WBAI-FM Upcoming Program
Leonard Lopate at Large

Tue, May 7, 2024 1:00 PM

LARRY TYE ON THE JAZZMEN

Join us for conversation from the New York Times bestselling author Larry Tye for a portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet. This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro Jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth-century America. 

Based on more than 250 interviews, join us when Larry Tye brings together research from the history of Black America in the early-to-mid 1900s through the singular lens of the country’s most gifted, engaging, and enduring African-American musicians on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

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