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White jazz: Los Angeles, 17 ottobre 1958. L'FBI apre un'inchiesta sui collegamenti tra l'ambiente del pugilato professionistico e la malavita. Un'inchiesta che potrebbe allargarsi, trascinando nel fango tanti personaggi in vista della buona società, gente difficile da intrappolare. Ci vuole un'esca irresistibile.
White Jazz. Il crepuscolo degli anni '50 a Los Angeles ha il volto del tenente Dave Klein: estorsione, omicidio, mazzette, pestaggi, tutte procedure nella norma per lui. Quando però i federali decidono di aprire un'indagine sulla corruzione in tutto il Dipartimento, la situazione precipita...
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'L.A. Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz.His novel Blood's A Rover completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.
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5 giorni fa · White Jazz. White jazz--those were the words that kept running through my head. Why? This evening I listened to three of America's finest jazz musicians at Birdland: Paul Bley on piano, Gary Peacock on bass and Paul Motian on drums. And they all happen to be white. "White Jazz" is the title of a James McElroy novel set in LA in the 1950s.
White jazz musicians appeared in the Midwest and in other areas throughout the U.S. Papa Jack Laine, who ran the Reliance band in New Orleans in the 1910s, was called "the father of white jazz". The Original Dixieland Jazz Band , whose members were white, were the first jazz group to record, and Bix Beiderbecke was one of the most prominent jazz soloists of the 1920s. [29]
White Jazz is a 1992 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy. It is the fourth in his L.A. Quartet, preceded by The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and L.A. Confidential. James Ellroy dedicated White Jazz TO Helen Knode. The epigraph for White Jazz is 'In the end I possess my birthplace and I am possesse.
