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　　”Thirty-eight years after Louis Armstrong’s death, Terry
Teachout has made the possible, possible: He has written a
definitive narrative biography of the greatest jazz musician of the
twentieth century.” (San Francisco Chronicle )”To this fine,
exhaustively researched…biography, Teachout brings an insider’s
knowledge–he was a jazz musician before launching a career as
cultural critic and biographer.” (National Post The Afterword )”No
one does better in exploring Armstrong’s social context than
Teachout.” (Montreal Gazette )

　　Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician
of the twentieth centruy. A phenomenally gifted and imaginative
artist, he also 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 Jean Renoir and Le Corbusier (“He is mathematics,
equilibrium on a tightrope. He is Shakespearean!”). Virgil Thomson
called him “a master of musical art.” Stuart Davis, whose abstract
paintings were full of jazz-inspired imagery, cited him as a “Model
of greatness.”
　　Wall Street Journal arts columnist Terry Teachout, author of
previous biographies of George Balanchine and H.L. Mencken, has
drawn on a cache of sources previously unavailable, including
hundreds of reels of recordings of backstage and after-hour
conversations that Armstrong made throughout his career, newly
uncovered material about Armstrong’s early life, and Armstrong’s
own writings, to craft a sweeping new narrative biography of this
towering figure. This is going to be the last word on Armstrong in
our lifetime–it’s a portrait of the man, his world, and his music
that will stand alongside Gary Giddins’ Bing Crosby and Peter
Guralnick’s works on Elvis Presley as a classic biography of a
major American musician.

A Note on the Text
Prologue: “The Cause of Happiness”
1. “Bastards from the Start”Apprenticeship in New Orleans,
i901-1919
2. “All Those Tall Buildings”Leaving Home, i919-i924
3. “A Flying Cat”Harlem and Chicago, z924-i927
4. “It’s Got to Be Art”With Earl Hines, 1928
5. “The Way a Trumpet Should Play”On the Move, i929-i930
6. “Don’t Let ‘Em Cool Off, Boys”On the Run, 193o-1932
7. “1 Didn’t Blow the Horn”Crisis, 1932-1935
8. “Always Have a White Man”With Joe Olaser, x935-i938
9. “The People Who Criticize”Losing Touch, i938-i947
10. “Keep the Horn Percolating”Renewal, i947-i954
11. “The Nice Taste We Leave”Ambassador Satch, i954-I963
12. “1 Don’t Sigh for Nothing”At the Top, 1963-1971
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Appendix: Thirty Key Recordings by Louis Armstrong
Source Notes
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