Armstrong's dominant gift was a sense of "swing," a stylistic quality that defies rigorous definition but is obvious to sympathetic ears and feet. This attractive quality of his playing transformed jazz from a genre dominated by ensembles to one that featured lengthy solos. Tying it all together was an infectious charisma that propelled him to popular stardom in a new era of sound film and electronic communication.
Born in , his life paralleled many of the twists and turns of the middle century. Just You, Just Me My Monday Date You Can Depend On Me Disc 1 [] Some Day Back O' Town Blues How High The Moon Just You. Just Me Bugle Blues That's A Plenty Big Daddy Blues Indiana The Gypsy Tin Roof Blues Rose Room Perfidio Blues For Bass When You're Smiling Tain't What You Do Lover, Come Back To Me Don't Fence Me In Basin Street Blues C'est Si Bon The Whiffenpoof Song Rockin' Chair Twelfth Street Rag Louis Blues The Man I Love Back O'Town Blues Old Man Mose Disc 4 [] Jeepers Creepers Margie Big Mama's Back In Town Big Butter And Egg Man Stompin' At The Savoy Struttin' With Some Barbecue Up A Lazy River Scince I Fell For You Mop Mop Cold, Cold Heart Because Of You La Vie En Rose Maybe It's Because I'll Walk Alone Kiss Of Fire Congratulations To Someone Your Cheatin' Heart Someday You'll Be Sorry It Takes Two To Tango I Laughed At Love April In Portugal Ramona Rec.
Blueberry Hill It's All In The Game Chloe Song Of The Swamp Indian Love Call Listen To The Mocking Bird That Lucky Old Sun Trees You're Just In Love If Yellow Dog Blues Loveless Love Aunt Hagar's Blues Long Gone from The Bowlin' Green The Memphis Blues or Mister Crump Beale Street Blues Ole Miss Blues Hesitating Blues George Avakian's Interview with W.
Handy Loveless Love rehersal sequence Hesitating Blues rehersal sequence Alligator Story Blue Turning Grey Over You I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby Squeeze Me Keepin' Out of Mischief Now Ain't Misbehavin' Bonus tracks: Squeeze Me Bonus Ain't Misbehavin' Bonus Sweet Savannah Sue Bonus The Faithful Hussar All Of Me Undecided Dardanella West End Blues Tiger Rag Clarinet Marmalade Black And Blue The Faithful Hussar Disc 2 [] Perdido Mack The Knife That's My Desire Panama New Orleans Function When Did You Leave Heaven?
You're A Heavenly Thing Mood Indigo The Beautiful American Black And Tan Fantasy Drop Me Off At Harlem The Mooche In a Mellow Tone Solitude Don't Get Around Much Anymore Just Squeeze Me He earned some money as a paperboy and by selling discarded food at the restaurants. However, scanty income and hunger forced his mother into prostitution. Armstrong also sang in dance halls where he saw every kind of dance, from licentious dancing to quadrille.
For earning additional money, he also hauled coal to places like Storyville, a red-light area where he listened to bands playing in dance halls and brothels.
After dropping out of school at an age of eleven in , he joined a quartet of boys, who sang songs in the streets for money. He also worked for a Lithuanian-Jewish immigrant family, the Karnofskys, who owned a junk business and gave him a job. They treated him as a family member, and fed and nurtured him. In the memoir, he wrote how astonished he was to see the discrimination that was meted out to Karnofskys by the white people, who opined that they were better than the Jewish race
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