Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930
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The setting is the Royal Gardens Cafe. It's dark, smoky. The smell of gin permeates the room. People are leaning over the balcony, their drinks spilling on the customers below. On stage, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong roll on and on, piling up choruses, the rhythm section building the beat until tables, chairs, walls, people, move with the rhythm. The time is the 1920s. The place is South Side Chicago, a town of dance halls and cabarets, Prohibition...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195064534
ISBN13:9780195064537
Release Date:May 1993
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.34 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"
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Authentic, good reading.
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Gave this to my Dad who grew up in the environment and it took him back. He loved it.
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