Louis Armstrong Accomplishments

“My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.” by Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong was the first great influence in jazz. Now, let’s start in the beginning. Louis Armstrong was born on August 4th, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was the age 11, he was sent to the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys, where he learned how to play the cornet and realized he wants to makes music for a living. As he returned back home in 1914, he worked jobs selling newspaper and dragging coal to the city’s famed-red-light district. In 1918, as his reputation as a musician maintains to grow, Armstrong joined in Kid Ory’s band, then it became the most popular band in New Orleans. He soon quit his jobs working manual labor jobs and began focusing more on his cornet.

In the summer of 1922, Armstrong received a call from King Oliver to invite him to come over to Chicago and join his Jazz Band as the cornet. The band was very significant because it was the first famous jazz band in Chicago that highlighted the New Orlean’s trait of music. In 1926, he recorded a song called “heebie-jeebies,” and quickly became popular jazz musician in America.He achieved so many accomplishments during the 19330’s. In 1937, Armstrong became one of the first African American to host sponsored national radio broadcast, featured in many Hollywood movies and the first jazz musician to appear on the cover of TIME magazine. Armstrong performed all over the world in the 1950’s and 60’s, including throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the age of sixty-three, he the oldest artist to hit number one on the pop chart of “Hello Dolly.” The life of Louis Armstrong came to an end on July 6, 1971. He died from a heart attack in Corona Queens. Since his death, Armstrong's music has continued to grow and will be always remembered his remarkable trumpeter and