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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Swing That Music

Swing That Music

Armstrong, Louis
Vallee, Rudy
Morgenstern, Dan

Paperback

Biographies GeneralMusiciansJazz

ISBN10: 0306805448
ISBN13: 9780306805448
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: Sep 1 1993
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.70 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Not only biography, but also one of the earliest American attempts to trace the development of jazz.--from the foreword by Dan Morgenstern

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). 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.

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