Literature and Arts B-82: Sayin' Something: Jazz as Sound, Sensibility, and Social Dialogue

11. Louis Armstrong

Armstrong, Louis. Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words: Slected Writings. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 A3 1999  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 1319.15.5.3

---. Louis Armstrong--A Self-Portrait. The Interview by Richard Meryman. New York: Eakins Press, 1971.
Location: Lamont Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 A7  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 1319.15.5 

---. Satchmo; My Life in New Orleans. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1954.
Location: Lamont Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 A3  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 1319.15

---. Swing That Music. New York: Da Capo Press, 1993.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 1319.15.5.2 

Bergreen, Laurence. Louis Armstrong : An Extravagant Life. New York: Broadway Books, 1997.
Location: Lamont Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 B47 1997  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 1319.15.7 

Berrett, Joshua. The Louis Armstrong Companion : Eight Decades of Commentary. New York: Schirmer Books, 1999.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 1319.15.51.3

Bradbury, David. Armstrong. London: Haus, 2003.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 B73 2003  

Brooks, Edward. The Young Louis Armstrong on Records : A Critical Survey of the Early Recordings, 1923-1928. Newark, N.J.: Institute of Jazz Studies Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 2002.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 B77 2002

Brothers, Thomas David. Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.
Location: Lamont Library, Loeb Music Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 B78 2006  

Cogswell, Michael. "Armstrong, Louis." In The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., edited by Barry Kernfeld. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/J015400 (accessed September 9, 2008).

---. Louis Armstrong : The Offstage Story of Satchmo. Portland, Or.: Collectors Press, 2003.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 C63 2003  

Collier, James Lincoln. Louis Armstrong, An American Genius. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Location: Lamont Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 C64 1983  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 1319.15.14  

Harker, Brian Cameron. "The Early Musical Development of Louis Armstrong, 1901-1928." Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University, 1997.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Isham Lib. 3159.582.88.1

Jones, Max, and John Chilton. Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story, 1900-1971. London: Studio Vista, 1971.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 J625  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 J625 1971b 

McCarthy, Albert J. Louis Armstrong. London, Cassell, 1960.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 M2

---. Satchmo : The Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.
Location: Loeb Music Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 M45 2004

Nollen, Scott Allen. Louis Armstrong: The Life, Music, and Screen Career. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2004.
Location: Loeb Music Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.A75 N65 2004  

Storb, Ilse. Louis Armstrong: The Definitive Biography. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 1319.15.82.2

Westerberg, Hans. Boy from New Orleans : Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong : on Records, Films, Radio and Television. Copenhagen: Jazzmedia, 1981.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 1319.15.93

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