ABSTRACT

Black Bottom Stomp tells the compelling stories of the lives and times of nine seminal figures in American music history, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton.

chapter |10 pages

Tom Turpin and the Birth of Ragtime

chapter 1|22 pages

Scott Joplin

chapter 2|18 pages

Eubie Blake

chapter 3|16 pages

Luckey Roberts

chapter 4|16 pages

James P. Johnson

chapter 5|18 pages

Willie The Lion Smith

chapter 6|20 pages

Fats Waller

chapter 7|60 pages

Jelly Roll Morton

chapter 8|59 pages

Louis Armstrong