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These are the years of his highest-charting hits, including \"Mack the Knife\" and \"Hello, Dolly\"; the famed collaborations with Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington; and his legendary recordings with the All Stars. 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Popular fans still appreciate his later hits such as \"Hello, Dolly!\" and \"What a Wonderful World,\" while in the jazz community, he remains venerated for his groundbreaking innovations in the 1920s. The achievements of Armstrong's middle years, however, possess some of the trumpeter's most scintillating and career-defining stories. But the story of this crucial time has never been told in depth — until now. Between 1929 and 1947, Armstrong transformed himself from a little-known trumpeter in Chicago to an internationally renowned pop star, setting in motion the innovations of the Swing Era and Bebop. He had a similar effect on the art of American pop singing, waxing some of his most identifiable hits such as \"Jeepers Creepers\" and \"When You're Smiling.\" However as author Ricky Riccardi shows, this transformative era wasn't without its problems, from racist performance reviews and being held up at gunpoint by gangsters to struggling with an overworked embouchure and getting arrested for marijuana possession. Utilizing a prodigious amount of new research, Riccardi traces Armstrong's mid-career fall from grace and dramatic resurgence. 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In Stomp Off, Let's Go, author and Armstrong expert Ricky Riccardi tells the enthralling story of the iconic trumpeter's meteoric rise to fame. Beginning with Armstrong's youth in New Orleans, Riccardi transports readers through Armstrong's musical and personal development, including his initial trip to Chicago to join Joe \"King\" Oliver's band, his first to New York to meet Fletcher Henderson, and his eventual return to Chicago, where he changed the course of music with the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings.   While this period of Armstrong's life is perhaps more familiar than others, Riccardi enriches extant narratives with recently unearthed archival materials, including a rare draft of pianist, composer, and Armstrong's second wife Lillian \"Lil\" Hardin Armstrong's autobiography. Riccardi similarly tackles the perceived notion of Armstrong as a \"sell-out\" during his later years, highlighting the many ways in which Armstrong's musical style and personal values in fact remained steady throughout his career. 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