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Author Larry Tye on The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

JCC of Central NJ
1391 Martine Avenue
Scotch Plains, NJ

Wendy Connolly
908-889-8800 x207
[email protected]

AUTHOR WILL BE VIRTUAL

The Jazzmen looks mainly at these three maestros’ lives off the bandstand, and how they wrote the soundtrack for the civil rights revolution. It also explores the Black-Jewish alliance of old – one where each of these African-American bandleaders had a Jewish manager and bandmates – and how that might offer a model for today. Proud partner of the Jewish Book Council.

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