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

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

1st Da Capo Press Edition

Paperback (22 Aug 1995)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780306806452
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Da Capo Press
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Edition
DEWEY: 781.6509
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 280
Weight: 500g
Height: 213mm
Width: 137mm
Spine width: 17mm