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How to Listen to Jazz
by Douglas Groothuis
All About Jazz readers are usually very hip to the joys and challenges of listening to this uniquely American and endlessly fascinating art form we call jazz. Aficionados of jazz like to talk about jazz, like to recommend jazz to others, and like to listen to how others listen to jazz. This is why strangers can so easily talk jazz. In that spirit, consider how to grow even bigger ears for the music. Obstacles may stand in ...
Continue ReadingJazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties
by Enrico Bettinello
Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties Robert Nippoldt & Hans-Jürgen Schaal 144 pagine ISBN: 978-3836545013 Taschen 2014 Poco più che trentacinquenne, l'illustratore tedesco Robert Nippoldt ha la capacità di fare sognare. Con un tratto semplice e incisivo, ma al tempo stesso profumato di nostalgia, si sta dedicando in questi anni a evocare l dell'America della prima metà del Novecento, disegnando i fasti di Hollywood o la storia dei gangster ...
Continue ReadingPops – The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout
by C. Michael Bailey
Pops--The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong Terry Teachout 508 Pages ISBN: # 1906779562 Aurum Press 2014 Critic Terry Teachout published his biography of Louis Armstrong, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) in 2009, republishing it under the present title of Pops--The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong in Kindle and hardcover format. Qualitatively, the biographies are the same. Teachout as biographer has benefitted from all previous Armstrong reportage plus recently ...
Continue ReadingSecond “Louie” Awards Gala: New York, NY, December 4, 2012
by Daniel Kassell
Louis Armstrong House Museum 2012 GalaThe Manhattan PenthouseNew York, NYDecember 4, 2012While waiting their turn to play as the Louis Armstrong Centennial Band, trumpeter/vocalist Bria Skonberg, clarinetist Anat Cohen, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, banjoist James Chirillo, tubaist David Ostwald and drummer Marion Felder enjoyed a great meal before the Second Annual Louis Armstrong House Museum Gala on December 4, 2012 on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. MC Michael Cogswell--21-year Director of the Museum and a former musician--recognized everyone ...
Continue ReadingLouis Armstrong & The All Stars: Satchmo At Symphony Hall - The Complete Performances
by Skip Heller
Louis Armstrong & The All StarsSatchmo At Symphony Hall: 65th Anniversary The Complete PerformancesVerve 2012 Writing about trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong is difficult. In the most literal sense, he is the watershed of jazz. He was neither the first acknowledged genius of the music (soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was) nor its inventor, but in his wake, jazz was made in his image. The best of it still is, even as the ...
Continue ReadingFinal Call to See "Pops" Making Records
by Fradley Garner
Final Call to See “Pops" Making Records September, 2012 is final call to catch Genius at Work: Louis Armstrong in the Recording Studio, the currently featured exhibit at the Louis Armstrong House and Museum in Corona, Queens, New York. “Records as well as photographs, scores and other artifacts reveal Armstrong hard at work recording his masterpieces," Jen Walden, a museum spokesperson tells me. “These treasures give you an inside look into what went on at the sessions, allowing ...
Continue ReadingJazz Musicians with Eccentricities
by Chris May
Some of the 20th century's greatest eccentrics were jazz musicians. That is no surprise, given the link which psychologists long ago suggested exists between creative thinking and “abnormal" behavior, and which has been confirmed by recent neurological research locating both activities within the same area of the brain. Trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong's lifelong evangelizing of patent medicine laxatives is well known--the trumpeter famously had greetings cards made which showed him photographed sitting on the toilet, his pants ...
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