Pops
Subtitle: a life of Louis Armstrong
By: Terry Teachout
Edition: 1st Mariner books ed.
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780547386379
Subjects: Musicians; Jazz music; Biography; Jazz musicians
Description: Draws on previously unavailable sources, including hundreds of private recordings made throughout the second half of the jazz master's life, to assess his artistic achievements and personal life.
Notes: Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-448) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: "The cause of happiness"; title: "Bastards from the start" : apprenticeship in New Orleans, 1901-1919; title: "All those tall buildings" : leaving home, 1919-1924; title: "A flying cat" : Harlem and Chicago, 1924-1927; title: "It's got to be art" : with Earl Hines, 1928; title: "The way a trumpet should play" : on the move, 1929-1930; title: "Don't let 'em cool off, boys" : on the run, 1930-1932; title: "I didn't blow the horn" : crisis, 1932-1935; title: "Always have a white man : with Joe Glaser, 1935-1938; title: "The people who criticize" : losing touch, 1938-1947; title: "Keep the horn percolating" : renewal, 1947-1954; title: "The nice taste we leave" : Ambassador Satch, 1954-1963; title: "I don't sigh for nothing" : at the top 1963-1971; title: Afterword; title: Appendix: Thirty key recordings by Louis Armstrong.