Tom Von Malder of Owls Head, a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, reviews “Louis Armstrong: Louis Wishes You a Cool Yule,” “Jane Monheit: The Merriest,” “Neil Diamond:
/PRNewswire/ With his first break into songwriting in the 1960s, his meteoric rise in the 1970s, and plenty of crushing disappointments and heart-stopping.