[Dixielandjazz] JazzTimes interview with Terry Teachout, Armstrong biographer

[Norman Vickers]

To:  DJML, Musicians and Jazzfans list, Pensacola Mencken list

From: Norman Vickers, Jazz Society of Pensacola

 

Here's link to JazzTimes interview with Terry Teachout, biographer of Louis
Armstrong.  Teachout was an active bassist in Kansas City late 70s-80s.  Now
he's writer in NYC.  Writes for Wall Street Journal among others.

 

I'm also sending this to the Pensacola Mencken list because Teachout wrote a
biography of H. L. Mencken.  I had hoped that Teachout would be a speaker at
the Armstrong Conference ( Satchmo Summerfest) in New Orleans this August.
I was told that he was invited but his schedule couldn't accommodate.

 

Teachout, I understand has written libretto for an opera, but that wasn't
mentioned in the JazzTimes article.

They did touch on the fact that Teachout, being a professional musician,
could write with a certain authority and background which non-musicians
lack.

 

It's a bit too long to send the entire  article, so I'm sending you the
link:

http://jazztimes.com/articles/26271-terry-teachout-the-balance-between-schol
arship-readability

 

 
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