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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Atria, Travis, author.
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Briggs, Arthur, 1901-1991.
Trumpet players -- Biography.
Jazz musicians -- Biography.
Nazi concentration camp inmates -- France -- Biography.
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Better days will come again : the life of Arthur Briggs, jazz genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi prison camp / Travis Atria.
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Atria, Travis, author.
Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2020]
Subjects
Briggs, Arthur, 1901-1991.
Trumpet players -- Biography.
Jazz musicians -- Biography.
Nazi concentration camp inmates -- France -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780914090106 (hardcover) :
0914090100 (hardcover) :
Description:
xi, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Preface by Barbara Pierrat-Briggs -- Psalm 137 -- Job 12:15 -- Ecclesiastes 4:1 -- A note from the author -- Epilogue by James Briggs Murray.
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"By the 1930s, Briggs was considered "the Louis Armstrong of Paris," and was the peer of the greatest names of his time, from Josephine Baker to Django Reinhardt. In 1940, he was arrested and sent to the prison camp at Saint Denis. Based on groundbreaking research and including unprecedented access to Briggs's oral memoir, this is a crucial document of jazz history, a fast-paced epic, and an entirely original tale of survival"--
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Hawaii State Library
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781.65092 Briggs At
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781.65092 Briggs At
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Adult Biography
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781.65092 Briggs At
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