The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America runs 16.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Dominic Hoffman (about 11.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 34 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 16.7 hours, it runs longer than 95% of the 8,856 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Dominic Hoffman
Dominic Hoffman narrates 129 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,504 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Arts & Entertainment shelf
324 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America is an audiobook by Larry Tye: a 16.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Dominic Hoffman, released May 7, 2024, on the Arts & Entertainment shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Dominic Hoffman
- Released
- May 7, 2024
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Arts & Entertainment
- ISBN
- 9780063385061
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America as an audiobook?
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America runs 16.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.2 hours.
Is The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America?
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America is narrated by Dominic Hoffman.
Is The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.2 hours, saving 5.6 hours.