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Dr. Klaus Stratemann: Louis Armstrong On The Screen |
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Throughout this century, to the proverbial "man in the street", the one person most closely identified with "jazz music" was "Satchmo", Louis Armstrong. Armstrong’s importance to Afro-American music and his role in the entertainment world, have been the subjects of numerous articles and books, analytical as well as narrative.
This book is different in that it is merely factual, bringing together all the data that could be assembled about Armstrong’s work in films of all genres and on television at home and abroad. With details of film recording and shooting schedules, listings of the record and video issues from his films, itinerary information and, of course, the general film data such as credits, cast, music rundown etc., plus many previously unknown personnels of the units Armstrong collaborated with for the film and television industries, this book is part historiographic, part discography, part filmography and in short, a bonanza of facts about Armstrong and the visual media.
With more than 270 illustration, among them many unpublished photos and rare film documents, the book also provides a visual record of Armstrong in the visual media. It will be of interest not only to the Armstrong collector, but equally to anyone with a general interest of jazz in the visual media. To the collector of jazz records, film and video, this book will be as important as discographical works, and to discographers and jazz historians it will become indispensable because it provides corrections and additions to numerous misconceptions that have long been circulating about Armstrong and the media.
Numerous indexes provide easy access to this wealth of information, from many different angles. Thus, it is a book for the scholar as well as the jazz enthusiast, for the film lover as well as for anyone with an affinity for American show business in general.
Finally, this book is one to just browse through and enjoy the many photos of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong and the numerous celebrities he worked with. |
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