Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington - 21107404 lavender Illustrator: Rovina Cai

Illustrator: Rovina Cai

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and maintains well over 100 separate collections

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Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington - 21107404 lavender Illustrator: Rovina CaiThis is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong, orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth century America. What is far less known about these groundbreakers is that they were bound not just by their music or even the discrimination that they, like nearly all Black performers of their day, routinely encountered. Each defied and ultimately overcame racial boundaries by