The First Century
Giddins, Gary
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Hardcover
702 pages
11 Line Drawings
Published: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0195076753
The whole history and range of jazz, from its origin and early days up to the late 1990s. This text illuminates the lives major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade style trumpet playing to Frank Sinatra's intimate crooning. Tributes