Not a wonderful world: why Louis Armstrong was hated by so many
The reality is far more complicated ... Louis Armstrong. Photograph: Eliot Elisofon/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images The reality is far more complicated ... Louis Armstrong. Photograph: Eliot Elisofon/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images Casual listeners think of him as a gentle giant of jazz, but critics and African Americans often saw him as a sell out or ‘Uncle Tom’. A new book aims to show how radical ‘Pops’ really was EdPrideaux Thu 17 Dec 2020 05.08 EST Last modified on Fri 18 Dec 2020 06.15 EST “I cannot think of another American artist who so failed his own talen...
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