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Review: A revisionist biography of jazz legend Louis Armstrong

Satchmo's determination to entertain won him disdain from many who dismissed much of what he did after 1929 as middlebrow slumming. With this eloquent new biography, critic and cultural historian Terry Teachout restores this jazz man to his deserved place in the pantheon.

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19:47 on December 15 2009

Review: A revisionist biography of jazz legend Louis Armstrong

Mercury News, California — Satchmo's determination to entertain won him disdain from many who dismissed much of what he did after 1929 as middlebrow slumming. With this eloquent new biography, crit... more info

Louis Armstrong