Pops : a life of Louis Armstrong

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Pops : a life of Louis Armstrong

Terry Teachout

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-448) and index

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

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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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Louis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century and a giant of modern American culture. He knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts, wrote the finest of all jazz autobiographies - without a collaborator - and created collages that have been compared to the art of Romare Bearden. The ranks of his admirers included Johnny Cash, Jackson Pollock and Orson Welles. 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 a cache of important new sources unavailable to previous Armstrong biographers, including hundreds of private recordings of backstage and after-hours conversations that Armstrong made throughout the second half of his life, to craft a sweeping new narrative biography of this towering figure that shares full, accurate versions of such storied events as Armstrong's decision to break up his big band and his quarrel with President Eisenhower for the first time. Certain to be the definitive word on Armstrong for our generation, POPS paints a gripping portrait of the man, his world and his music that will stand alongside Gary Giddins' "Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams" and "Peter Guralnick's Last Train" to "Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley" as a classic biography of a major American musician.

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