[Dixielandjazz] Thomas Brothers' Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism

[Charles Suhor]

I haven't read Brothers' new book, Joe, but I found your and Riccardi's ideas to be in sync with my review his 2006 LOUIS ARMSTRONG'S NEW ORLEANS. Riccardi's lengthy piece gets a bit picky at times, but he rightly decimates much of Brothers' thesis with data, data, and more data. I really liked many things about Brothers' 2006 book, especially the discussions of heterophony and the Sanctified Church. But as in the current book, Brothers started out with some a priori assumptions and ignored or minimized evidence to the contrary. Anecdote: In August of 2006, the city was barely emerging from the ravages of Katrina, but the second annual Satchmo festival went on. At a reception for presenters, a distinguished participant told me that Brothers reproached him angrily because of a mixed review of the book. I was glad that my review in the Jazz Journalist Association's "Jazz Notes" (mercifully abridged, below) didn't appear until December. 

Charlie

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On Oct 9, 2014, at 7:55 PM, Joe Carbery wrote:

> Back in May this year I submitted to this list a copy of a review of the
> above book which I had submitted to Amazon. I described the book as a
> disappointment and was pretty critical of it.
> A review by Ricky Riccardi has appeared in the Summer 2014 issue of
> the *Journal
> of Jazz Studies. *(Available on-line.)
> Mr Riccardi also has many criticisms and takes issue with many of
> Brothers' conclusions.
> 
> Joe Carbery.
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