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Celebrating the Duke: And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy and Other Heroes (PB) (1995)

Celebrating the Duke: And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy and Other Heroes (PB) (1995)

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If you want to know what real jazz criticism is, read Celebrating the Duke. It is a fitting memorial to an outstanding critic and writer.--Jazz Journal

Celebrating the Duke offers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes and heroines, including Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and a rich cache of writings on America's greatest composer, the Duke himself.
Foreword by Studs TerkelNew introduction by Ira Gitler

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Author:
Ralph J. Gleason
ISBN 10:
0306806452
Pages:
304
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Publication Date:
August 22, 1995
Binding:
Paperback
Weight:
0.75lbs

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