Pops : a life of Louis Armstrong / Terry Teachout.

9780151010899
0151010897

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

English

xii, 475 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

ML419.A75 T43 2009

781.65092 B

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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