POPS: A LIFE OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG
by TEACHOUT, TERRY;
List Price: HK$ 285.00
¡@ISBN
9780151010899
¡@Subject
BIOGRAPHY
¡@Publisher
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
¡@Publication
2009
¡@Edition
Hardcover
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
Louis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the 20th 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. 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.
