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The jazzmen : how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America / Cover Image Book

The jazzmen : how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America

Jazz men : (other title)
Tye, Larry (author.).

Summary: "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 nearly all Black performers of their day, routinely encountered. Each defied and ultimately overcame racial boundaries 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."--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780358380436
  • ISBN: 035838043X
  • Physical Description: print
    xviii, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Mariner Books, [2024]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
part I. Setting the stage. Satchmo's battlefield ; The Count's shrouded roots in Red Bank ; Duke's capital experience -- part II. Musical lives: Nightspots ; Life on the rocky road ; Getting there ; Setting the themes ; The language of jazz ; On center stage -- part III. It's an ensemble: The sidemen ; Side women ; Managers and mobsters ; Critical audiences and professional critics -- part IV. Offstage: Family unfriendly ; Mistresses and misogyny ; Keeping the faith ; Cravings and dependencies ; Toilet truths, food fetishes, and other medical matters ; Follow the money -- part V. Race matters: Artists and entertainers ; Resetting the themes ; Breakthrough battles ; Overseas ambassadors -- part VI. Last acts: Long-lived ; Last days and lasting memories -- Epilogue: Legacies.

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Subject:
Ellington, Duke 1899-1974
Armstrong, Louis 1901-1971
Basie, Count 1904-1984
African American jazz musicians Biography
Jazz musicians United States Biography
Genre:
Biographies.

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