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The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Jazz
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- A concise history of jazz
- The noteworthy composers and musicians, from Jelly Roll Morton and Thelonious Monk to Miles Davis and Charles Mingus
- Major performers from Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald to Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington
- Classic songs and compositions
- The most influential recordings of all time
- A complete guide to jazz terminology and lingo
- Valuable resources for the Curious Listener
Loren Schoenberg has been a featured tenor saxophone soloist with the big bands of Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Health, and Buck Clayton. A faculty member at the Essentially Ellington Band Director’s Academy in Snowmass, Colorado, he was recently named the program director of Jazz Aspen Snowmass Jazz Colony summer program. He was advisor to Ken Burns’s Jazz Project.US
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