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Jewish Literary Voices: A Federation Series in collaboration with The Jewish Book Council
Honoring the life and accomplishments of MLK and other civil rights changemakers, join reporter Larry Tye for a discussion of his book, The Jazzmen which looks mainly at these three maestros’ lives off the bandstand, and how they wrote the soundtrack for the civil rights revolution. It also explores the Black-Jewish alliance of old—one where each of these African-American bandleaders had a Jewish manager and bandmates —and how that might offer a model for today.
Lawrence Tye is a former reporter at The Boston Globe, off now writing books and running a Boston-based fellowship program for health journalists. The Jazzmen is his ninth book.
Purchase the book HERE and a portion of the proceeds will be donated back to a local bookstore in the Berkshires.
