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Val Wilmer

As Serious as Your Life

As Serious as Your Life

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    “I read this a few years ago and recommend to anyone with an interest in jazz. Celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture.”

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