Jazz Legends: Fact or Fiction — The Real Stories Behind Jazz's Greatest Icons (Digital Ebook)

Every kind of American music you love has jazz fingerprints on it somewhere — and most trivia nights get the story wrong.

Jazz Legends: Fact or Fiction takes you inside the real lives of eleven icons who built jazz from nothing: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, and Nina Simone.

Each chapter drops five fact-or-fiction calls before revealing the full story — the fun facts (Louis Armstrong's Star of David, Ella Fitzgerald's last-second switch from dancer to singer) and the hard-hitting ones (police permits that could end a career overnight, addictions that started with a doctor's prescription, a segregated club that made a legend famous and wouldn't let his own people through the door).

What's inside:

• 11 full legend profiles, each with a 5-question Fact or Fiction quiz + answer key
• A 15-question Bebop Speed Round for rapid-fire trivia nights
• A jazz glossary — swing, bebop, cabaret card, cutting contest, sheets of sound, and more
• An "Eras of Jazz at a Glance" quick-reference timeline
• Real research, real stakes, zero fluff

Format: Instant digital PDF download, 37 pages, clickable table of contents. Read on phone, tablet, or desktop.

Perfect for: jazz fans, trivia night hosts, music history nerds, teachers building a fun classroom unit, or anyone who wants the bragging rights of actually knowing what they're talking about next time someone puts on Kind of Blue.

$9.99 — 11 legends, 70 fact-or-fiction calls, and a lifetime of correct answers at parties.

This is a digital download only — no physical product will be shipped. Due to the nature of digital goods, all sales are final.