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Pages: 37
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In this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional "This Old Man" gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era's best musicians take center stage. The tuneful t
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Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-04 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press

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Autobiography of jazz elder statesman Frank “Doc” Adams, highlighting his role in Birmingham, Alabama’s, historic jazz scene and tracing his personal adve
The Jazz Man
Language: en
Pages: 52
Authors: Mary Hays Weik
Categories: African Americans
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Nine-year-old Zeke, who lives in Harlem, listens to the wonderful music coming from the jazz musician's piano across the court and escapes for a while from the
Hear Me Talkin' to Ya
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Pages: 463
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In this marvelous oral history, the words of such legends as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Billy Holiday trace the birth,
Norman Granz
Language: en
Pages: 687
Authors: Tad Hershorn
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-17 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that," Norman Granz told Tad