Who Was Louis Armstrong

Who Was Louis Armstrong
Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough,Who HQ
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2004-12-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781101639962

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If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong's own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year life spanned a critical time in American music as well as black history.

Swing That Music

Swing That Music
Author: Louis Armstrong
Publsiher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1993-08-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0306805448

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The first autobiography of a jazz musician, Louis Armstrong's Swing That Music is a milestone in jazz literature. Armstrong wrote most of the biographical material, which is of a different nature and scope than that of his other, later autobiography, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (also published by Da Capo/Perseus Books Group). Satchmo covers in intimate detail Armstrong's life until his 1922 move to Chicago; but Swing That Music also covers his days on Chicago's South Side with ”King” Oliver, his courtship and marriage to Lil Hardin, his 1929 move to New York, the formation of his own band, his European tours, and his international success. One of the most earnest justifications ever written for the new style of music then called ”swing” but more broadly referred to as ”Jazz,” Swing That Music is a biography, a history, and an entertainment that really ”swings.”

Louis Armstrong Master of Modernism

Louis Armstrong  Master of Modernism
Author: Thomas Brothers,Thomas David Brothers
Publsiher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2014-02-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393065824

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Picking up where Louis Armstrong's New Orleans left off, this biographical account of the legendary jazz trumpet virtuoso highlights the historical role Armstrong played in the creation of modern music and also his encounters with racism.

Louis Armstrong in His Own Words

Louis Armstrong  in His Own Words
Author: Louis Armstrong
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN: 019514046X

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Louis Armstrong has been the subject of countless biographies and music histories. Yet scant attention has been paid to the remarkable array of writings he left behind. Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words introduces readers to a little-known facet of this master trumpeter, bandleader, and entertainer. Based on extensive research through the Armstrong archives, this important volume includes some of his earliest letters, personal correspondence, autobiographical writings, magazine articles, and essays.

Heart Full of Rhythm

Heart Full of Rhythm
Author: Ricky Riccardi
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-08-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780190914134

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Nearly 50 years after his death, Louis Armstrong remains one of the 20th century's most iconic figures. Popular fans still appreciate his later hits such as "Hello, Dolly!" and "What a Wonderful World," while in the jazz community, he remains venerated for his groundbreaking innovations in the 1920s. The achievements of Armstrong's middle years, however, possess some of the trumpeter's most scintillating and career-defining stories. But the story of this crucial time has never been told in depth until now. Between 1929 and 1947, Armstrong transformed himself from a little-known trumpeter in Chicago to an internationally renowned pop star, setting in motion the innovations of the Swing Era and Bebop. He had a similar effect on the art of American pop singing, waxing some of his most identifiable hits such as "Jeepers Creepers" and "When You're Smiling." However as author Ricky Riccardi shows, this transformative era wasn't without its problems, from racist performance reviews and being held up at gunpoint by gangsters to struggling with an overworked embouchure and getting arrested for marijuana possession. Utilizing a prodigious amount of new research, Riccardi traces Armstrong's mid-career fall from grace and dramatic resurgence. Featuring never-before-published photographs and stories culled from Armstrong's personal archives, Heart Full of Rhythm tells the story of how the man called "Pops" became the first "King of Pop."

Pops

Pops
Author: Terry Teachout
Publsiher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2009
Genre: African American jazz musicians
ISBN: 0151010897

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Certain to be the definitive word on Louis Armstrong, "Pops" paints a gripping portrait of the man, his world, and his music. Drawing on a cache of new sources, the author has crafted a sweeping new narrative biography of this towering figure.

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong
Author: Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Publsiher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761340010

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A short look at the life of the famous musician.

A Horn for Louis

A Horn for Louis
Author: Eric A. Kimmel
Publsiher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2009-09-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780307530950

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How did famous New Orleans jazz trumpet player Louis Armstrong get his first horn? Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real instrument. He didn’t even go to school. To help his mother pay the rent, every day he rode a junk wagon through the streets of New Orleans, playing a tin horn and collecting stuff people didn’t want. Then one day, the junk wagon passed a pawn shop with a gleaming brass trumpet in the window. . . . With messages about hard work, persistence, hope, tolerance, cooperation, trust, and friendship, A Horn for Louis is perfect for aspiring young musicians and nonfiction fans alike! History Stepping Stones now feature updated content that emphasizes Common Core and today’s renewed interest in nonfiction. Perfect for home, school, and library bookshelves!