num_pages: 73
description: An introduction to jazz music by one of our finest writers. Langston Hughes, celebrated poet and longtime jazz enthusiast, wrote The First Book of Jazz as a homage to the music that inspired him. The roll of African drums, the dancing quadrilles of old New Orleans, the work songs of the river ports, the field shanties of the cotton plantations, the spirituals, the blues, the off-beats of ragtime -- in a history as exciting as jazz rhythms, Hughes describes how each of these played a part in the extraordinary history of jazz.
language: English
title: First Book Of Jazz
titlecomplete: First Book Of Jazz
genres: Biography, History, Jazz, Childrens, Music, Nonfiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 72
publisher: Ecco