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conversations.value: *Starred Review* Jazz fans have been blessed in 2013 with two exceptional biographies, Stanley Crouchs Kansas City Lightning (the first volume in his life of Charlie Parker) and Terry Teachouts Duke. That pair is now joined by the author monumental follow-up to Louis Armstrongs New Orleans (2006). The focus here is on Armstrongs most fertile period as an instrumental and vocal innovatorin the author convincing argument, a modernistfrom his youthful arrival in Chicago in 1922 to join Joe King Oliver through the years of the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings (culminating, sadly, with the degrading movies of the early 1930s). The strong emphasis, properly, is on the music, with Armstrongs personal life (his marriage, his eccentricities, his marijuana use) handled only superficially. This is an enormously rich, if sometimes difficult, biography, and it delivers a remarkably clear and knowing discussion of a new musical form rooted in African music and the blues. Although his book is not for those unfamiliar with jazz, the author does note, after a particularly dense explication, that the listener does not need this all spelled out... for the ear will recognize it effortlessly and unconsciously. True, but this biography provides an illuminating accompaniment. There has been much written on Armstrong, but the author work, covering an astonishingly creative decade, is comprehensive and firmly grounded in musicology and in the racial and cultural climate of the 1920s. It is voluminously researched, compellingly written, and supported by a valuable discography and bibliography. A bravura accomplishment, soon to be followed, one hopes, by a third volume covering Armstrongs role in midcentury popular music. --Mark Levine
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conversations.value: Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism
  Great Migration from South to North by, 3, 8, 13–15, 32, 39, 40–42, 44–45, 48, 50, 51, 53, 60, 79–80, 109, 115, 190, 325, 370, 374, 440, 452, 515
  LA guided and influenced by, 100–101, 105, 110, 113–15, 118–21, 141, 165–66, 176, 191, 222–23, 291, 292, 312, 314, 430
  Big Butter and Egg Man, 174, 190, 221, 237, 242–43, 244–45, 247–50, 259, 266, 278, 281, 286, 348, 352, 371, 375, 438, 508–9
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conversations.value: Big Butter and Egg Man, 174, 190, 221, 237, 242–43, 244–45, 247–50, 259, 266, 278, 281, 286, 348, 352, 371, 375, 438, 508–9
  Carroll Dickerson's Orchestra, 101, 205, 216, 244, 255, 290, 294, 308–9, 334–37, 340, 347, 491, 510–11
  Dreamland Café in, 14, 21, 70, 71, 73, 77–78, 102–3, 120, 165–71, 175–76, 183, 189, 203–6, 208–9, 453, 458
  Savoy Ballroom in, 282, 285, 287–97, 289, 294, 303–4, 307–10, 310, 324, 327–30, 366, 387, 433, 438, 453
  South Side of, 11, 14, 18, 38, 43–44, 59, 68, 70, 77, 102–3, 130, 131, 141, 168, 178, 190, 194, 224, 412
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conversations.value: LA's playing on riverboats in, 11, 15–16, 29, 34, 71, 104, 106, 121, 180, 189, 198, 199, 214, 313, 418
  Roseland Ballroom in, 120, 130–32, 133, 138–39, 140, 141–42, 145, 149–52, 155, 206, 245, 438, 453, 495
  OKeh Records, 53, 64–65, 100, 107, 127, 159, 165, 204–16, 218–19, 239, 260, 262–63, 282–86, 357–60, 368–71, 381–82, 431, 434
  LA's musical training with, 5, 7–8, 24, 45, 65, 69, 80, 81, 83, 97–98, 107, 109, 110, 118–19, 143, 268, 325, 455–56
  West End Blues, 107, 157, 158, 217, 262, 292–95, 298–302, 308, 312, 324–25, 358, 371, 400, 413, 415, 438, 507, 514