From Satchmo to Miles
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: April 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781417618927
Subjects: Genres & Styles - Jazz; History & Criticism - By Composer; Individual Composer & Musician; Music; Music/Songbooks
First sentence: IN THE early years Louis Armstrong's most dedicated admirers-to whom his work was not entertainment alone, but part of a vital and fast-growing art form-were the people all over the world to whom jazz was inaccessible except through the secondhand experience of a few three-minute photograph records.