Swingin' on Central Avenue : African American jazz in Los Angeles /

The development of jazz and swing in the African-American community in Los Angeles in the years before the second World War received a boost from the arrival of a significant numbers of musicians from Chicago and the southwestern states. In Swingin' on Central: African-American Jazz in Los Ange...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vacher, Peter, 1937- (Author)
Corporate Author: Joseph B. Glossberg Fund
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Andrew "Andy" Blakeney
  • Gideon Joseph "Gid" Honore, Jr
  • George Robert Orendorff
  • Nathaniel Jack "Monk" McFay
  • Floyd Payne Turnham, Jr
  • Betty Hall Jones
  • Mclure "Red Mack" Morris
  • Caughey Wesley Roberts II
  • Chester C. Lane
  • Isadore Leonidas "Monte" Easter
  • William King "Billy" Hadnott
  • Norman "Norm" Leland Bowden
  • John Richard "Streamline" Ewing
  • Charles L. "Chuck" Thomas, Jr
  • Jesse John Sailes
  • "Red" Minor W. Robinson.