Pops : a life of Louis Armstrong

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Pops : a life of Louis Armstrong

Terry Teachout

Mariner Books, 2010, c2009

1st Mariner Books ed

  • : pbk

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Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

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

Summary: Draws on previously unavailable sources, including hundreds of private recordings made throughout the second half of the jazz master's life, to assess his artistic achievements and personal life

Contents of Works

  • The cause of happiness
  • 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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