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Terry ;s book is conversational in style but blunt and exacting in detail about people and dates; he holds nothing back. 20090429_clark_terry_span3. . ;Rhapsody in Black: The Life and Music of Roy Orbison ; by John Kruth; Backbeat Books (256 pages, $27.99). Hughes also wrote a number of books on history and black biography for younger readers, including Famous Negro Heroes of America, which treated such historical figures as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. There ;s a mechanic, a jazz guitarist, a dance teacher, many students and retirees; they say shortsighted or credulous or profound or trivial things, about Tina Turner and the Grateful Dead and gospel singing and Grover Washington Jr. I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and. Terry is one of the last living links to a rich legacy of African-American culture and jazz dating back to black minstrel shows, the territory bands of the Midwest, the legendary big bands of Count Basie and Duke Ellington, and the studio production orchestras in New York. (Author). Available worldwide. It is not a straight forward jazz chronicle but the story is unusual in itself and you will find information, indeed interpretation, not found in conventional jazz books. 12) Biographies and autobiographies of pop musicians. "They took the lemons fate / life. He is the author of Views from the Back of the Bus and An Autobiography of Black Jazz, among many other books. Your mega summer reading list: 180+ books recommended by . W