... . Undoubtedly one of the most accomplished musicians of all time and the forefront leader of the jazz world. Duke didn't always have music on his mind though. Duke, Born Edward Kennedy Ellington was born April 29th ,1899 the son of James William Ellington and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. They lived In Washington, moving out of the deep south just prior to Dukes birth ... agent of his own band which enabled him to place the band in the best locations without the heavy fees. On March 11th, 1919 his son Mercer Kennedy Ellington was born. In 1923 Duke and his wife finally left Washington and wen...

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... Baltimore in 1915. Her father left the home before she was born. When she was ten years old she was raped and sent to a foster home where she lived for three years. At the age of 13 she moved back home and ... the 1950's Billie Holliday had developed a serious heroin addiction. She also drank and smoked. During her last years she was in terrible health. She died in 1959. Ella Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia in 1917. Both her parents died by the time she was 15. Ella was forced to live at the New York State Training School for girls ... ...

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... played which was called jazz music. Still today he is known for his music and being one of the pioneer's of jazz and big band. In The Beginning Louis was born in the Storyville District of New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 4, 1901. He always celebrated his birthday on July 4, 1900 because his family told him that. It wasn't until he died ... on July 6, 1971 that people found out his real birth date. His father Willie, a laborer left the family soon after Louis was born. His mother Mayane, was a domestic servant and a part time prostitute. She left Louis and his sister Beatrice, also cal...

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Louis Armstrong was born in 1901 in one of the poorest sections of New Orleans, known as "The Battlefield", because of the frequent gang fights. His famous nickname was "Satchmo" short for "satchel mouth", ... it on the 4th of July because that's what his grandmother had told him. Louis's childhood wasn't the best growing up. His father left his mother shortly after he was born and he was sent to live with his grandmother for 5 years. Eventually, he was sent back to his mother and sister, Bernice. When he turned seven he began working and ... ...

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... what he was always told and believed. His real date of birth was not known until after his death July 6, 1971. His father left the family soon after he was born, his mother left Louis and his sister Beatrice, in the care of his grandmother most of the time. However he always believed the love of his family helped him make ... ...

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One of the greatest Jazz singers of all time, Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Harris on April 7, 1915. Her mother Sadie was an eighteen-year old cleaner and her father Clarence Holiday was a sixteen-year old guitarist. Her parents were not married nor ... ...

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... backbone for most of the music that is heard today, many names were going to be recognized for their contributions to music history. One of them being Thomas Fats' Waller. Born May 21st, 1904, in New York, Fats was the son of Edward Martin Waller a minister Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. He played the organ and sang in the choir. But ... ...

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... of human life and mans contemporary reassessment of his traditional values. Tracing the origins of Jazz in the formative years is not an easy task. The music called jazz was born sometime around 1895 in New Orleans. It combined elements of Ragtime, marching band music, and Blues. What differentiated Jazz from these earlier styles was the widespread use of improvisation, often ... ...

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... , including "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless The Child." Influenced by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong, Holiday not only sang with passion and conviction, but she also improvised with a trumpeter's sensibility. Born Eleanore Harris on April 7, 1915. Her father Clarence Holiday and mother Sadie Fagan were teenagers who resized in Baltimore, Maryland at the time. Her father was a professional guitarist and Banjo ... ...

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For my report, I am doing Louis Armstrong. He was born August 4th, 19o1, and was raised by a poor New Orleans family. Louis was a poor orphan, and at the age of 12, he was sent to a reform school for firing a gun ... ...

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For my report, I am doing Louis Armstrong. He was born August 4th, 19o1, and was raised by a poor New Orleans family. Louis was a poor orphan, and at the age of 12, he was sent to a reform school for firing a gun ... ...

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Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) Louis Armstrong was born in one of the poorest neighborhoods in New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 4, 1901. Marc Miller, who is a Historian, says that Louis Armstrong was "a hard-working kid who helped support his ... ...

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... -plated. The trumpet uses the treble clef ( g' clef) * These are the names of two trumpet players in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. William Evans Julie Payne Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was born in the poorer section on New Orleans in 1901. Over his years he had lots of nicknames because he was always talking and never shut up. He got such names ... ...

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... of Fitzgerald's life she had created an everlasting record of art, Fitzgerald's jazz styles and scat singing ("improvised nonsense syllables usually sung to instrumental accompaniment"), (Ella Fitzgerald, Encarta). She was born in Newport News, Virginia, Fitzgerald later moved wit her mother and stepfather to Yonkers, a suburb of New York City. Fitzgerald first dream was to become a dance. But she was later ... ...

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... incorrectly and ruined his lips. He never learned to read music either. When Louis was around 17 or 18 (his age is unknown because Louis never knew when he was born) he began to play jazz but he was very shy. Louis was afraid to come up to the front of the band and solo. King Oliver, a jazz musician, asked Louis ... ...

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