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8/16/24 Author Larry Tye

Larry Tye is the author off The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America.. He joins us this hour to discuss a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet

 
Larry Tye is the author off The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America.. He joins us this hour to discuss a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet

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