Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism by Brothers Thomas

Author:Brothers, Thomas [Brothers, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

When Armstrong finished the December 1928 recordings, he probably did not know that he would soon be leaving his own personal “second city.” Chicago, after New Orleans, is inseparable from his musical achievement. In each place his accomplishments were built around a strong African-American identity, Chicago’s being somewhat dependent on New Orleans, with the transformative power of the Great Migration accounting for much of the difference. His career for the next few years would be more peripatetic—a year in New York City, a little less in California, a summer in New Orleans, some time in England, and so forth. No other place would have the impact of Chicago, where he apprenticed with Oliver, broke away and married, stepped into the spotlight as a great soloist at premiere venues, and generated a long and rewarding series of recordings. Most of the places he knew in New Orleans are now gone forever, and even less survives as material witness to these glorious years in Chicago. The surviving witnesses are mainly the discs, cheaply made products that provide priceless access to a monumental musical achievement now recognized as one of the world’s great flourishings of artistic production.

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