Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street by Patrick Burke

Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street

Patrick Burke

328 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

informative slow-paced
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Between the mid-1930s and the late ’40s, the center of the jazz world was a two-block stretch of 52nd Street in Manhattan. Dozens of crowded basement clubs between Fifth and Seventh avenues played host to legends such as Billie Holiday and Charlie...

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