Satchmo

consider before purchase

just FYI, Gary Giddins is obviously a great jazz writer, one of the very best — but this ebook is priced at $19.99 and it is disappointinngly short, more like an expanded magazine article than a book by the usual standards of Giddins. Always diifficult to compare epages against a “real” book, but this one is certainly short, with short chapters as well. Not saying it’s bad by any means, but probably not worth $20 when his full-length books (like his amazing 400 page collection of published jazz articles) are typically priced at that or even lower from online vendors. I didn’t even check tha page total before purchase — I mistakenly assumed that if it was priced as a full length book and it was Giiddins, it must be a long and deep read, but this is not the case. - probably a fine short read, and probably worth more like $10 compared to other very short ebooks with a 20+ yr old publishing date. I haven’t finished it, but that was because I was so disappointed I actually stopped because I could tell I wouild have finished it before the afternoon was over . . . I mean I read an entire chapter in about 10 min, I initially thought I had a broken ebook with missing epages, but the chapter was actually that short. Bottom line, there are many well-regarded books about Louis Armstrong and most were written after this one, and if you’re looking for a nice long read, you might want to spend your money on something a bit more in-depth and immersive than this expanded essay, even if it IS a Giddins essay