Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life by Laurence Bergreen

Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life

Laurence Bergreen

564 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography music informative reflective medium-paced
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Louis Armstrong was the founding father of jazz and one of this century's towering cultural figures, yet the full story of his extravagant life has never been told. Born in 1901 to the sixteen-year-old daughter of a slave, he came of age among the...

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