Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington - 21107404

Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington - 21107404This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong, orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth century America. What is far less known about these groundbreakers is that they were bound not just by their music or even the discrimination that they, like nearly all Black performers of their day, routinely encountered. Each defied and ultimately overcame racial boundaries by

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