All posts tagged "jazz"
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African American
Book Review: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randall Sandke
September 21, 2022Sandke offers no critical commentary about this piece of advice that was given Armstrong after he...
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African American
Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
August 2, 2022The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the...
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African American
Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
July 26, 2022For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...