Pops by Terry Teachout
Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts four decades after he cut his first record. 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 worshiping fans ever knew.Wall Street Journal critic Terry Teachout has drawn on a cache of important new sources unavailable to previous biographers, including hundreds of candid after-hours recordings made by Armstrong himself, to craft a sweeping new narrative biography. 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's Bing Crosby and Peter Guralnick's Last Train to Memphis as a classic biography of a major American musician.
The WallStreet Journal's theater critic Terry Teachout is the author of Pops: A Biography of Louis Armstrong and Satchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man play on Armstrong's life and times. He currently resides in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780547386379 |
| ISBN 10 | 0547386370 |
| Title | Pops |
| Author | Terry Teachout |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mariner Books |
| Year published | 2010-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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