Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz)

by Brian Harker (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $20.98

  In Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings, Brian Harker strikes a unique balance between 1920s views of jazz and those of today. For the first time Armstrong's technical achievements are placed in a meaningful cultural context, yielding unexpected insights into these seminal documents of early jazz.