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Poised to become a jazz classic, Visions of Jazz: The First Century contains 79 chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade style trumpet playing to Frank Sinatra's intimate crooning, jazz critic Gary Giddins continually... read more

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First Sentence

Shortly after I began writing about jazz, in the early '70s, I had the occasion to visit a formidable English jazz historian.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Gary Giddins (Author)

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  1. jazz
  2. jazz history
  3. jazz writings
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