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Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong Paperback - 2001

by Gary Giddins


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Gary Giddins has been called "the best jazz writer in America today" (Esquire). Louis Armstrong has been called the most influential jazz musician of the century. Together this auspicious pairing has resulted in Satchmo, one of the most vivid and fascinating portraits ever drawn of perhaps the greatest figure in the history of American music. Available now at a new price, this text-only edition is the authoritative introduction to Armstrong's life and art for the curious newcomer, and offers fresh insight even for the serious student of Pops.

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GENIUS IS THE TRANSFIGURING AGENT.

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  • Title Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong
  • Author Gary Giddins
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-01-18
  • ISBN 9780306810138 / 0306810131
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.64 x 5.5 x 0.47 in (21.95 x 13.97 x 1.19 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Jazz musicians - United States, Armstrong, Louis
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Gary Giddins wrote the Weather Bird jazz column in the Village Voice for over 30 years and later directed the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received the National Nook Critics Circle Award, the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, and the Bell Atlantic Award for Visions of Jazz: The First Century in 1998. His other books include Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-The Early Years, 1930-1940, which won the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award and the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research; Weatherbird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century; Faces in the Crowd; Natural Selection; Warning Shadow; and biographies of Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. He has won six ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Peabody Award in Broadcasting. He lives in New York, NY.
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