Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong

Terry Teachout

475 pages first pub 2009 (view editions)

nonfiction biography music informative reflective slow-paced
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Pops is ideal for a reader who savors a measured, contemplative deep-dive into the life of a towering cultural figure, relishing fresh primary material and nuanced psychological portraiture over swift storytelling.

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Product Description Louis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century and a giant of modern American culture. He knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts, wrote the finest of all jazz autobiographies--without a collabora...

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