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Satchmo The Genius Of Louis Armstrong  Gary
Giddins Da Capo Press, 2001 (first published in 1988) Paperback. 215pp. £12.50 
Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong
has been called the most influential musician of the twentieth century:
his magnificent career as a trumpet player, singer, bandleader and actor
made him a legend in his own time. His influence on jazz and popular music
is impossible to overstate. Gary Giddins has been called "the best
jazz writer in America today" (Esquire). Together this auspicious
pairing has resulted in Satchmo, one of the most vivid and insightful
portraits ever drawn of this superlative artist. Giddins was the first writer
to have access to Armstrong's unpublished writings, and he uses them to
deftly recount Louis's colourful and sometimes controversial life. The result
is an intimate biography, uniquely balanced in its treatment of his music
and his life.
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