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Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Thomas Brothers
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A rags-to-riches narrative of the eminent jazz artist's early life describes how his childhood was marked by such challenges as poverty, Jim Crow legislation, a
Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Louis Armstrong
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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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
Satchmo
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Gary Giddins
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-05 - Publisher: Da Capo Press

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Gary Giddins has been called "the best jazz writer in America today" (Esquire). Louis Armstrong has been called the most influential jazz musician of the centur
Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 608
Authors: Thomas Brothers
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-03 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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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 Armstro
Who Was Louis Armstrong?
Language: en
Pages: 112
Authors: Yona Zeldis McDonough
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-12-29 - Publisher: Penguin

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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,