2/01/2010

Satchmo: the Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong

SATCHMO: THE WONDERFUL WORLD AND ART OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG by Steven Brower (Abrams)
Just as the technical limitations of jazz-age audio recording give an unintended aural patina to Louis Armstrong’s early music, the browning of decades-old scotch-taped photos, typewritten notes and vintage clippings adds to the visual beauty of Satchmo’s reel-tape box and scrapbook collages, creating a mesmerizing 50-year visual biography.

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