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Sophisticated Ladies: the Great Women of Jazz Hardcover - 2007
by Gourse, Leslie
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
This handsome volume contains the stories of fourteen fabulous women,blues and jazz singers all. Their art reflected their backgrounds oftensmall, poverty-ridden towns in the South and the influence of musicianswho preceded them. Each singer adapted the culture of jazz and wove itinto her own personal style. Jazz historian Leslie Gourse's biographies ofBessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Mildred Bailey, Mabel Mercer, Billie Holiday,Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan,Betty Carter, Rosemary Clooney, Cassandra Wilson, and Diana Krall offera fascinating glimpse into American history and a continually evolvingmusical genre.
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- Title Sophisticated Ladies: the Great Women of Jazz
- Author Gourse, Leslie
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Illustrated.
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 64
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dutton Books, New York
- Date 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0525471987.G
- ISBN 9780525471981 / 0525471987
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 10.24 x 7.76 x 0.45 in (26.01 x 19.71 x 1.14 cm)
- Ages 09 to 12 years
- Grade levels 4 - 7
- Reading level 1000
- Library of Congress subjects Women jazz singers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006014852
- Dewey Decimal Code B