Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) is best known for his legendary, ground-breaking jazz sides in the late-1920s. By the late-1960s, though, jazz had undergone a metamorphosis, from popular largely apolitical dance music to an avant-garde politicized Black art movement. Musicians were experimenting with modal, atonal, spiritual, free and fusion sounds led by Davis, Mingus, Coleman, Coltrane, and a generation of performers who saw Armstrong as a forefather at best and corny sellout at worst. After the... Читать дальше...