The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
by Tye, Larry
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- ISBN 10
- 035838043X
- ISBN 13
- 9780358380436
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NY: Mariner Books, 2024. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING w/DJ in mylar. Features: Price on Product, Illustrated, Bibliography, Index. Physical Info: 1.57" H x 9.06" L x 5.98" W (1.25 lbs) 416 pages. Secure ship w/track #. This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth-century America. Duke Ellington, the grandson of slaves who was christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, was a man whose story is as layered and nuanced as his name suggests and whose music transcended category. Louis Daniel Armstrong was born in a New Orleans slum so tough it was called The Battlefield and, at age seven, got his first musical instrument, a ten-cent tin horn that drew buyers to his rag-peddling wagon and set him on the road to elevating jazz into a pulsating force for spontaneity and freedom. William James Basie, too, grew up in a world unfamiliar to white fans--the son of a coachman and laundress who dreamed of escaping every time the traveling carnival swept into town, and who finally engineered his getaway with help from Fats Waller. What is far less known about these groundbreakers is that they were bound not just by their music or even the discrimination that they, like nearly all Black performers of their day, routinely encountered. Each defied and ultimately overcame racial boundaries by opening America's eyes and souls to the magnificence of their music. In the process they wrote the soundtrack for the civil rights movement. Based on more than 250 interviews, this exhaustively researched book brings alive the history of Black America in the early-to-mid 1900s through the singular lens of the country's most gifted, engaging, and enduring African-American musicians.
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- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
- Author
- Tye, Larry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_boards
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 035838043X
- ISBN 13
- 9780358380436
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2024
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