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African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
The pianist, composer, and bandleader Randy Weston is one of the world’s most influential jazz musicians and a remarkable storyteller whose career has spanned five continents and more than six decades. Packed with fascinating anecdotes,
African Rhythms
is Weston’s life story, as told by him to the music journalist Willard Jenkins. It encompasses Weston’s childhood in Brook
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Hardcover
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352 pages
Published
October 5th 2010
by Duke University Press Books
(first published 2010)
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Randy has a very interesting story and he tells it very well. His intelligence, pride and love of music and of people come through. He is as big in spirit as he is in stature.
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Randy Weston is an internationally renowned pianist, composer, and bandleader living in Brooklyn, New York. He has made more than forty albums and performed throughout the world. Weston has been inducted into the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame, designated a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, and named Jazz Composer of the Year three times by
DownBeat
magazine. He is the recipient of many
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