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TT: Gone (for now) but not forgotten

November 15, 2011 by Terry Teachout

I’m worn out from last week’s travels, and so have withdrawn from the world for a couple of days of total seclusion. I’m reading P.G. Wodehouse novels, listening to music, seeing no shows, and doing no work of any kind.
Pizzarelli-Molaskey_Tanglewood_JF_2010-KFranckling-038sm_depth1.jpgI am, however, checking my e-mail from time to time, which is why I know that my downstairs neighbors were kind enough to send me a link to a recent episode of Radio Deluxe, the John Pizzarelli-Jessica Molaskey radio show. If you listen to the second track, a performance of “Let’s Fall in Love” by Louis Armstrong and the Oscar Peterson, you’ll hear John and Jess serve up a big fat plug for Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, which is still selling two years after the fact. How cool is that?
I’m also pleased to report that Pops is going be published in Russia, though the publisher has yet to get in touch with me about it. Indeed, I have a sneaking suspicion that the Russian edition of Pops may not redound to my benefit! Be that as it may, I’m pleased to know that my magnum opus will be translated into yet another language, and that an excerpt will soon appear in Jazz.Ru, Russia’s only jazz magazine (read all about it here).
And now…back to inactivity.

TT: Almanac

November 15, 2011 by Terry Teachout

“What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
André Malraux, Antimémoires

Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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