Larry Tye will talk about his new book The Jazzmen, How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America. Here's what the earliest review, in Publishers Weekly, says: "Tye brings his subjects to life as both forces of social change and three-dimensional human beings who lived and breathed their art, from Ellington’s soulful, 'Shakespearian' arrangements to Armstrong’s 'heart as big as Earth' and Basie’s 'Buddha-like' temperament. It’s a vibrant ode to a legendary trio and the 'rip-roaring harmonies' that made them great.” 

March 15: 5:00 PM, Tye Room