Louis Armstrong: The Offstage Story of Satchmo - Hardcover

Cogswell, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1888054816 ISBN 13: 9781888054811

Publisher: Collectors Pr, 2003

Synopsis

A collection of photos, transcripts, and writings offer an inside look into the life of the jazz musician known as Satchmo.

About this title

About the Author:

MICHAEL COGSWELL was hired by Queens College in 1991 to arrange, preserve, and catalog the collections of the Louis Armstrong Archives. In 1995 the college asked him to lead the project to open the Louis Armstrong House as a museum. Mr. Cogswell has made presentations about Louis Armstrong in Washington, D.C., New Orleans, San Francisco, Milan, Lyon, and Bern, and he has appeared on NPR’s "Fresh Air," ABC-TV’s Nightline, and CBS Sunday Morning. He lives in New York City.

From Booklist:

This is the "official book" of the Louis Armstrong House and Archives, marking its October 15, 2003, grand opening as a national historic museum. That is to say, it is a souvenir book. But what a souvenir book! One culmination of Cogswell's 12-year labor of ordering and cataloging the great jazzman's belongings, it is loaded with some 300 previously unpublished photographs of the trumpeter and his associates; of the house, inside and out; and of letters, other writings, and the collages of photos and clippings that Armstrong created in his spare time. Cogswell presents these in chapters devoted to Armstrong's career, the house, the archives, and "Discoveries"--that is, things that record forgotten and underdocumented aspects of Armstrong's life. Sections within each chapter home in on particular topics, making for an exceptionally browsable book, for which Cogswell's plain writing is pretty much ideal. An invaluable, keenly lovable treasure-trove about a great American, marred only by far too many typos. Ray Olson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Collectors Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1888054816
• ISBN 13: 9781888054811
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192