Pops A Life of Louis Armstrong

Name: Pops A Life of Louis Armstrong
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ISBN: 9780547386379

ISBN-10: 0547386370

ISBN-13: 9780547386379

Edition: 2009

Authors: Terry Teachout

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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 Journalarts columnist Terry Teachout has drawn on a cache of important new sources…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/7/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English