Ricky Riccardi

Stomp Off, Let's Go (eBook, ePUB)

The Early Years of Louis Armstrong

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Stomp Off, Let's Go, author Ricky Riccardi offers a fresh take on the most widely discussed period of Louis Armstrong's life. Tracing the trumpeter's meteoric rise to fame from childhood in New Orleans all the way to Chicago, where he changed the course of music with the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, Riccardi foregrounds the voices of Armstrong and his contemporaries to explore Armstrong's path and relationships more intimately, in turn providing essential insights into how Armstrong rose to become one of America's most beloved icons.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197614501
• Artikelnr.: 72647339

Autorenporträt

Ricky Riccardi is Director of Research Collections for the Louis Armstrong House Museum, and author of What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years and Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong. In 2022, he won a GRAMMY Award for Best Album Notes for The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia and RCA Studio Sessions 1946-1966. He has delivered lectures on Armstrong at venues around the world and has taught Armstrong courses for Jazz at Lincoln Center's Swing University and at Queens College, CUNY. Riccardi has a degree in Jazz History and Research from Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Prologue
"My Whole Life, My Whole Soul, My Whole Spirit" * 1. "A Firecracker Baby!"
1901
1906 * 2. "Everything Happened in the Brick Row"
1906
1910 * 3. "Like a Human Being"
1910
1911 * 4. "Nothing Could Stop Him"
1911
1912 * 5. "Blessed Assurance"
1912 * 6. "Hooray for Louis Armstrong!"
1913
14 * 7. "I Would Gladly Live It Over Again"
1914 * 8. "Destined to be Great"
1914
1915 * 9. "The Memory of the Bullies and Trouble Makers"
1916 * 10. "My Fairy God Father"
1916
17 * 11. "Just Wasn't My Time to Die, Man"
1917 * 12. "Had to Eat"
1917
18 * 13. "Nothing But Fuck and Fight"
1918
19 * 14. "They Loved Us"
1919 * 15. "Descending the Sky Like a God"
1919
21 * 16. "Son, You Got a Chance"
1921
22 * 17. "I Always Played Pretty Under Him"
1922 * 18. "The Hot Miss Lil"
1922
23 * 19. "He's Got to be Better"
1923
1924 * 20. "Second Trumpet to No One"
1924 * 21. "Big Headed Motherfuckers"
1924
25 * 22. "I Know I Can Play and I Know I Can Sing"
1925 * 23. "The World's Greatest Jazz Cornetist"
1925
1926 * 24. "I Got the Heebies"
1926 * 25. "The Latest Novelty"
1926 * 26. "Just Keep on Blowing"
1927 * 27. "Awful Glorious Days"
1927
28 * 28. "A Record of Importance"
1928 * 29. "Louis Had Changed the Whole World"
1929 * Epilogue
"I Never Did Leave New Orleans" * Index