Szwed, John
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Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
$24.00 Add to cart“Revelatory . . . one of the most briskly revealing pieces of jazz biography that I’ve read.” –Richard Brody, The New Yorker
When Billie Holiday first stepped into a recording studio in November 193- Author: Szwed, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0143107968
- Language: English
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Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
$25.95 Add to cartConsidered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra-aka Herman Blount-was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn…. [more below]
- Author: Szwed, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1478008415
- Language: English
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Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
$22.00 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times‘ Dwight Garner
“The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith’s- Author: Szwed, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338107
- Language: English
