Name: The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
Brand: Larry Tye

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9780358380436

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Format Books US

Hardback

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Limited edition

Release date

2024-05-07

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Supplier US

Harpe­r Col­lins

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Sales:8.875

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Larry Tye

Genre US

Jazz

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Mariner Books

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<b>From the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;bestselling author of&nbsp;Satchel&nbsp;and&nbsp;Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet.</b>

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 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.

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

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Discover The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America by Larry Tye. A spellbinding portrait of the kings of jazz, overcoming racism to become the most popular entertainers. From Mariner Books.