Louis Armstrong: An American GeniusLouis Armstrong. Satchmo. To millions of fans, he was just a great entertainer. But to jazz aficionados, he was one of the most important musicians of our times not only a key figure in the history of jazz but a formative influence on all of 20th century popular music. Set against the backdrop of New Orleans, Chicago, and New York during the jazz age, Collier re creates the saga of an old fashioned black man making it in a white world. He chronicles