You Can't Steal a Gift

You Can't Steal a Gift
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0803280343
ISBN-13 : 9780803280342
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Book Synopsis You Can't Steal a Gift by : Gene Lees

Download or read book You Can't Steal a Gift written by Gene Lees and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 he 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.


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