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

by Patrick Burke

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 Parker, as well as to innumerable professional musicians whose names aren't quite so well known. Together, these musicians and their audiences defied the traditional border between serious art and commercial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226080714
• ISBN13: 9780226080710
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"