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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Black and Blue: Jazz Stories

Black and Blue: Jazz Stories

Péan, Stanley
Homel, David

Paperback

General MusicJazzMusic Reference

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ISBN10: 1550656112
ISBN13: 9781550656114
Publisher: Vehicule Press
Published: Apr 21 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.04 Depth: 7.48
Language: English
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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