Stomp off, let's go : the early years of Louis Armstrong /
Ricky Riccardi
Bok · Engelsk · 2025 · Biographies.
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| Omfang | xxii, 466 pages : : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ;
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| Opplysninger | Prologue: "my whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit" -- "A firecracker baby!" (1901-1906) -- "Everything happened in the brick row" (1906-1910) -- "Like a human being" (1910-1911) -- "Nothing could stop him" (1911-1912) -- "Blessed assurance" (1912) -- "Hooray for Louis Armstrong!" (1913-1914) -- "I would gladly live it over again" (1914) -- "Destined to be great" (1914-1915) -- "The memory of the bullies and trouble makers" (1916) -- "My fairy god father" (1916-1917) -- "Just wasn't my time to die, man" (1917) -- "Had to eat" (1917-1918) -- "Nothing but fuck and fight" (1918-1919) -- "They loved us" (1919) -- "Descending the sky like a god" (1919-1921) -- "Son, you got a chance" (1921-1922) -- "I always played pretty under him" (1922) -- "The hot miss lil" (1922-1923) -- "He's got to be better" (1923-1924) -- "Second trumpet to no one" (1924) -- "Big headed motherfuckers" (1924-1925) -- "I know I can play and I know I can sing" (1925) -- "The world's greatest jazz cornetist" (1925-1926) -- "I got the heebies" (1926) -- "The latest novelty" (1926) -- "Just keep on blowing" (1927) -- "Awful glorious days" (1927-1928) -- "A record of importance" (1928) -- "Louis had changed the whole world" (1928-1929) -- Epilogue: "I never did leave New Orleans".. - "The revelatory origin story of one of America's most beloved musicians, Louis Armstrong. How did Louis Armstrong become Louis Armstrong? In Stomp Off, Let's Go, author and Armstrong expert Ricky Riccardi tells the enthralling story of the iconic trumpeter's meteoric rise to fame. Beginning with Armstrong's youth in New Orleans, Riccardi transports readers through Armstrong's musical and personal development, including his initial trip to Chicago to join Joe 'King' Oliver's band, his first to New York to meet Fletcher Henderson, and his eventual return to Chicago, where he changed the course of music with the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings. While this period of Armstrong's life is perhaps more familiar than others, Riccardi enriches extant narratives with recently unearthed archival materials, including a rare draft of pianist, composer, and Armstrong's second wife Lillian 'Lil' Hardin Armstrong's autobiography. Riccardi similarly tackles the perceived notion of Armstrong as a 'sell-out' during his later years, highlighting the many ways in which Armstrong's musical style and personal values in fact remained steady throughout his career. By foregrounding the voices of Armstrong and his contemporaries, Stomp Off, Let's Go offers a more intimate exploration of Armstrong's personal and professional relationships, in turn providing essential insights into how Armstrong evolved into one of America's most beloved icons."--
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| ISBN | 0197614485. - 9780197614488
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