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An extraordinary collection of revealing, personal interviews with fourteen jazz music legends
During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J. Gleason recorded ...
The definitive biography of the soul legend James Brown by National Book Award-winning novelist James McBrideThe music of James Brown was almost a genre in ...
A biography of Louis Armstrong's prolific years in the 1920s and early 1930s, this book examines the cultural forces that shaped his life and ...
Saxophone virtuoso Charlie "Bird" Parker began playing professionally in his early teens, became a heroin addict at 16, changed the course of music, and then ...
Herbie Hancock is a true icon of modern music: a jazz pianist and composer whose illustrious career has spanned seven decades and 14 Grammy Awards ...
Released to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the coolest and best- known label in jazz, this book celebrates over seven decades of extraordinary music from ...
Winner of the Prose Award for Humanities
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award
Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book ...
Forged in the Dustbowl of the 1930s, in an America crippled by the Great World Recession, this humble man found solace in song, and soon ...
At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique new period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of ...
A year-by-year history of people and events, The Chronicle of Jazz tells the whole story of jazz music and its personalities. Each chronologically arranged section ...
