Better Days Will Come Again
The Life of Arthur Briggs, Jazz Genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi Prison Camp
Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2020]
Format: Book
Description: xi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"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 groundbreakingresearch 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.
Subjects:
Briggs, Arthur, 1901-1991.
Trumpet players -- Biography.
Jazz musicians -- Biography.
Internment camp inmates -- France -- Biography.
Nazi concentration camp inmates -- France -- Biography.
Briggs, Arthur, 1901-1991.
Trumpet players -- Biography.
Jazz musicians -- Biography.
Internment camp inmates -- France -- Biography.
Nazi concentration camp inmates -- France -- Biography.
ISBN:
0914090100
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Briggs, Arthur | St. Andrews Indoors | Biography | In |
"An A Cappella book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-283) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-283) and index.