Oliver
May 04, 2012
Meet the Next Louis Armstrong
People uncowed by the tyranny of history should take up the jazz trumpet. Others would be smart to try another instrument—or avoid music, where the specter of the past is always looming, and seems to loom larger and larger in the Youtube era. READ MORE >>
February 22, 2012
That is So! That is So!
The Sense of an Ending By Julian Barnes (Knopf, 163 pp., $23.95) READ MORE >>
September 22, 2010
The Road to Mastery
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong By Terry Teachout (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 475 pp., $30) Duke Ellington’s America By Harvey G. Cohen (University of Chicago Press, 688 pp., $40) Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original By Robin D.G. Kelley (Free Press, 588 pp., $30) READ MORE >>
