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Author Atria, Travis, author.

Title Better days will come again : the life of Arthur Briggs, jazz genius of Harlem, Paris, and a nazi prison camp / Travis Atria
Published Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2020

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Contents Front Cover; Front Flap; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface by Barbara Pierrat-Briggs; Part I: Psalm 137; Part II: Job 12:15; Part III: Ecclesiastes 4:1; A Note from the Author; Epilogue by James Briggs Murray; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Flap: About the Author; Back Cover
Summary "By the 1930s, Briggs was considered "the Louis Armstrong of Paris," and was the peer of the greatest names of his time, from Josephine Baker to Django Reinhardt. In 1940, he was arrested and sent to the prison camp at Saint Denis. Based on groundbreaking research and including unprecedented access to Briggs's oral memoir, this is a crucial document of jazz history, a fast-paced epic, and an entirely original tale of survival"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Briggs, Arthur, 1901-1991.
SUBJECT Briggs, Arthur, 1901-1991 fast
Subject Trumpet players -- Biography
Jazz musicians -- Biography
Nazi concentration camp inmates -- France -- Biography
Nazi concentration camp inmates
Jazz musicians
Trumpet players
France
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780914090113
0914090119
9780914090236
0914090232