Dangerous Rhythms By T.J. English
Feb 24, 2024 
Dangerous Rhythms By T.J. English PDF book free download from here. Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld by T.J. English is an epic and scintillating narrative that explores the interconnected worlds of jazz music and organized crime in 20th-century America. This captivating book sheds light on the symbiotic relationship between mobsters and musicians during the first half of the century.
Major players like Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, and Charlie “Lucky” Luciano provided opportunities for artists such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald by offering them stages in their clubs. However, at the heart of this relationship lay a festering racial inequity, as most musicians were African American while the clubs and means of production were owned by white men.
Dangerous Rhythms By T.J. English Book Info:
- Publisher: William Morrow
- Published: August 2, 2022
- ISBN: 9780063031418
- Pages: 419
- Size: 25.2
