Louis Armstrong Collages in The Paris Review

The Spring 2008 issue of The Paris Review has a wonderful article about Louis Armstrong's collages. The Paris Review: " When not pressing the valves on his trumpet or the record button on his tape recorder, Armstrong’s fingers found other arts with which to occupy themselves. One of them was collage, which became a visual outlet for his improvisational genius. The story goes that he did a series of collages on paper and tacked them up on the wall of his den, but Lucille, who had supervised the purchase and interior decoration of their house in Corona, Queens, objected. Armstrong decided to use his extensive library of tapes as a canvas instead, and the result is a collection of some five hundred decorated reel-to-reel boxes, one thousand collages counting front and back"

Here's another collage I found on the net. From scrapbook #55, n.d. Louis Armstrong Mixed-media collage Courtesy of the Louis Armstrong Archive Queens College, CUNY

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