Louis Armstrong, universally known as Satchmo, was born into extreme poverty in August, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His first contact with music was in a reformatory for abandoned children when he was admitted to the band for good behavior. Soon he learned to play the bugle, clarinet, horn, and began to familiarize himself with the trumpet from the informal lessons he received from jazz musician King Oliver. He never had a real music lesson and, until seventeen years old, lacked the money to buy his own musical instrument. Even though Armstrong did not learn to read music until he was over twenty, he was a musical genius and his talents were groundbreaking.
Thanks to the support of his teacher Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong played in some of his bands in New Orleans, and when Joe Oliver left town in 1919, Armstrong took the place of his mentor in the band
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In 1925 Armstrong returned to Chicago and started his own band, quintet The Hot Five, which later became septet The Hot Seven. His first recording as a bandleader was held on November 12, 1925, marking the beginning of a prolific record production. Some of the pieces that became hits are "Potato Head Blues", "Muggles" and "West End Blues".
Armstrong moved to New York again in 1929, then moved to Los Angeles in 1930 and soon after he starred in a European tour. He moved permanently to New York in 1943.
In 1946, Armstrong made an appearance in the film "New Orleans," in which he performed works from the repertoire of classical jazz.
In 1947, Armstrong cut his band to six instruments (trombone, clarinet, bass, piano and drums), thus returning to the Dixieland style that made him famous early in his career. This group was called All Stars. During this new stage with the band, he made countless recordings and appeared in film productions on several
Joe King Oliver was born in New Orleans, 1885. He spent his youth as a trombonist playing in brass bands. During this time, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, and Louis Armstrong, were all born in New Orleans. All of them learned and played different instruments and had inspiration from the bands that had started playing this new genre of music. Joe King Oliver invited Armstrong to join his band in Chicago along with Sidney.
In Missouri he joined up with the Fate Marable’s band. After three years, Louis’s dreams came true. Joe Oliver asked him to travel to Chicago to join his Creole Jazz Band. It took little time for the city of Chicago to fall in love with Louis’s New Orleanian style of jazz. Louis was becoming a star.
Armstrong formed his own band, the Hot Five, and later the Hot Seven. During the period from 1925 to 1928, he would release over 60 records, which are today regarded as some of the most influential records in Jazz history. Furthermore, these recordings helped transform Jazz from ensembles to soloist music. Armstrong also popularized Scat singing in 1926, a type of improvisation that uses the voice as an instrument through wordless
She spread his name around for him to British rockstars and before you know it Chas Chandler liked Jimi’s potential and convinced him to fly out to London with him. In London Chas Chandler quit the band The Animals and focused on managing JImi’s music career. This is where they formed the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Rock n’ Roll was changed so much by Jimi’s out of the box guitar skills and really impressive song writing. The opening single for Jimi, “Hey Joe”, was a quick classic hit followed up by another great hit, “Purple Haze” and the album Are You Experienced.
Louis, Missouri. He is easily recognizable and credited as an African American comedian, but he was a very important civil rights activist. He was born broke, but not poor and as his mother told him and his siblings, “You're not poor. You're just busted, you're just broke … [t]o be poor is a mental condition and to be broke is a temporary situation." (Explorations in Black Leadership).
The 1920’s was a time of new music and new artists. It was during this era that many new artists entered the musical world, and many of them were jazz musicians who brought attention to the genre. Louis Armstrong was one of these impactful musicians. Louis, born in 1901, was raised in a southern family where he was exposed to music at an early age (Brown 14). Friends of his formed a quartet at a young age, and his relationship with the musical world was born.
Armstrong was mentored and inspired by King Oliver. Armstrong was born in 1901 and had a rocky childhood. In fifth grade Armstrong was forced to drop out of school and begin working. This was because his stepfather was arrested and sent to jail when he was only ten years old. This also caused him to be sent to a home for boys because he no longer had anyone to take care of him.
For this discussion I choose a musician Louise Armstrong song from Pandora. When I type Louis Armstrong song, there were hundreds of his records. I choose a “Stardust” track from the album called “Don 't Get Around Much Anymore “. This song is composed by the popular song composer by Hoagy Carmichael in 1927. This song has many versions that recorded by other jazz great musician added to Armstrong.
Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1901, even though he sometimes said later in his life that he was born on July 4, 1900. He was raised by his mother and grandmother after his father, who was a factory worker, left the family while Armstrong was still a child. His family was very poor, and as a child Armstrong worked many odd jobs to help support the family. Armstrong was surrounded by music while working and playing in the streets of New Orleans. Since he could not afford an instrument, he learned to sing and joined a vocal quartet that sang on street corners for a little extra money.
"Satchmo," "Pops," and "Ambassador Satch" were names for an outstanding jazz artist that inspired many. He was one of the most important musicians in jazz. He helped to transform the traditional New Orleans style into a completely different form of jazz. Louis Daniel Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana in a very poor neighborhood. His father, a laborer, abandoned the family when he was young, and his mother was an irresponsible single parent.
Furthermore, Rich expanded his artistic aptitude when he composed musical arrangements for his band consisting of a mixture of tunes from West Side Story in the latter part of his career. Through this, Rich gained prominent attention and further acknowledgement of his musical abilities at the domestic and international
Many enjoyed his take on jazz and “his technique was superior to that of all competitors” (Medfordarts 5), this allowed to stand out from the rest during the 20s. Armstrong’s contributions to the music industry not only helped elevate jazz but also helped to break down racial barriers and promote equality. Louis “toured America and Europe as a trumpet soloist”
1. Louis Armstrong (04/8/1901 - 06/7/1971) Famous for playing trumpet, but Louis Armstrong is also a talented jazz singer. His hoarse, deep voice made the audience excited. He also improvises jazz jokes.
Jazz is most often thought to have been started in the 1920s as this explosive movement, but that is in fact not the case. Starting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century many African American musicians have started to explore their taste in improvising, and where better to do that than New Orleans (Anderson). Before the 1920s these jazz musicians have already been going around sharing the unique sound, but up until then, jazz had remained majorly in New Orleans. Interestingly during this period, a common jazz band would consist of a cornet, a clarinet, a trombone, and a rhythm section when at this period of time the clarinet is not commonly associated with being a jazz instrument, it moved into being the saxophone rather. A big
Satchel Paige Leroy Robert “Satchel” Page was born on July 7, 1906 in Mobile, Alabama to John and Lula Page. He was born in what he calls a “shotgun shack’, meaning if someone were to shoot through the front door it would go straight through the house and out the back door.” Leroy was the seventh out of the eleven children his parents had. Their last name was originally spelled “Page”, but his mother decided that adding the letter “I” to the family name would hold it to high standards. Lula Paige sent Satchel to work at an early age.