Girl singer
By: Mick Carlon
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781935248736
Subjects: Coming of age; Musicians; Singers; Jazz; African Americans; Holocaust survivors; Fiction
Description: "1938: eighteen-year-old Avery, aspiring singer, is heard by Lester "Pres" Young, Count Basie's tenor saxophonist. Pres recommends her to Basie, and Avery is whisked into the jazz life. Years later, with several hit records to her credit, Avery settles in Greenwich Village. But her life takes a sharp turn when she meets Karl, a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany"--