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Jazz and the Underworld

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An edition of Dangerous Rhythms (2022)

Dangerous Rhythms

Jazz and the Underworld

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Tales from the intersection of organized crime and jazz from Louis Armstrong to Frank Sinatra.

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English
Pages
437

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Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
2022, HarperCollins Publishers
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Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
2022, HarperCollins Publishers
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First Sentence

"At the age of fourteen, Louis Armstrong of New Orleans was a potent combination of streetwise youth and naïve back-alley urchin with a song in his heart."

Table of Contents

Intro
Page 1
Part One. Major Chord
1. Shadow of the Demimonde
Page 13
2. Sicilian Message
Page 40
3. Kansas City Stomp
Page 62
4. Disfiguration
Page 89
5. Birth of the Hipster
Page 113
6. Friends in Dark Places
Page 137
7. Down on the Plantation
Page 163
Part Two. Flatted Fifth
8. The Crooner
Page 189
9. Swing Street
Page 219
10. “Jazz Provides Background for Death”
Page 245
11. The Ghost of Chano Pozo
Page 271
12. Fear and Loathing at the Copacabana
Page 297
13. The Muck and the Mud
Page 327
14. Twilight of the Underworld
Page 350
Coda
Page 372
Acknowledgments
Page 377
Notes
Page 381
Sources
Page 409
Index
Page 421

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
2022

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.4/84250973—dc23/eng/20220315
Library of Congress
ML3918.J39E65 2022

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
437p
Number of pages
437
Weight
766 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL38151136M
ISBN 13
9780063031425

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