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The Great Jazz Artists

by James Lincoln Collier · 1977

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Surveys the lives and music of such well-known jazz performers as Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and others.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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