Books about Jazz Musicians of the 1920s
This list consists of books by or about jazz musicians of the 1920s in the Chicago music scene. My novel trilogy Medicine for the Blues features an ambitious young jazz piano player whose dream is to go to Chicago. So I did a good deal of research into musicians of the era. These are some of my favorite books by authors who look back on the early days of jazz with love and nostalgia. They are White musicians who loved the music played by Negro musicians and took up that cause with religious fervor.
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