Author and radio personality Stanley Péan is a jazz scholar who
takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the
music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets
behind the scenes with anecdotes that tell much about the
misunderstandings that have surrounded the music. How could French
existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre have mixed up Afro-Canadian
songwriter Shelton Brooks with the Jewish-American belter Sophie
Tucker? What is the real story behind the searing classic
“Strange Fruit” made immortal by Billie Holiday, who at first
balked at performing it? Who knew that an Ohio housewife named
Sadie Vimmerstedt was behind the revenge song “I wanna be around
to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart?” And since
this is jazz, there is no shortage of sad ends: Bix Beiderbecke,
Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, to name a few.
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