Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld Black & African American Literature featuring twenty black-and-white photographs

featuring twenty black-and-white photographs

He became the first person to simultaneously star in two major professional sports

—he’s not there

and the unborn heir to his family’s dynasty

Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld Black & African American Literature featuring twenty black-and-white photographsFrom T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America. "[A] brilliant and courageous book." Dr. Cornel West Dangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century Americas most notorious vice districts. For the first half of the century mobsters