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The Blue Note: Seattle’s Black Musicians' Union A Pictorial History
by David Keller
The following is an excerpt from the preface of The Blue Note: Seattle's Black Musicians' Union A Pictorial History by David Keller (Our House Publishing, 2013). This is a story about the hopes and dreams of a small group of African American men and women. They ran their own union in Seattle beginning in the early 1900s. This union was the American Federation of Musicians' Union Local 493. Its members had a dream that they should be ...
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Megan Keller
“The Blue Note takes me home to the heady days of Seattle’s jazz scene. It's a fine blend of rare photographs, first person accounts and scholarship. It also shines light on the path-breaking union musicians who played Seattle and ultimately brought about the merging of the black and white unions.” —Quincy Jones “The Blue Note gives us an entertaining and informative slice of Seattle’s black cultural history that every jazz fan should have.” —Steve Griggs, Earshot Jazz “Though subtitled 'A ...
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