Thomas Brothers is a professor of music at Duke University, where he teaches jazz, rock, African-American music and late medieval music.
Thomas Brothers has brought together startling new discoveries and insights, a fresh look at hallowed recordings, and an understanding of the multifold influences that helped shape Louis Armstrong. In so doing, he has written by far the most complete and original look at an American icon whose influence continues into its second century. -- Loren Schoenberg, artistic director, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem Honest, uncompromising, and wholly sympathetic to its subject, Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism is the ideal for jazz biography and criticism. -- Scott DeVeaux, author of The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History Brothers proves his thesis and then some...an encyclopedic authority. -- C.W. Mahoney