Louis Armstrong's exodus from the Oliver Creole Jazz Band is more than a chronicled event; granted farther concern, it may be glimpsed as a melodious and socio-cultural happening of the largest significance. First, Armstrong's exodus from Chicago (as well as Beiderbecke's three years subsequent, in 1927, to connect the Goldkette band and then Paul Whiteman's enterprise) was, in a sense, symbolic of the detail that the most fertile time span for swing in Chicago was completed and that the swing capital was going to New York(Jones 2010). It furthermore ...