Author of "Jazzmen," a ground-breaking biography of maestros Ellington, Armstrong and Basie and how they wrote the soundtrack for the Civil Rights movement.
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"The Jazzmen" reviewed this week in the Wall Street Journal: "Mr. Tye has an easy way of telling a story, a knack for characterization and a pacing that feels right . . . Through the marvel of their music, these jazzmen live forever."
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Great talking this morning with @MorningEdition 's @MichelMcQMartin about jazz greats #DukeEllington, #LouisArmstrong and #CountBasie, three unsung heroes of the Civil Rights movement tinyurl.com/5f7a99b8
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Special Book Talk Event: Larry Tye Discusses “The Jazzmen"
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Today is #internationaljazzday? Celebrate by exploring the lives and music of revolutionary musicians whose music shaped twentieth-century America and beyond 🎷
Check out The Jazzmen by Larry Tye and my new novel, Ella — both on sale 5/7!
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“While African-American jazzmen had a hard time on the road, be it finding accommodations or earning a living wage, African-American jazzwomen had it tougher.” @LarryTye on the triumphs and struggles of Black women in 20th-century jazz.
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While you read @LarryTye THE JAZZMEN, amplify your experience and listen along to some of the music that inspired the book at the playlist below!
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Happy Publication Day to BITS AND PIECES by Whoopi Goldberg, WHEN THE MOON HATCHED by Sarah A. Parker, THE JAZZMEN by @LarryTye, NONNA MARIA AND THE CASE OF THE LOST TREASURE by @LCarcaterra, THE UNVANQUISHED by @combathistorian, and ASK by @jeffreywetzler !! 👏📚😍🤓📖🥳
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"What Edward Kennedy Ellington should be most remembered for is the low-pitched yet assuredly subversive way he opened America’s ears and souls to the magnificence of his melodies," @LarryTye writes. wapo.st/4bcel4f
To be released on May 7, 2024, "The Jazzmen." The book tells the story of how maestros Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie overcame racial boundaries and wrote the soundtrack for the Civil Rights movement. tinyurl.com/hmmdxrxz
Great talking with the incomparable @JudyWoodruff yesterday on the @NewsHour about parallels between #McCarthy and current politics. tinyurl.com/y4loyahr
How to hold book talks during a pandemic: in a baseball stadium with socially-distanced and masked attendees. In today's @bostonglobe: "Selling books in a pandemic, and a brush with humanity." tinyurl.com/y5p474y2
Four Connecticut stood up to Joseph McCarthy, political bully of the 1950s, leaving a proud legacy of courage. ctinsider.com/politics/stamf…
Wonderful being on @BosPublicRadio with @marjeryeagan and @jimbraude talking about the throughline from Senator Joseph McCarthy to Donald Trump tinyurl.com/y22z8d23
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In light of the latest fascist fantasy from the Grifter-in-Chief and Roy Cohn fanboy, reposting the @WORTnews Madison BookBeat conversation with @LarryTye about his excellent and timely "Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy." wortfm.org/larry-tye-demagog…
By #LouisMenand in the @NewYorker "When [McCarthy] didn’t have any facts to embellish, he made them up. He found that, if he just kept on repeating himself, people would figure that he must be onto something." tinyurl.com/y4c6arj2
Myth #3: Contrary to the myth that #SenatorJosephMcCarthy helped purge the government of Soviet spies, in fact, "McCarthy’s bid to root...out [spying] was largely a fraud and a hoax." tinyurl.com/y376rpeu
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"There's nobody in American history who strikes me as more amoral than Roy Cohn," @LarryTye says. Cohn was gay and Jewish, Tye adds, yet helped McCarthy target and attack both of those groups.