The musicians were mostly African American, and the clubs were owned by white men. The resulting racial diversity of the clubs and speakeasies paved the way for some of America’s greatest artists to find their voice.Įven so, at the heart of this relationship was a festering racial inequity. The mob, including major players Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, and Charlie “Lucky” Luciano, provided opportunities that would not otherwise have existed. For the first half of the century mobsters and musicians enjoyed a mutually beneficial partnership by offering artists like Louis Armstrong, Earl “Fatha” Hines, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald a prominent stage. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America.ĭangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of jazz and the underworld: a relationship fostered in some of 20th century America’s most notorious vice districts, where the mobster-owned clubs determined who played and who got paid. His screenwriting credits include TV episodes of NYPD Blue and Homicide, for which he was awarded the Humanitas Prize. English is the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, Paddy Whacked, The Westies, and Born to Kill, which was nominated for an Edgar Award.
As complex, harrowing, and human as a Scorsese film, Where the Bodies Were Buried offers a startlingly revisionist account of Bulger’s story-and of the decades-long culture of collusion between the Feds and the Irish and Italian mob factions that have ruled New England since the 1970s, when a fateful deal left the FBI fatally compromised. English is the greatest chronicler of the Irish mob in America, and covered Whitey Bulger’s 2015 trial at close range-by day in the courtroom, but also, on nights and weekends, interviewing Bulger’s associates as well as lawyers, former federal agents, and even members of the jury in the backyards and barrooms of Whitey’s world. English joins IAC to share an intimate view of the world of organized crime and law enforcement with his new book Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him. The New York Times bestselling author of The Westies and Paddy Whacked T.J.
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