The Gentle Giant
Publisher: Morton Books, Inc.
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781929188123
Subjects: Composers & Musicians - Jazz; Cultural Heritage; Composers & Musicians - General; People of Color; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: At the dawn of my life, I was born William Emmanuel Huddleston, Oct. 9, 1920 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, not too far from the neighborhood where blues singer Bessie Smith was born in 1894 and raised.