Ricky Riccardi

Stomp Off, Let's Go (eBook, PDF)

The Early Years of Louis Armstrong

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Produktbeschreibung

The revelatory origin story of one of America's most beloved musicians, Louis Armstrong How did Louis Armstrong become Louis Armstrong? 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. By foregrounding the voices of Armstrong and his contemporaries, Stomp Off, Let's Go offers a more intimate exploration of Armstrong's personal and professional relationships, in turn providing essential insights into how Armstrong evolved into one of America's most beloved icons.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197614495
• Artikelnr.: 72647249

Autorenporträt

Ricky Riccardi is Director of Research Collections for the Louis Armstrong House Museum, and author of What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years and Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong. In 2022, he won a GRAMMY Award for Best Album Notes for The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Studio Sessions 1946-1966. He has delivered lectures on Armstrong at venues around the world and has taught Armstrong courses for Jazz at Lincoln Center's Swing University and at Queens College, CUNY. Riccardi has a degree in Jazz History and Research from Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Prologue
"My Whole Life, My Whole Soul, My Whole Spirit" * 1. "A Firecracker Baby!"
1901
1906 * 2. "Everything Happened in the Brick Row"
1906
1910 * 3. "Like a Human Being"
1910
1911 * 4. "Nothing Could Stop Him"
1911
1912 * 5. "Blessed Assurance"
1912 * 6. "Hooray for Louis Armstrong!"
1913
14 * 7. "I Would Gladly Live It Over Again"
1914 * 8. "Destined to be Great"
1914
1915 * 9. "The Memory of the Bullies and Trouble Makers"
1916 * 10. "My Fairy God Father"
1916
17 * 11. "Just Wasn't My Time to Die, Man"
1917 * 12. "Had to Eat"
1917
18 * 13. "Nothing But Fuck and Fight"
1918
19 * 14. "They Loved Us"
1919 * 15. "Descending the Sky Like a God"
1919
21 * 16. "Son, You Got a Chance"
1921
22 * 17. "I Always Played Pretty Under Him"
1922 * 18. "The Hot Miss Lil"
1922
23 * 19. "He's Got to be Better"
1923
1924 * 20. "Second Trumpet to No One"
1924 * 21. "Big Headed Motherfuckers"
1924
25 * 22. "I Know I Can Play and I Know I Can Sing"
1925 * 23. "The World's Greatest Jazz Cornetist"
1925
1926 * 24. "I Got the Heebies"
1926 * 25. "The Latest Novelty"
1926 * 26. "Just Keep on Blowing"
1927 * 27. "Awful Glorious Days"
1927
28 * 28. "A Record of Importance"
1928 * 29. "Louis Had Changed the Whole World"
1929 * Epilogue
"I Never Did Leave New Orleans" * Index