The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
English | ISBN: 035838043X | 2024 | EPUB | 416 pages | 21 MB
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.
Duke Ellington, the grandson of slaves who was christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, was a man whose story is as layered and nuanced as his name suggests and whose music transcended category.