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Jazz: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed American – Virtual Program

Diversity and Inclusion, Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Online Event

January 16 | 10:30 am - 12:00 pm  

Jewish Literary Voices: A Federation Series in collaboration with The Jewish Book Council Honoring the life and accomplishments of MLK and other civil rights changemakers, join reporter Larry Tye for a discussion of his book, The Jazzmen which looks mainly at these three maestros’ lives off the bandstand, and how they wrote the soundtrack for the civil rights revolution. It also explores the Black-Jewish alliance of old—one where each of these African-American bandleaders had a Jewish manager and bandmates —and how that might offer a model for today.

How Jazz musicians transformed American

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Online

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Jewish Federation of the Berkshires

Phone:
(413) 442-4360, ext. 11
Email:
astern@jewishberkshires.org
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