Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans

by Louis Armstrong

Book Overview

"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd stroll up and down the floor and the bar. Those guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy, and there was lots of just plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306802767
• ISBN13: 9780306802768
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"