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What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years
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Title: What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years
Author: Ricky Riccardi
ISBN: 9780307378446
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Good
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Publisher Description:
The first account--prodigiously researched, richly detailed--of the last remarkable twenty-five years of the life and art of one of America's greatest and most beloved musical icons.
Much has been written about Louis Armstrong, but most of it focuses on the early and middle stages of his long career. Now, Ricky Riccardi--jazz scholar and musician--takes an in-depth look at the years in which Armstrong was often dismissed as a buffoon-ish, if popular, entertainer, and shows us instead the inventiveness and depth of expression that his music evinced during this time.
These are the years (from after World War II until his death in 1971) when Armstrong entertained crowds around the world and recorded his highest-charting hits, including Mack the Knife and Hello, Dolly; years when he collaborated with, among others, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and Dave Brubeck; when he recorded with strings and big bands, and, of course, with the All-Stars, his primary performing ensemble for more than two decades. And Riccardi makes clear that these were years in which Armstrong at once burnished and enhanced his legacy as one of jazz's most influential figures.
Here, finally, is a book--eminently readable, in-formative, and insightful--that enlarges, and com-pletes, our understanding of a peerless musical genius of commanding influence as both an instrumentalist and a vocalist.
Author: Ricky Riccardi
ISBN: 9780307378446
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Good
G 1625935
Publisher Description:
The first account--prodigiously researched, richly detailed--of the last remarkable twenty-five years of the life and art of one of America's greatest and most beloved musical icons.
Much has been written about Louis Armstrong, but most of it focuses on the early and middle stages of his long career. Now, Ricky Riccardi--jazz scholar and musician--takes an in-depth look at the years in which Armstrong was often dismissed as a buffoon-ish, if popular, entertainer, and shows us instead the inventiveness and depth of expression that his music evinced during this time.
These are the years (from after World War II until his death in 1971) when Armstrong entertained crowds around the world and recorded his highest-charting hits, including Mack the Knife and Hello, Dolly; years when he collaborated with, among others, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and Dave Brubeck; when he recorded with strings and big bands, and, of course, with the All-Stars, his primary performing ensemble for more than two decades. And Riccardi makes clear that these were years in which Armstrong at once burnished and enhanced his legacy as one of jazz's most influential figures.
Here, finally, is a book--eminently readable, in-formative, and insightful--that enlarges, and com-pletes, our understanding of a peerless musical genius of commanding influence as both an instrumentalist and a vocalist.
