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Satchmo
Louis Armstrong
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Description for Satchmo
Paperback. "In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd s Num Pages: 248 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AVGJ; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 244.
"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd stroll up and down the floor and the bar. Those guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy, and there was lots of just plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all, I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn." So says ... Read more
"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd stroll up and down the floor and the bar. Those guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy, and there was lots of just plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all, I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn." So says ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Hachette Books United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306802768
SKU
V9780306802768
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Reviews for Satchmo
New Orleans Times-Picayune, 8/3/14 "Among the most distinguished writers on jazz and American music, Giddens has a knack for weaving musical analysis and biographical detail." Paste Magazine, "The 20 Best Memoirs Written by Musicians," 1/2/15 "An exuberant first-hand account of New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century, before [Louis Armstrong] and others like him brought jazz a worldwide ... Read more