DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Swing That Music

Louis Armstrong author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hachette Books

Published:22nd Aug '93

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Swing That Music cover

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" Oliver, his courtship and marriage to Lil Hardin, his 1929 move to New York, the formation of his own band, his European tours, and his international success. One of the most earnest justifications ever written for the new style of music then called "swing" but more broadly referred to as "Jazz," Swing That Music is a biography, a history, and an entertainment that really "swings."

ISBN: 9780306805448

Dimensions: 202mm x 130mm x 13mm

Weight: 224g

208 pages