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Scatman: An Authorized Biography of Scatman Crothers

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If you're a Scatman Crothers super fan like myself you'll probably find this book a little lacking. Still a fine read and definitely worth checking out if you have even a passing interest in Mr. Crothers. I just wish it was a little more in depth.

Scatman is a very good book at the begining but gets really

boring towards the middle. I think whoever wrote the book

shouldn't have concentrated on so many dry facts in Scatman's

life, by telling more of a story. Everytime the writer attempts

to tell stories in the book it's interesting but evertime he

keeps refering back to small details that shouldn't have made

it in the book. The most interesting thing that I learn in the

book is how Rap (Hip Hop of Today)has been around for decades!

Back in the 1920s jazz musicians where using a style refered

to as scat jazz in which they used their voices to make sounds

of various instruments. This required a great deal of patience

and intellegience to come up with a style like this. As black

male I think this is a good book to read for this month Black

History month to let us know what types of racisms we as a people

had to face to accomplish things in the past.