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Series
Magic tree house volume 42
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
Author
Language
English
Description
Louis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century and a giant of modern American culture. Offstage he was witty, introspective and unexpectedly complex, a beloved colleague with an explosive temper whose larger-than-life personality was tougher and more sharp-edged than his worshiping fans ever knew. Wall Street Journal arts columnist Terry Teachout has drawn on new sources unavailable to previous biographers, including hundreds...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
2008 edition.
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A short biography of Louis Armstrong, the famous jazz musician and trumpet player who helped make jazz one of the world's most popular types of music.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of three revolutionary American musicians, the maestro jazzmen who orchestrated the chords that throb at the soul of twentieth-century America. Duke Ellington, the grandson of slaves who was christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, was a man whose story is as layered and nuanced as his name suggests and whose music transcended category. Louis Daniel Armstrong was born in a New Orleans slum so tough it was called The Battlefield and,...
12) Satchmo's blues
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictional recreation of the youth of trumpeter Louis Armstrong in New Orleans.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xi, 186 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For jazz historians, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings mark the first revolution in the history of a music riven by upheaval. Yet few traces of this revolution can be found in the historical record of the late 1920s, when the discs were made. Even black newspapers covered Armstrong as just one name among many, and descriptions of his playing, while laudatory, bear little resemblance to those of today. Through a careful analysis of...