What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years

Title: What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years Author: Ricky Riccardi ISBN: 9780307378446 Publisher: Pantheon Published: 2011 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Good G 1625935 Publisher Description: The first account--prodigiously researched, richly detailed--of the last remarkable twenty-five years of the life and art of one of America's greatest and most beloved musical icons. Much has been written about Louis Armstrong, but most of it focuses on the early and middle stages of his long career. Now, Ricky Riccardi--jazz scholar and musician--takes an in-depth look at the years in which Armstrong was often dismissed as a buffoon-ish, if popular, entertainer, and shows us instead the inventiveness and depth of expression that his music evinced during this time. These are the years (from after World War II until his death in 1971) when Armstr