Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Ed., introd. and appendix by Thomas Brothers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Armstrong recounts his early life in New Orleans, his experiences in Chicago and New York during the 1920s, his crowning as "King of the Zulus," and his late years in Queens, New York. Here is a dimension of Louis Armstrong that includes the history of jazz and, he history of American culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780195140460
• ISBN-10: 019514046X
• Artikelnr.: 11668086

Autorenporträt

Thomas Brothers is an Associate Professor of Music at Duke University and the author of Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

* "Seing a Lot of Type Writing": An Introduction to Louis Armstrong's
Writings
* Editorial Policy
* Acknowledgments
* "Home Sweet Home": Childhood and Apprenticeship in New Orleans
* 2: "Joe Oliver is Still King" (1950)
* 3: "Bunk Didn't Teach Me" (1950)
* 4: Letter to Isidore Barbarin (September 1, 1922)
* "Some Kind of a God": Chicago, New York, and California, 1922-1931
* 6: Letters to Robert Goffin (May 7 and July 19, 1944)
* 7: The "Goffin Notebooks" (ca. 1944)
* 8: "The Satchmo Story" (early 1959)
* 9: "Jazz on a High Note" (1951)
* "Book Anywhere - Anytime": Life on the Road during the 1940s and
1950s
* 11: Letter to Leonard Feather (September 18, 1941)
* 12: Letter to Betty Jane Holder (February 9, 1952)
* 13: Letter to Joe Glaser (August 2, 1955)
* 14: "Lombardo Grooves Louis!" (1949)
* "Music Has No Age": Late Years in Corona, New York
* 16: "Scanning the History of Jazz" (1960)
* 17: "Our Neighbourhood" (ca. 1970)
* 18: Open Letter to Fans (June 1, 1970)
* 19: "Goodbye to All of You" (1969)