The Young Louis Armstrong on RecordsThe Young Louis Armstrong on Records

The concentration of scholars on jazz trumpeter Armstrong's output from the 1930s forward, argues musicologist and fiction writer Brooks, has obscured the immense evolutionary impact he had on jazz before that. The field notoriously lacking both written history and notated performance, he relies on the 300 or so recordings up to 1928 as the primary evidence for that evolution. He analyzes them year by year. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Comprehensive chronological survey and analysis of every recording on which Louis Armstrong played during the period 1923 to 1928. Armstrong's immense impact on the evolution of jazz is found primarily in these early recordings, and Brooks's close examination of this period is important, as much of this influence becomes obscured by later recordings. Glossary, bibliography, and title index.