Celebrating The Duke: And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy And Other Heroes
Author:   Ralph Gleason ,  Ira Gitler ,  Studs Terkel
Publisher:   Hachette Books
ISBN:  

9780306806452


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   22 August 1995
Format:   Paperback
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Celebrating The Duke: And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy And Other Heroes


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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.

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Author:   Ralph Gleason ,  Ira Gitler ,  Studs Terkel
Publisher:   Hachette Books
Imprint:   Da Capo Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.342kg
ISBN:  

9780306806452


ISBN 10:   0306806452
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   22 August 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Jazz and rock critic, founding editor of Rolling Stone, producer, disc jockey, teacher, and vice-president of Fantasy Records, Ralph J. Gleason (1917-1975) was the author of Jam Sessions and The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound.

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