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You Can’t Steal a Gift is about the impact of American racism on America’s greatest gift to the world of music—jazz. In a work that combines memoir, oral history, and commentary, Gene Lees has crafted minibiographies of four great black musicians whom he knew well—Dizzy Gillespie, Clark... read more

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  1. Gene Lees (Author)
 

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