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Leslie Gourse is the award-winning author of some thirty books, including Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk and Wynton Marsalis: Skain's Domain, as well as biographies of Carmen McRae, Nat "King" Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Williams, and Dizzy Gillespie. She also edited The Billie Holiday Companion and The Ella Fitzgerald Companion for Schirmer and has contributed to many magazines and newspapers. A native of Fall River, Massachusetts, she acquired her love of jazz after moving to New York City to study creative writing at Columbia University.Gourse, Leslie is the author of 'Art Blakey Jazz Messenger' with ISBN 9780825672729 and ISBN 0825672724.
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