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Celebrating The Duke
And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy And Other Heroes
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Trade Paperback $21.99 $28.99 CADThis item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around August 22, 1995. This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control.
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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 Terkel
New introduction by Ira Gitler
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- On Sale
- Aug 22, 1995
- Page Count
- 304 pages
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780306806452
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