Profiles jazz singer and trumpeter Louis Armstrong. The various facets of Armstrong's life; Biographical information; His use of body language to create expressive languages of his own; His solving of the problem of how to be a man in a racist culture at the same time as he was bringing ...
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Giddins, Gary. “Louis Armstrong (The Once and Future King).” InVisions of Jazz: The First Century. By Gary Giddins, 83–102. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Biographical details subsumed in a critical appraisal of Armstrong’s accomplishments as musician, instrumentalist, singer, and...
Though the play is biographical — audiences learn about the Dixieland musician’s introduction to the trumpet and his penchant for smoking marijuana — the show also acts as a love story or a series of love stories, since Armstrong was married four times. At the beginning of the musica...
For instance, there are few biographical discussions of Louis Armstrong that foreground a discussion of musical style and syntax. Arguments in favor of that omission are typically advanced by concentrating on the supposed non-Western roots of the music or simple cultural sensitivity, both of which ...
will honor the work of both Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. On the Ellington nights, folks should expect to hear renditions of “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing,”“Mood Indigo,”“Caravan” and “In My Solitude.” On the Armstrong nights, audience members wi...