Dangerous Rhythms

Jazz and the Underworld

New Hardback Illustrated

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Jazz musicians moving from the racism of the South in the early 20th century were welcomed in the mob-run nightclubs and brothels of Chicago and New York. This ground-breaking study investigates the uneasy links between gangsters such as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano and jazz greats including Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday, before following the efforts of the Civil Rights generation to transcend them. Slightly off-mint and felt-tip mark on upper trimmed edge.

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