Celebrating The Duke - And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy And Other Heroes (Paperback, 1st Da Capo Press ed)

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), from its founding fathers to the post-bebop generation, 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.

General

Imprint:	Da Capo Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1995
First published:	September 1995
Authors:	Ralph Gleason
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	304
Edition:	1st Da Capo Press ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-80645-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Jazz Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Blues Books > Music > Composers & musicians Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Blues Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Jazz
LSN:	0-306-80645-2
Barcode:	9780306806452

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