Jazz, by Patrick Skene Catling

“This is the story of two lives. One weak and white, the other strong and black. They connect in Storyville, the red-light quarter of New Orleans, where jazz is played: in Chicago, where the musicians find a new haven, after the quarter is closed down by the US Navy; in New York…” “It is also the story of jazz, the story of showbiz, prostitution, boot-legging, drug-running, racial bigotry and awakening tolerance, all the way from Lulu White’s Mahogany Hall in Storyville to the White House.”

Published in 1980 by Blond & Briggs Ltd, hardcover with intact dust jacket, 320 pages good condition.