Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago s music scene under
the tutelage of Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong is recognized as
one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. A
trumpet virtuoso, seductive crooner, and consummate entertainer,
Armstrong laid the foundation for the future of jazz with his
stylistic innovations, but his story would be incomplete without
examining how he struggled in a society seething with brutally
racist ideologies, laws, and practices.
Thomas Brothers picks up where he left off with the acclaimed
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, following the story of the great
jazz musician into his most creatively fertile years in the 1920s
and early 1930s, when Armstrong created not one but two modern
musical styles. Brothers wields his own tremendous skill in making
the connections between history and music accessible to everyone as
Armstrong shucks and jives across the page. Through Brothers's
expert ears and eyes we meet an Armstrong whose quickness and
sureness, so evident in his performances, served him well in his
encounters with racism while his music soared across the airwaves
into homes all over America.
Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism blends cultural history,
musical scholarship, and personal accounts from Armstrong's
contemporaries to reveal his enduring contributions to jazz and
popular music at a time when he and his bandmates couldn t count on
food or even a friendly face on their travels across the country.
Thomas Brothers combines an intimate knowledge of Armstrong's life
with the boldness to examine his place in such a racially charged
landscape. In vivid prose and with vibrant photographs, Brothers
illuminates the life and work of the man many consider to be the
greatest American musician of the twentieth century."
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