Title Statement |
The jazzmen: how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America / Larry Tye. |
Author |
Tye, Larry |
Publication |
New York: Mariner Books,[2024]©2024 |
Edition |
First edition. |
Extent of Item |
xviii, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates |
ISBN |
9780358380436 (hardcover) |
Other Number |
pr07401809 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-381) and index. |
Summary |
A 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. 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. 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. |
Subjects & Genres |
By Topic |
African American jazz musicians--Biography |
Jazz musicians--Biography--United States |
By Name |
Armstrong, Louis,1901-1971 |
Basie, Count,1904-1984 |
Ellington, Duke,1899-1974 |
By Genre |
Biographies |