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Celebrating the Duke, and Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy, and other heroes

Title
Celebrating the Duke, and Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy, and other heroes / Ralph J. Gleason ; preface by Studs Terkel.
Author
Gleason, Ralph J.
Publication
Boston : Little, Brown, ©1975.

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Additional Authors
Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008
Description
xx, 280 pages : portraits; 22 cm
Alternative Title
Celebrating the Duke
Subject
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
  • Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
  • Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
  • Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937
  • Jazz > History and criticism
  • Jazz musicians > Biography
  • Jazz
  • Jazz musicians
Genre/Form
  • jazz.
  • Biographies.
  • Bop (Music)
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Jazz.
  • Bebop (Musique)
Note
  • "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Discography: p. 267-271.
Contents
Jazz : Black art/American art -- Heroes. Bessie Smith ; Louis Armstrong ; Jimmie Lunceford ; Billie Holiday : Lady Day ; Pres : Lester Young ; Charlie "Bird" Parker ; John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ; John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet ; Carmen McRae ; John Coltrane ; Miles Davis ; The death of Albert Ayler -- The Duke. Farewell to the DUke ; A Ducal calendar 1952-1974 ; Coda : the piano player.
ISBN
  • 0316315850
  • 9780316315852
LCCN
75015685
OCLC
  • ocm01418782
  • 1418782
  • SCSB-14690846
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library