Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
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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 New York Times Book Review - David Margolick…Armstrong could not have a more impassioned advocate. At times, Pops reads like a defense brief, but a very loving and knowledgeable one.
A Note on the TextPrologue: "The Cause of Happiness" 11 "Bastards from the Start": Apprenticeship in New Orleans, 1901-1919 232 "All Those Tall Buildings": Leaving Home, 1919-1924 513 "A Flying Cat": Harlem and Chicago, 1924-1927 804 "It's Got to Be Art": With Earl Hines, 1928 1095 "The Way a Trumpet Should Play": On the Move, 1929-1930 1276 "Don't Let 'Em Cool Off, Boys": On the Run, 1930-1932 1547 "I Didn't Blow the Horn": Crisis, 1932-1935 1788 "Always Have a White Man": With Joe Glaser, 1935-1938 2059 "The People Who Criticize": Losing Touch, 1938-1947 23210 "Keep the Horn Percolating": Renewal, 1947-1954 26711 "The Nice Taste We Leave": Ambassador Satch, 1954-1963 30412 "I Don't Sigh for Nothing": At the Top, 1963-1971 342Afterword 380Appendix Thirty Key Recordings by Louis Armstrong 385Source Notes 387Select Bibliography 441Photo Credits 449Index 451
