{"id":945,"date":"2009-12-04T11:09:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T16:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=945"},"modified":"2012-02-25T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T18:11:17","slug":"terry-teachout-bss-314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/terry-teachout-bss-314\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Teachout (BSS #314)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Teachout is most recently the author of <i>Pops<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/teachoutt.jpg\" alt=\"teachoutt\" title=\"teachoutt\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4261\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-945-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=945-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo314.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 38:29 &#8212; 35.2MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Playing for handy water closets.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/aboutlastnight\/\">Terry Teachout<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b>  Managing professional duties, the exigencies of sifting through 650 reels of Louis Armstrong&#8217;s tapes, Armstrong&#8217;s encounters with the mob, Armstrong&#8217;s relationship with manager Joe Glaser, the aborted Duke Ellington collaborative album, Pierre &#8220;Frenchy&#8221; Tallerie&#8217;s rough tour management, Frenchy as company spy, the effect of Armstrong&#8217;s star status on his musicians, the disparity between the net worth of Armstrong&#8217;s estate and Glaser&#8217;s estate, Armstrong&#8217;s remarks on the Little Rock Nine, FBI files and FOIA requests, condemnations Armstrong received in later years, rivalry between Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie, James Baldwin, Armstrong&#8217;s aversion to bebop, why Armstrong didn&#8217;t break from his popular style,  whether or not an artist has a responsibility to push past a middlebrow reception, floundering artists, disbanding the All Stars and improving the musical dynamic with the All Stars&#8217;s second iteration, Armstrong&#8217;s unexpected late career collaboration with Dave Brubeck, Armstrong&#8217;s ability to sell records during the Great Administration, popular tunes and mainstream accessibility in the 1920s, the dangers of critical consensus, Armstrong&#8217;s in-performance improvisation within &#8220;Stardust,&#8221; Armstrong&#8217;s unwavering affinity for the Swiss Kriss herbal laxative, the 1953 conflict between Armstrong and Benny Goodman, the question of artistic ego, the entertainer&#8217;s instinct, Armstrong&#8217;s conflict with Earl Hines&#8217;s showboating, Duke Ellington&#8217;s insistence on top billing, Armstrong&#8217;s tour of England and racist critics, the mistaken notion of Europe as an Eden for jazz musicians, exploring reception histories, Armstrong&#8217;s lawsuit with OKeh Records, the difficulty of collating Armstrong&#8217;s correspondence, Armstrong as writer, and self-awareness.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B> <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> In light of Armstrong&#8217;s remarks about the Little Rock Nine, and of course his infamous remarks about Eisenhower, did the guy have an FBI file?  Were you able to&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p><b>Teachout:<\/b> He did.  It was mostly innocuous.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Oh, okay.<\/p>\n<p><b>Teachout:<\/b> There just isn&#8217;t anything of interest in it.  I know this because I&#8217;ve seen it, but also because I FOIAed Joe Glaser.  He doesn&#8217;t have a file.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> None?<\/p>\n<p><b>Teachout:<\/b> None.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Despite his mob connections?<\/p>\n<p><b>Teachout:<\/b> I appealed the decision to make sure.  And they told me that there was no file in Glaser.  And this is a guy whose business was taken over by Sidney Korshak, who has an FBI file the size of the Encyclopedia Brittanica. So I can only assume that the FBI saw Glaser as too small-time in terms of their interests to start a file on him.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Unless, of course, it was expunged in some capacity.<\/p>\n<p><b>Teachout:<\/b> It could have been.  I don&#8217;t have any reason to think that it was and, since Korshak&#8217;s file wasn&#8217;t, I assumed that there simply wasn&#8217;t anything there.  Armstrong&#8217;s file contains nothing of any interest because he didn&#8217;t play at political benefits.  I mean, the FBI was aware of the fact that he used marijuana.  Because he was vetted by the State Department.  But other than that, there wasn&#8217;t anything that was even worth passing on in the book.   I mention actually in one of the endnotes that he had a file and that its contents were of no interest.  But Glaser &#8212; we were all on pins.  I had actually alerted the Armstrong Archive that I FOIAed Glaser.  Because no one had ever thought to do this before.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> Wow.<\/p>\n<p><b>Teachout:<\/b> And it took me a year and a half from end to end, from the original Freedom of Information request to wrapping up the appeal and concluding that there just wasn&#8217;t anything there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4262\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-945-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=945-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo314.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 38:29 &#8212; 35.2MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Teachout is most recently the author of Pops. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Playing for handy water closets. Author: Terry Teachout Subjects Discussed: Managing professional duties, the exigencies of sifting through 650 reels of Louis Armstrong&#8217;s tapes, Armstrong&#8217;s encounters with the mob, Armstrong&#8217;s relationship with manager Joe Glaser, the aborted Duke Ellington collaborative album, Pierre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4263\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-945-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=945-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo314.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo314.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 38:29 &#8212; 35.2MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1086,1087],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}