
Pops: a life of Louis Armstrong
Biography, Music biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Louis Armstrong is considered one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century, a gifted and imaginative artist who also created collages and wrote an autobiography. Teachout's biography draws on hundreds of reels of recordings of backstage and after-hour… conversations that Armstrong made throughout his career, newly uncovered material about Armstrong's early life, and Armstrong's own writings. Some strong language. c2009.