Thomas Brothers is the author of Help! The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration; Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans; and Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A professor of music at Duke University, he lives with his family in Durham, North Carolina.
"Thomas Brothers has brought together startling new discoveries and
insights, a fresh look at hallowed recordings, and an understanding
of the multifold influences that helped shape Louis Armstrong. In
so doing, he has written by far the most complete and original look
at an American icon whose influence continues into its second
century."
*Loren Schoenberg, artistic director, the National Jazz Museum in
Harlem*
"Honest, uncompromising, and wholly sympathetic to its subject,
Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism is the ideal for jazz
biography and criticism."
*Scott DeVeaux, author of The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical
History*
"Brothers proves his thesis and then some…an encyclopedic
authority."
*C.W. Mahoney - American Spectator*
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