Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Minority report ...

... Not Even Bing's: On Louis Armstrong. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I think this review is a load of crap, and especially disagree that the book offers "no new revelations about the life or the music." What it offers is a very good explication of the life in terms of the music. That's what it purports to do and, in my view, succeeds in doing.

2 comments:

  1. Not only that, Teachout's biography of Mencken was far inferior to Marion Rodgers's, or even Fred Hobson's.

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  2. I couldn't say, having read none of them. But I did read Pops and I've been listening to Armstrong since the 1940s, and I thought the book was well-written and insightful.

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