Pops : a life of Louis Armstrong / Terry Teachout.
Teachout, Terry.
2009
ML419.A75 T43 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Pops : a life of Louis Armstrong / Terry Teachout.
Author Teachout, Terry.
ISBN 9780151010899
0151010897
Imprint Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Language English
Description xii, 475 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number ML419.A75 T43 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 781.65092 B
Summary Louis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century and a giant of modern American culture. Offstage he was witty, introspective and unexpectedly complex, a beloved colleague with an explosive temper whose larger-than-life personality was tougher and more sharp-edged than his worshipping fans ever knew. Wall Street Journal arts columnist Terry Teachout has drawn on new sources unavailable to previous biographers, including hundreds of private recordings of backstage and after-hours conversations, to craft a sweeping new narrative biography of this towering figure that shares, for the first time, full, accurate versions of such storied events as Armstrong's quarrel with President Eisenhower and his decision to break up his big band.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Bastards from the start : apprenticeship in New Orleans, 1901-1919
All those tall buildings : leaving home, 1919-1924
A flying cat : Harlem and Chicago, 1924-1927
It's got to be art : with Earl Hines, 1928
The way a trumpet should play : on the move, 1929-1930
Don't let 'em cool off, boys : on the run, 1930-1932
I didn't blow the horn : crisis, 1932-1935
Always have a white man : with Joe Glaser, 1935-1938
The people who criticize : losing touch, 1938-1947
Keep the horn percolating : renewal, 1947-1954
The nice taste we leave : ambassador Satch, 1954-1963
I don't sigh for nothing : at the top, 1963-1971.

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