Louis Armstrong and Paul WhitemanAuthor :
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Published : Monday 11 October 2004
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A dual biography of two great innovators in the history of jazz. One was black, one was whiteâ?"one is now legendary, the other nearly forgotten. In Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman thejazz scholar Joshua Berrett offers a provocative revision of the history of early jazz by focusing on two of its most notable practitionersâ?"Whiteman, legendary in his day, and Armstrong, a legend ever since. Paul Whitemanâ?Ts fame was unmatched throughout the twenties. Bix Beiderbecke, Bing Crosby, and Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey honed their craft on his bandstand. Celebrated as the â?oKing of Jazzâ?? in 1930 in a Universal Studios feature film, Whitemanâ?Ts imperium has declined considerably since. The legend of Louis Armstrong, in contrast, grows ever more lustrous: for decades it has been Armstrong, not Whiteman, who has worn the kingâ?Ts crown. This dual biography explores these diverging legacies in the context of race, commerce, and the history of early jazz. Early jazz, Berrett argues, was not a story of black innovators and white usurpers. In this book, a much richer, more complicated story emergesâ?"a story of cross-influences, sidemen, sundry movers and shakers who were all part of a collective experience that transcended the category of race. In the world of early jazz, Berrett contends, kingdoms had no borders.
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