The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, And Count Basie Transformed AmericaFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping group portrait of the pioneers and longtime kings of jazzDuke Ellington, Satchmo Armstrong, and Count Basiewho, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers in America. This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the