Swing That Music

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...