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You Can't Steal a Gift - Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat (Hardcover)
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You Can't Steal a Gift - Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat (Hardcover)
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In this wise, stimulating, and deeply personal book, an eminent
jazz chronicler writes of his encounters with four great black
musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton, and Nat
"King" Cole. Equal parts memoir, oral history, and commentary, each
of the main chapters is a minibiography, weaving together
conversations Gene Lees had with the musicians and their families,
friends, and associates over a period of several decades.
Lees begins the book with an essay that tells of his introduction
to the world of jazz and his reaction to racism in the United
States when he emigrated from Canada in 1955. The underlying theme
in his book is the impact racism had on the four musicians' lives
and careers and their determination to overcome it. As Lees writes,
"No white person can even begin to understand the black experience
in the United States. . . . All of the four jazz makers] are men
who had every reason to embrace bitterness--and didn't."
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