The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America BOTY_2025 First released in 1975

First released in 1975

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The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America BOTY_2025 First released in 1975From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazzDuke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basiewho, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet. This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the