Louis Armstrong was a: jazz legend, marijuana supporter (he smoked every day), slang inventor (he is cited as the first to use the terms cats, chops, daddy, jive, mellow, pops, scat, solid), actor (he appeared in over thirty films), writer, barrier-crosser, and, as author Steven Brower points out in the introduction to Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong (Abrams, 256 pages, $35), a talented and dedicated collagist.
Drawing from over 20 scrapbooks and 650 collages (all made on tape boxes), the book follows Armstrong’s life from his birth in 1901 (New Orleans) to his death in 1971 (New York City).
Author Steven Brower (Woody Guthrie Artworks) is a teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. The book is available here.
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Like this story on Armstrong and it shows what a great creative talent he was.