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The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

Larry Tye

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Description:From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy , a sweeping group portrait of the pioneers and longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Satchmo Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers in America. 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. 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 so many black performers of their day, routinely encountered. Each defied and ultimately overcame racial boundaries not by waging war over every slight, which never would have worked in that Jim Crow era, but 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America. To get started finding The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy , a sweeping group portrait of the pioneers and longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Satchmo Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers in America. 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. 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 so many black performers of their day, routinely encountered. Each defied and ultimately overcame racial boundaries not by waging war over every slight, which never would have worked in that Jim Crow era, but 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America. To get started finding The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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