Celebrating The Duke And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy And Other Heroes
, by Gleason, Ralph J.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780306806452 | 0306806452
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/22/1995
Celebrating the Dukeoffers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes and heroines, 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.