Louis Armstrong, American Icon
POPS
A Life of Louis Armstrong
By Terry Teachout
Illustrated. 475 pages.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $30.
Today, the NYT reviewed a new biography of legendary musician Louis Armstrong: “With ‘Pops,’ his eloquent and important new biography of Armstrong, the critic and cultural historian Terry Teachout restores this jazzman to his deserved place in the pantheon of American artists, building upon Gary Giddins’s excellent 1988 study, ‘Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong,’ and offering a stern rebuttal of James Lincoln Collier’s patronizing 1983 book, ‘Louis Armstrong: An American Genius.’”
Rest of NYT review here:
