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Author: William A. Shack

📘 Harlem in Montmartre by William A. Shack

Illuminates the expatriate African American community of jazz musicians that thrived in the Montmartre district of Paris in the '20s and '30s and helped turn the "city of lights" into the major jazz capital it remains today.

First publish date: 2001

Authors: William A. Shack

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