The Armstrong record that I personally like the most, is a recording of a song by Harold Arlen called, "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues" . Most of Ar…

- Terry Teachout

Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay publicity. Cr…

- Terry Teachout

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

- Terry Teachout

(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of…

- Terry Teachout

I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me…

- Terry Teachout

I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's simply no question about it.…

- Terry Teachout

We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is fi…

- Terry Teachout

EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes growing moist.

- Terry Teachout

This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

- Terry Teachout