Louis Armstrong, master of modernism

Preface

Introduction

"Welcome to Chicago"

Oliver's band and the "blues age"

Opposites attract : Louis and Miss Lil

The call from Broadway

"This is what really relates to us" : the Dreamland Cafe, the Vendome Theater, and the first Hot Five records

Melody man at the Sunset Cafe

"Some kind of a god"

The white turn

The Rosetta stone

Sleepy time down south

Discography

Bibliography

Endnotes

Source notes

Index.