Oh Play That Thing (exp/a) (Paperback)

Oh Play That Thing (exp/a) Book Description

Its 1924, and New York is the center of the universe. Henry smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashed hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who runs the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. It is time to leave, for another America- Chicago is wild and new, and newest of all is the music. Furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called louis Armstrong. His music is everywhere, comimg from every open door, every phonograph .But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour: there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. Armstrong needs a man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart

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