Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong | Gary Giddins
Gary Giddins has been called "the best jazz writer in America today" by Esquire Magazine. Louis Armstrong has been called the most influential jazz musician of the twentieth century. His magnificent career as trumpeter, singer, bandleader and actor made him a legend in his own time. His influence on jazz and popular music is impossible to overstate. Satchmo is one of the most vivid and insightful portraits ever drawn of the great man and superlative artists in the history of American music.
