December 13, 2009

Professor Pritchard on Teachout's Armstrong bio

William H. Pritchard ‘53, Henry Clay Folger Professor of English at the College, reviews Terry Teachout’s new biography of Louis Armstrong, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, in The Boston Globe today.

In his commentary on some of these sides…Teachout shows himself to be gifted with not only a trained ear but prose adequate to expressing what he hears… The master at this sort of on-the-spot jazz description was the New Yorker’s Whitney Balliett; Teachout is equally good at it, and this reader could only wish there were time for similar accounts of all the great Armstrong solos.

Brian Meacham '97 | December 13, 2009 06:42 PM | Faculty

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