Jazz musicians - United States - Biography
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Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
$18.99 Add to cart“In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who’d s… [more below]
- Author: Armstrong, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 22 1986
- ISBN10: 0306802767
- Language: English
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Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
$24.99 Add to cart“The best biography of any jazz musician that we have. Bird Lives! will stand for a long time as a major source of information and illumination not only of the great musician with whom it deals but of… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0306806797
- Language: English
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Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
$23.99 Add to cartA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Billy Strayhorn (1915-67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such sta- Author: Hajdu, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 26 1997
- ISBN10: 0865475121
- Language: English
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Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus
$18.00 Add to cartBass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated, wild, funny, demonic, anguished, shocki… [more below]
- Author: Mingus, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 03 1991
- ISBN10: 0679737618
- Language: English
