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Deffaa, Chip

 
9780306809194: Blue Rhythms

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”Somebody has to pay the dues,” says LaVern Baker. Here are the remarkable stories of six dazzlingly talented performers who blazed the R & B trail—the story of the performers' music and also of their struggle against racism and financial exploitation: Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker, two of the most popular female black singers of the 1950s; Little Jimmy Scott, whom Madonna calls the only singer who ever really made her cry; Charles Brown, master of the “club blues” style; Floyd Dixon, a more rambunctious fellow-traveler; and the earthy, urbane Jimmy Witherspoon, who recorded some of the biggest R & B hits ever.

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Chip Deffaa, jazz critic for the New York Post, has written seven other books, including Voices of the Jazz Age: Profiles of Eight Vintage Jazzmen and Swing Legacy. A winner of the ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award, he contributes regularly to Entertainment Weekly, JazzTimes, and Crescendo.


Chip Deffaa, jazz critic for the New York Post, has written seven other books, including Voices of the Jazz Age: Profiles of Eight Vintage Jazzmen and Swing Legacy. A winner of the ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award, he contributes regularly to Entertainment Weekly, JazzTimes, and Crescendo.

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9780252022036: Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues

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ISBN 10:  0252022033 ISBN 13:  9780252022036
Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 1996
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