You Can't Steal a Gift
Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat
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Author
Contributions
- Nat Hentoff (Foreword) - Contributor
Publication
2004-03-01 - Bison Books
Language
English
Word Count
67,250 words, Guess
Page Count
269 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7906056M
- ISBN-139780803280342
- ISBN-100803280343
- OCLC Control Number53284973
- OCLC Control Numberyoucantstealgift00leesg
and 2 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003023119
- Goodreads309344
Classifications
- LCCML394 .L393 2004
Description
"You Can't Steal a Gift is about the impact of American racism on America's greatest gift to the world of music - jazz. In a work that combines memoir, oral history, and commentary, Gene Lees has crafted minibiographies of four great black musicians whom the author knew well - Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton, and Nat "King" Cole. Lees writes of them, "All are men who had every reason to embrace bitterness...and didn't."" "When Lees left Montreal to become the music and drama critic of the Louisville Times in 1955, he was shocked by the racism and segregation he found in the United States. In jazz he found a community of like-minded souls who freely shared their gifts with all lovers of music, regardless of race and condition."--BOOK JACKET.
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