Amazingly enough, I’m not even close to finished with Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. Among other things, I’ll be talking about the book at New York’s Bryant Park at 12:30 on Wednesday, August 11, accompanied by the fabulous jazz trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso, who’ll play before I speak and supply some relevant musical examples during the speech itself.
Alas, the New Yorker, which used to check its facts, got the date of my appearance wrong in its Goings On About Town section. If you show up on August 4, I won’t be there–I’ll be up in New Hampshire, seeing the Peterborough Players’ production of Tartuffe. So kindly ignore the New Yorker and come hear Jon-Erik and me and me do our thing next Wednesday!
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