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Satchmo : My Life in New Orleans

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), nicknamed Satchmo, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz. Klappentext "In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd stroll up and down the floor and the bar. Those guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy, and there was lots of just plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all, I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn." So says Louis Armstrong, a tough kid who just happened to be a musical genius, about one of the places where he performed and grew up. This raucous, rich tale of his early days in New Orleans concludes with his departure to Chicago at twenty-one to play with his boyhood idol King Oliver, and tells the story of a life that began, mythically, on July 4, 1900, in the city that sowed the seeds of jazz. Zusammenfassung "In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd s

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Authors Louis Armstrong
Assisted by Dan Morgenstern (Illustration)
Publisher Dacapo
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 28.08.2000
 
EAN 9780306802768
ISBN 978-0-306-80276-8
Dimensions 136 mm x 210 mm x 16 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries

Jazz, Unterhaltungsmusik, Popmusik, Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung, Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Biography / Autobiography, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music

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