The Ghetto Swinger: A Berlin Jazz-Legend Remembers / CD-book bundles

By Coco SchumannWith Max Christian Graeff and Michaela HaasTranslated by John HowardAfterword by Michael H. Kater 2016. Hardcover. 192 pages with 55 illustrations and an index. 2018. Paperback. Ebook also available. $24.95 | 9780983254041 (hc)$16.95 | 9780998777061 (pb)CD-book packages available with Coco Schumann Live at Rex Casino and Coco Schumann - 50 Years in Jazz — from $38.95    Germany’s most famous swing guitarist.– Deutsche Welle International Broadcast Network The Ghetto Swinger is a poignant, sobering, and at turns humorous account of a vibrant and soul-filled life in music. Coco Schumann’s career as a jazz and swing musician spans more than seventy years and is replete with honors. But for decades Schumann bore his wartime experiences as a Holocaust survivor in silence, with only the pleasure of composing music and performing for live audiences to ease the burden of his most haunting memories. In his memoir, Schumann recounts the vibrant underground club scenes of Berlin