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Armstrong, Louis "satchmo" - (Daniel Louis Armstrong), 1901–1971, American jazz trumpet virtuoso, singer, and bandleader, b. New Orleans. He learned to play the cornet in the band of the Waif's Home in New Orleans, and after playing with Kid Ory's orchestra he made several trips (1918–21) with a Mississippi riverboat band. He joined (1922) King Oliver's group in


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    Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings » Read Now

    by Louis Armstrong, Thomas Brothers, Charles Kinzer. 255 pgs.

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    Louis Armstrong has been the subject of countless biographies and music histories. Yet scant attention has been paid to the remarkable array of writings he left behind. Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words introduces readers to a little-known facet of this master trumpeter, band leader, and...
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    Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans » Read Now

    by Louis Armstrong. 248 pgs.

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    Horn of Plenty: The Story of Louis Armstrong (1947) » Read Now

    by Robert Goffin, James F. Bezou. 318 pgs.

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    Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History (Chap. 17 "What Is Swing?" by Louis Armstrong, Chap. 30 "Bop Is Nowhere," and Chap. 42 "Louis Armstrong on Music and Politics") » Read Now

    by Robert Walser. 450 pgs.

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    Drawing from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time lets you experience, first hand, the controversies and critical issues that have accompanied jazz from its very birth. Edited by Robert Walser, these sixty-two thought provoking pieces...
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    The Early Swing Era, 1930 to 1941 ("Louis Armstrong" begins on p. 147) » Read Now

    by Dave Oliphant. 465 pgs.

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    The early swing era of jazz, from 1930 to 1941, represents both an extension of developments of the previous decade and an introduction of new tendencies that influenced subsequent periods of jazz history. Major big bands and individual artists established important styles that brought wide...
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    The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 (Chap. 3 "Louis Armstrong") » Read Now

    by Gunther Schuller. 919 pgs.

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    Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat Hentoff called it "a remarkable...
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