America's Most Influential Jazz Artists

America's Most Influential Jazz Artists*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingArt is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. Duke EllingtonLouis Armstrong once claimed that Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mineI look right in the heart of good old New OrleansIt has given me something to live for. This statement conjures an image which most anyone familiar with jazz music can

in his ideological Declaration of Independence

Mink has new golden moves to snag even more of the family fortune

who begins escaping into the magical world of Makeda's tiny parlor

2-point KJV Comfort Print

with actionable takeaways

Il Combattante and his comrades expose untruths

young woman who can't wait for the arrival of her little bundle of joy that's growing inside of her

Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history

grows with a kiss

battling envy

through their first three classic albums

and flying across the world alone for sex reassignment surgery at just eighteen