An edition of Pops
(2010)
Pops
a life of Louis Armstrong
1st Mariner books ed.
by Terry Teachout
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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.
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Musicians, Jazz music, Biography, Jazz musicians, Jazz musicians, biography, Armstrong, louis, 1900-1971People
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Pops: a life of Louis Armstrong
2010, Mariner Books
in English
- 1st Mariner books ed.
0547386370 9780547386379
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Table of Contents
Prologue: "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
Afterword
Appendix: Thirty key recordings by Louis Armstrong.
Edition Notes
Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-448) and index.
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