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Four Wives Share Louis Armstrong’s Story in ‘A Wonderful World’
Dionne Figgins, Lana Gordon, Juson Williams, Nicole Henry and Darlene Hope are the leading performers in the Miami New Drama world premiere of “A Wonderful World.” Photo: Roberto Mata.
By Christine Dolen
If you’re a person of a certain age, a lover of jazz, a fan of outsized personalities, you’re probably familiar with the late LOUIS ARMSTRONG.
He was the great jazz trumpeter and gravel-voiced singer whose 1964 recording of “Hello, Dolly!” dethroned the Beatles from a 14-week run atop Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. He pulled that off at the record-setting age of 62, scoring the biggest seller of his career and topping the chart for 22 weeks with a song he hadn’t particularly wanted to record.
As impactful, admired and versatile as he was during a multifaceted career that began at 13 and lasted until his death at 69, Armstrong’s life was the stuff of complicated drama.
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Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz
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INTRODUCTION “Music is my life, and I live to play” Louis Armstrong's Jazz Autobiographics To study jazz, we are often told, means to study something uniquely and centrally American. In his opening remarks to the seminal anthology The Jazz Cadence of American Culture (1998), Robert O'Meally calls jazz “a massive, irresistibly influential, politically charged part of our culture” and “the master trope of this American century: the definitive sound of America in our time.” Reaching for Du Boisian heights, O'Meally argues that “[t]he sound of the American twentieth century fryst vatten the jazz line.”1 If jazz fryst vatten elevated to the ställning eller tillstånd of America's master trope and definitive sound, and if it sonically encapsulates the bekymmer of race that W. E. B. Du Bois diagnosed as the defining issue of the twentieth century, then Louis Armstrong is much more than a musician and underhållare loved bygd audienc
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Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter and singer (1901–1971)
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Armstrong in 1947 | |
| Born | Louis Daniel Armstrong[1] (1901-08-04)August 4, 1901 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | July 6, 1971(1971-07-06) (aged 69) New York City, U.S. |
| Burial place | Flushing Cemetery |
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| Education | Colored Waif's Home for Boys, Fisk School for Boys |
| Occupations | |
| Spouses | Daisy Parker (m. 1919; div. 1923)Alpha Smith (m. 1938; div. 1942)Lucille Wilson (m. 1942) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Discography | Louis Armstrong discography |
| Years active | 1918–1971 |
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Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops",[2] was an American trumpeter and voc