{"product_id":"black-and-blue-jazz-stories-9781550656114","title":"Black and Blue: Jazz Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor and radio personality \u003cb\u003eStanley P?an\u003c\/b\u003e is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets behind the scenes with anecdotes that tell much about the misunderstandings that have surrounded the music. How could French existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre have mixed up Afro-Canadian songwriter Shelton Brooks with the Jewish-American belter Sophie Tucker? What is the real story behind the searing classic \"Strange Fruit\" made immortal by Billie Holiday, who at first balked at performing it? Who knew that an Ohio housewife named Sadie Vimmerstedt was behind the revenge song \"I wanna be around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart?\" And since this is jazz, there is no shortage of sad ends: Bix Beiderbecke, Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, to name a few.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJazz is liberation music, from Fats Waller to Duke Ellington to John Coltrane who walked side by side with Martin Luther King with his piece \"Alabama.\" \u003cb\u003eP?an\u003c\/b\u003e shows how musicians like Miles Davis worked with the emerging voices of hip-hop to widen jazz's audience. The intricate crisscross between Black musical forms, from Marvin Gaye to the Last Poets is explored, as well as how the movies, Hollywood and European cinema alike, tried to use jazz, often whitening it in the process (with the exception of Spike Lee).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStanley Péan \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of eight novels for adult and young readers and seven short story collections. He has been piloting \"Quand le jazz est là\" every week night on ICI Musique, Radio-Canada's all-music radio network for the last thirteen years, building up the knowledge behind this book. \u003cb\u003eDavid Homel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nine novels and a memoir, as well as a series of books for younger readers co-written with Marie-Louise Gay. A prize-winning writer and translator, he has worked in documentary film, print, and radio journalism. He lives in Montreal.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vehicule Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50486654927122,"sku":"9781550656114","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_647700f5-84b5-4946-92e3-10859f195c10.jpg?v=1730432611","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-and-blue-jazz-stories-9781550656114","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}