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  • Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

    de Brian Harker ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    For jazz historians, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings mark the first revolution in the history of a music riven by upheaval. Yet few traces of this revolution can be found in the historical record of the late 1920s, when the discs were made. Even black newspapers covered Armstrong as just one name among many, and descriptions of his playing, while laudatory, bear little ... Leer más

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  • Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

    de Brian Harker ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
    For jazz historians, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings mark the first revolution in the history of a music riven by upheaval. Yet few traces of this revolution can be found in the historical record of the late 1920s, when the discs were made. Even black newspapers covered Armstrong as just one name among many, and descriptions of his playing, while laudatory, bear little ... Leer más

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  • Sportin' Life

    John W. Bubbles, An American Classic

    de Brian Harker ...
    Series series Cultural Biographies
    John W. Bubbles was the ultimate song-and-dance man. A groundbreaking tap dancer, he provided inspiration to Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, and the Nicholas Brothers. His vaudeville team Buck and Bubbles captivated theater audiences for more than thirty years. Most memorably, in the role of Sportin' Life he stole the show in the original production of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, in the process ... Leer más

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    Sportin' Life

    John W. Bubbles, An American Classic

    de Brian Harker ...
    Narrado por Mirron Willis ...

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    John W. Bubbles was the ultimate song-and-dance man. A groundbreaking tap dancer, he provided inspiration to Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, and the Nicholas Brothers. His vaudeville team Buck and Bubbles captivated theater audiences for more than thirty years. Most memorably, in the role of Sportin' Life he stole the show in the original production of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, in the process ... Leer más

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