Swing that music / by Louis Armstrong ; with an introduction by Rudy Vallee and a new foreword by Dan Morgenstern ; music section edited by Horace Gerlach ; with special examples of swing music contributed by Benny Goodman ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Vallée, Rudy, 1901-1986.

Morgenstern, Dan.

Gerlach, Horace.

Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971.

Armstrong, Louis.

Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.

Jazz musicians.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 136 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Da Capo Press edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Da Capo Press, 1993.

Summary:

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. 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 of and marriage to Lil Hardin, his 1929 move to New York, the formation of his own band, his European tours, and his international success.

Notes:

Originally published: London ; New York : Longmans, Green, 1936. With new forward.

ISBN:

0306805448

OCLC:

28336557