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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A valuable, jubilant look at a great man and artist.-New York Times Book Review<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Gary Giddins has been called the best jazz writer in America today (<i>Esquire</i>). Louis Armstrong has been called the most influential jazz musician of the century. Together this auspicious pairing has resulted in <i>Satchmo, </i> one of the most vivid and fascinating portraits ever drawn of perhaps the greatest figure in the history of American music. Available now at a new price, this text-only edition is the authoritative introduction to Armstrong's life and art for the curious newcomer, and offers fresh insight even for the serious student of Pops.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Gary Giddins</b> wrote the Weather Bird jazz column in the <i>Village Voice</i> for over 30 years and later directed the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received the National Nook Critics Circle Award, the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, and the Bell Atlantic Award for <i>Visions of Jazz: The First Century in 1998</i>. <p/> His other books include <i>Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-The Early Years, 1930-1940</i>, which won the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award and the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research; <i>Weatherbird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century; Faces in the Crowd; Natural Selection; Warning Shadow</i>; and biographies of Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. He has won six ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Peabody Award in Broadcasting. He lives in New York, NY.

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