Swing That Music
The first autobiography of a jazz musician, Louis Armstrong’s Swing That Music is a milestone in jazz literature. Armstrong wrote most of the biographical material, which is of a different nature and scope than that of his other, later autobiography, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (also published by Da Capo/Perseus Books Group). Satchmo covers in intimate detail Armstrong’s life until his 1922 move to Chicago; but Swing That Music also covers his days on Chicago’s South Side with ”King”...
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The first published writing of the jazz giant, covering his life from his days in New Orleans through his success in Chicago and New York.
Part One Jazz and I Get Born Together In the Trail of "The Dixieland Five" What is "Swing"? Up the Mississippi St. Louis Blues Stormy Weather With "King" Oliver on the South Side To Broadway with Fletcher Henderson "Ain t Misbehain " Sends Me California, Here I Come Highseas and High C s Record Fans and Hot Clubs Swinging Through Europe Jam! I Hope Gabriel Likes Our Music Part Two: Music Section Introduction to Swing Armstrong in the Upper Register Rhythmic Counterpoint Swing Interpolation Melodic Counterpoint Rhythmic Obbligato Melodic Obbligato Examples of Swing on Ten Instruments
