Author and
music professor Thomas Brothers picks up where he left off with his first
exploration of the coronet master in Louis
Armstrong’s New Orleans by detailing Armstrong’s arrival in Chicago and his
career moving forward from the point in Louis
Armstrong – Master of Modernism.
Brothers paints
an intimate portrait not only of Armstrong and his music, but of the era when
he became a legendary performer and star. Following his trek north from New Orleans,
Chicago proved to be not only a safe haven from the racial tensions and bigotry
of the era, but also a catalyst in inspiring one of Armstrong’s most creative
outbursts, set against the back drop of the Depression.
Brothers
follows Armstrong through everything from his time on the road to his creative
and innovative side and even into his personal life, often weaving in detail
and observations culled from many of Armstrong’s friends and musical
contemporaries. He delivers a true sense of the time with a historians
practiced tone.
It is from
that racially charged landscape that Armstrong emerged as not only one of our
greatest musical innovators, but also one of the best known, most prolific
performers. Brothers tells this amazing story by compiling a miraculous amount
of detail from a tremendous range of source material to offer up new insight
into oft-told story.
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