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Pops: The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
by Terry Teachout
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper nicked at the head of the spine and top corner of the upper panel, a decent
- ISBN 10
- 1906779562
- ISBN 13
- 9781906779566
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: JR Books, 2009. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper nicked at the head of the spine and top corner of the upper panel, a decent copy otherwise. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (black boards with silver titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (1.3 kg); (xii) 475pp; Index; Bibliography; Includes: Black & white photographs; List of sources; Appendix; ISBN: 978-1-9067-7956-6 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #191655|| Condition:
Synopsis
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 collaborator - and created collages that have been compared to the art of Romare Bearden. The ranks of his admirers included Johnny Cash, Jackson Pollock and Orson Welles. Offstage he was witty, introspective and unexpectedly complex, a beloved colleague with an explosive temper whose larger-than-life personality was tougher and more sharp-edged than his worshipping fans ever knew. Wall Street Journal arts columnist Terry Teachout has drawn on a cache of important new sources unavailable to previous Armstrong biographers, including hundreds of private recordings of backstage and after-hours conversations that Armstrong made throughout the second half of his life, to craft a sweeping new narrative biography of this towering figure that shares full, accurate versions of such storied events as Armstrong's decision to break up his big band and his quarrel with President Eisenhower for the first time. Certain to be the definitive word on Armstrong for our generation, Pops paints a gripping portrait of the man, his world and his music that will stand alongside Gary Giddins' Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams and Peter Guralnick's Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley as a classic biography of a major American musician.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 191655
- Title
- Pops: The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
- Author
- Terry Teachout
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper nicked at the head of the spine and top corner of the upper panel, a decent
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1906779562
- ISBN 13
- 9781906779566
- Publisher
- London: JR Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- jazz musicians, music culture, solo jazz performers, american jazz musicians, jazz united states, jazz singers, african-american jazz singers, african-american musicians, first edition books, books by terry teachout, 978-1-9067-7956-6
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music, Opera, Ballet, Dance;
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