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Hardback. Etat : Like New. From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping group portrait of the pioneers and longtime kings of jazz?Duke Ellington, Satchmo Armstrong, and Count Basie?who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers in America.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.Duke Ellington, the grandson of slaves who was christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, was a man whose story is as layered and nuanced as his name suggests and whose music transcended category.Louis Daniel Armstrong was born in a New Orleans slum so tough it was called The Battlefield and, at age seven, got his first musical instrument, a ten-cent tin horn that drew buyers to his rag-peddling wagon and set him on the road to elevating jazz into a pulsating force for spontaneity and freedom.William James Basie, too, grew up in a world unfamiliar to white fans?the son of a coachman and laundress who dreamed of escaping every time the traveling carnival swept into town, and who finally engineered his getaway with help from Fats Waller.What is far less known about these groundbreakers is that they were bound not just by their music or even the discrimination that they, like so many black performers of their  day, routinely encountered. Each defied and ultimately overcame racial boundaries not by waging war over every slight, which never would have worked in that Jim Crow era, but by opening America?s eyes and souls to the magnificence of their music. In the process they wrote the soundtrack for the civil rights movement.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.…

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Hardback. Etat : Good. The late Count Basie is one of the jazz immortals. The master of swing, whose beat was the subtlest and supplest of all the bandleaders, Basie featured some of the great soloists in jazz history while he sat unobtrusively at the piano, keeping time with his unmatched rhythm section, showing off the surging power of his brass players, and commenting wittily with a single chord or phrase. A man and musician of reserve and modesty, Basie nonetheless will always be a landmark for his won achievements and for the jazz musicians who passed through his band. In this sociable and pioneering oral history of Basie and his band, Stanley Dance talks with the Count himself, Jimmy Rushing, Buddy Tate, Buck Clayton, Joe Williams, Jay McShann, Jo Jones, Dicky Wells, Lester Young, and a dozen others, who reminisce about each other, Kansas City jazz, and their legendary peers Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker. With a rich flow of anecdote, opinion, and biographical information--and with striking photographs--this history both documents and assesses the legacy of Basie for American music.…

Hardback. Etat : Like New. From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping group portrait of the pioneers and longtime kings of jazz?Duke Ellington, Satchmo Armstrong, and Count Basie?who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers in America.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.Duke Ellington, the grandson of slaves who was christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, was a man whose story is as layered and nuanced as his name suggests and whose music transcended category.Louis Daniel Armstrong was born in a New Orleans slum so tough it was called The Battlefield and, at age seven, got his first musical instrument, a ten-cent tin horn that drew buyers to his rag-peddling wagon and set him on the road to elevating jazz into a pulsating force for spontaneity and freedom.William James Basie, too, grew up in a world unfamiliar to white fans?the son of a coachman and laundress who dreamed of escaping every time the traveling carnival swept into town, and who finally engineered his getaway with help from Fats Waller.What is far less known about these groundbreakers is that they were bound not just by their music or even the discrimination that they, like so many black performers of their  day, routinely encountered. Each defied and ultimately overcame racial boundaries not by waging war over every slight, which never would have worked in that Jim Crow era, but by opening America?s eyes and souls to the magnificence of their music. In the process they wrote the soundtrack for the civil rights movement.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.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : Good. A Fair copy in a Good dust wrapper of a former library copy of ".this delightful and invaluable oral history, Stanley Dance has compiled a portrait of the famous bandleader--and of the men and women around him." Black boards have crisp silver lettering on spine. Tape removal marks remain on black boards. Library stamps in black ink on top and bottom page edgings. Dust wrapper is not price clipped. Wear and sunning to top edge of dust wrapper. Small tear along spine to dust wrapper. Smudging near base of spine where the spine label was. Creasing and a slight curl to bottom corners of boards and dust wrapper. Rear flyleaf has been removed by tearing along the spine. Library label in black ink to front flyleaf. Library information embossed on Title page. Library cataloger's notes in blue ballpoint & black ink on Dedication page. Spotting to side page edgings. 399 pages. 48 illustrations. "Contents: Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1: Count Basie (bandleader and piano); Jimmy Rushing (vocalist); Lester "Prez" Young (tenor saxophone and clarinet); Buck Clayton (trumpet and arranger); Jo Jones (drums); Eddie Durham (trombone, guitar, and arranged); Earle Warren (alto saxophone); Dicky Wells (trombone and arranger); Harry "Sweets" Edison (trumpet); Buddy Tate (tenor saxophone and clarinet); Helen Humes (vocalist); Snooky Young (trumpet); Joe Newman (trumpet); Preston Love (alto saxophone); Marshall Royal (alto saxophone and clarinet); Lockjaw Davis (tenor saxophone); Frank Wess (flute, saxophones, and arranger); Frank Foster (tenor saxophone and arranger); Joe Williams (vocalist); Al Grey (trombone); Sonny Cohn (trumpet); Eric Dixon (tenor saxophone, flute, and arranger); Bobby Plater (alto saxophone and arranger); Richard Boone (trombone and vocal); Nat Pierce (bandleader, piano, and arranger); Part 2: Jay McShann (bandleader, piano, and vocal); Gene Ramey (bass); Gus Johnson, Jr. (drums); Paul Quinichette (tenor saxophone); Jimmy Witherspoon (vocalist); Eddie Barefield (alto and tenor saxophones and clarinet); Leo "Snub" Mosley (trombone and slide saxophone); Sir Charles Thompson (piano); Melvin Moore (vocalist); Appendices: Some Basie Itineraries; Selected Discography; Bibliography; Index"From rear dust wrapper:"In this book, Stanley Dance has done for Count Basie's band what he previously did for Duke Ellington's and mine. He tells its story in the words of the guys who played in it, and I don't think there is a better way. It has certainly made a lot of yesterdays come alive for me."--Earl Hines"Description: xxi, 399 p., [12] leaves of plates. : ill. ; 24 cm.".…

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