Satchmo's Shadow: An Excerpt from Satchmo at the Waldorf

TERRY TEACHOUT, drama critic for The Wall Street Journal, is the author of Satchmo at the Waldorf (2011), which premiered in Orlando, Fla., and was produced in 2012 at Shakespeare & Company of Lenox, Mass., Long Wharf Theatre of New Haven, Conn., and Philadelphia's Wilma Theater. He received a Gug genheim Fellowship to support the completion of his latest book, Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington (2013). His other books include All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine (2004), Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong (2009), and The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken (2002). He has also written the libretti for three operas by Paul Moravec: The Letter (2009), Danse Russe (2011), and The King's Man (2013).