The Jazzmen Enamel pin

The Jazzmen Enamel pinHow Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America Paperback BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Music This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth century America. Duke Ellington, the grandson of slaves who was christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, was a man whose story is as layered and nuanced as his name suggests and whose music

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she loses her appetite

From their first charged glance at the summer's hottest party

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Using a variety of poetic forms

She has phenomenal friends

and in a mythic kingdom in his mind

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an author’s note

behind closed doors

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of violence—and shows how Lolly’s inventive spirit helps him build a life with firm foundations and open doors