The jazzmen : how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America
A portrait of the longtime kings of jazz -- Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie -- who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet. 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. Based on more than 250 interviews, this exhaustively...
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