6 rows · Thomas Brothers is the author of Help! The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Brand: Norton, W. W. Company, Inc. Using Armstrong as the thread, Mr. Brothers weaves the story of how Jazz developed in New Orleans. The slaves displaced by their very freedom traveled away from the farms into the cities. They brought with them the field hollers of their fathers (and grandfathers) as well as the musical raucous religious tradition that was as boisterous as the white men's religion was solemn/5. Thomas Brothers has pulled off the near-impossible for a youngish man living in the 21st century. He has managed to dissect and explain most of the complex social and musical interactions in New Orleans as they existed in the years when Louis Armstrong was growing up, coming of age, and learning his way around the horn and the music business/5(30).
Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism By Thomas Brothers W. W. Norton Company, pages, $ A massive, and massively detailed new biography, reminds music mavens that jazz pioneer Louis. Louis Armstrong's New Orleans by Thomas Brothers, W.W. Norton and Company, Red Hot Jazz Archive www.doorway.ru was a pioneering website during the "Information wants to be Free" era of the s. Louis Armstrong's New Orleans. By Thomas Brothers. pages. $ W.W. Norton. Louis Armstrong, at 20, was a New Orleans cornet player sharpening his chops when he landed in the Tuxedo Brass Band.
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans interweaves a searching account of early twentieth-century New Orleans with a narrative of the first twenty-one years of Armstrong's life. Drawing on a stunning body of first-person accounts, this book tells the rags-to-riches tale of Armstrong's early life and the social and musical forces that shaped him. The city and the musician are both extraordinary, their relationship unique, and their impact on American culture incalculable. 16 pages of illustrations. In Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans, author and Armstrong scholar Thomas Brothers illustrates the indelible imprints left on Armstrong by New Orleans and its music.#. Brothers’ book draws from a wealth of autobiographies, memoirs, and interviews with family, friends, and fellow musicians. In a June, interview with Jerry Jazz Musician publisher Joe Maita, Brothers discusses the city and musician whose impact on American culture is immense. xii, pages: 21 cm. Drawing on many accounts, this work tells the rags-to-riches tale of Louis Armstrong's early life and the social and musical forces that shaped him. A tale of a musician, his city and the origins of jazz, it interweaves an account of early 20th-century New Orleans with a narrative of the first 21 years of Armstrong's life. Includes bibliographical references (pages ) and index.
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