In his exceptional biography of Louis Armstrong, Terry Teachout pointed out that jazz was in everything that Pops recorded. Even his poppiest hits including “Hello, Dolly!” and “What a Wonderful World,” Pops incorporated jazz elements into them. Pops is an engaging read as Teachout unfolds of the...
Time’s cover story had contained only an evasive reference to “a separation from his wife that became permanent,” a sentence even more obscure than the one included in the magazine’s earlier story about the premiere of Black, Brown and Beige (“His wife, from whom he has been separated for many ye...