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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Louis Armstrong has been called the most important improviser in the history of jazz. Although his New Orleans neighborhood was poor in nearly everything else, it was rich in superb music. Young Louis took it all in, especially the cornet blowing of Joe King Oliver. But after a run in with the police, 11-year-old Louis was sent away to the Colored Waif's Home for Boys where he became a disciplined musician in the school's revered marching band. By...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 594 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The definitive account of Louis Armstrong--his life and legacy--during the most creative period of his career.
Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago's music scene under the tutelage of Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong is recognized as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. A trumpet virtuoso, seductive crooner, and consummate entertainer, Armstrong laid the foundation for the future of jazz with his stylistic innovations,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xii, 475 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Louis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century and a giant of modern American culture. Offstage he was witty, introspective and unexpectedly complex, a beloved colleague with an explosive temper whose larger-than-life personality was tougher and more sharp-edged than his worshipping fans ever knew. Wall Street Journal arts columnist Terry Teachout has drawn on new sources unavailable to previous biographers, including hundreds...
Series
Publisher
S'more Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Offers the definitive portrait of Louis Armstrong, with more than a dozen of his classic film performances from 1932 to the late 1960s, including excerpts from Pennies from Heaven, Betty Boop cartoon, Atlantic City, Going Places, Jam Session New Orleans with Billie Holiday, High Society with Bing Crosby, and Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand. The film also includes live concert and television appearances with Dizzy Gillespie, Jack Teagarden, and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Rev. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the jazz trumpet player who was known as Satchmo.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 14
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
Series
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s jazz fragments into the avant-garde and many divided schools of thought. Many jazz musicians like Dexter Gordon are forced to leave America in search of work while other use the music as a form of social protest: Max Roach, Charles Mingus, and Archie Shepp make overtly political musical statements. John Coltrane appeals to a broad audience before his untimely death. Saxophonist Stan Getz helps boost a craze for bossa nova music, but in...
Series
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Between 1955 and 1960 rhythm and blues and rock ' roll erode jazz' audiences but the music still enjoys tremendous creativity. Saxophonist Sonny Rollins and trumpeter Clifford Brown make their marks while Duke Ellington emerges stronger than ever and Miles Davis and John Coltrane make legendary albums. Louis Armstrong jeopardizes his career when he condemns the government for its failure to act on racism in Little Rock, Ark. Drummer Art Blakely and...
Series
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Between 1945 and 1955 jazz splinters into different camps: cool and hot, East and West, traditional and modern. One by one, the big bands leave the road, but Duke Ellington keeps his band together, while Louis Armstrong puts together a small group, the "All-Stars." Promoter Norman Granz insists on equal treatment for every member of his integrated troupes on his Jazz at the Philharmonic Tours. Meanwhile, bebop musicians Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie...
Series
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From 1917 through 1924 the "Jazz Age" begins with speakeasies, flappers and easy money for some. The story of jazz becomes a tale of two cities, Chicago and New York and of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, whose lives and music will span three-quarters of a century. This episode also follows the careers of jazz greats James Reese Europe, King Oliver, Willie Smith, Fletcher Henderson, Paul Whiteman and James P. Johnson.
Series
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
By 1924 to 1928 jazz is everywhere in America and spreading abroad. For the first time, soloists and singers take center stage, transforming the music with their distinctive voices. This episode traces the careers of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Sidney Bechet, Bessie Smith, Earl Hines, Ethel Waters, Bix Beiderbecke, the first great white jazz artist and Benny Goodman, the son of Jewish immigrants.
Series
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Amid the hard times of the Depression new dances, the Lindy Hop and Swing, caught on at the dance halls of New York even as the jobless lined the streets and drought ruined Midwest farms. Jazz, during 1929 through 1935, lifted the nation's spirit. Record sales boomed while Armstrong became a major entertainer as singer, trumpeter, band leader, radio and film performer. Ellington's elegance, compositions, brilliant band films and recordings created...
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