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Waiting for Dizzy: Fourteen Jazz Portraits
Gene Lees
This is an informative chronicle on jazz and its celebrated artists. There are 14 essays drawn from Lees' own "Jazzletter". This book covers many artists from Bix Beiderbecke to Dizzy Gillespie and covers swing to be-bop, from the 1920s to the 1990s.
251 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 3, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780815410379 |
| Publishers | Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. |
| Pages | 251 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 308 g |
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