Louis Armstrong
In this book, readers are given a full taste of the lives of three complicated musical artists.
This collector is happy to have Luis Russell: At the Swing Cats Ball with all its faults.
He may be extreme as a polemicist, but Ricky Riccardi shines when he sticks to jazz’s history.
Rarely does a book leave me questioning the ways in which I understood, or thought I understood, the construction of some of the most formative solos in jazz history.
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