Download Piano Demon: The Globetrotting, Gin-Soaked, Too-Short Life of Teddy Weatherford, the Chicago Jazzman Who Conquered Asia AudioBook Free
At age six, Teddy Weatherford was employed in the coal mines of Virginia. By his early on 20s he was the toast of Chicago's jazz arena, rivaling Louis Armstrong and wowing Jelly Move Morton along with his piano talent. But when Weatherford still left segregated America for the allures of Shanghai and Bombay, he lay out on an excitement he hadn't thought. The person they called "The Seagull" would end up being the globetrotting jazz ruler of Asia in the shadow of World Conflict II, and provide the soundtrack going back gasp of an empire. Brendan I. Koerner reveals the true tale of what sort of forgotten legend resided the American Goal by leaving it behind - and helped globalize music with a piano and a sharkskin suit. Brendan I. Koerner can be an award-winning journalist and the author of Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Trip From the best Manhunt of World Conflict II (Penguin, 2008), that was optioned for film by Spike Lee. He's also a adding editor at Wired, and contributor to Slate.com, THE BRAND NEW York Times, and a great many other publications.
