... invitation from King Oliver to join his band in Chicago. Louis soon became a great asset to King Olivers' band. King Oliver took Louis and molded him into the next great trumpet player. Louis and Joe complimented each other when they played. Drummer George Wettling said, "He (Oliver) and Louis Armstrong had some breaks they played together that I've never heard played ... satisfied to establish or paraphrase a tunes melody, Armstrong broke away from melody, and improvised original, melody like lines that were compatible with the tunes chord progression. Armstrong command of the trumpet ...

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... achieve more of an orchestral sound. The Big Bands of this era were predominantly wind orchestras containing alto and tenor sax sections, trumpet and trombone sections, along with piano and drums. When Bop music arrived, the alto saxophone and trumpet were the preferred instruments of the major soloists who were backed up by piano, string bass and drums. With the advent of ... ...

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... though Armstrong was young during his early career, he was looked up to by many black people. To them he was a hero not only because he sang and played the trumpet better than anyone else, but more so because he had made it big and for the most part, no one cared what color his skin was. His influence can be ... he was extremely popular over here, he was even more popular in Europe because they weren't as concerned with racism. Up until the 50's he still sang and play the trumpet. On July 6th two days after his birthday he died in his sleep at home in Queens, New York. He was 71 years o...

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... and the same with modern jazz. A few examples of Progressive Swing are Stan Kenton's "Chorale for Brass, Piano and Bongos" recorded in nineteen forty-seven and "Invention for Guitar and Trumpet" in nineteen fifty-two. Although the Swing style may have launched the art status of jazz by placing it in the ears and minds of the world, it was its ... instrumental-style improvisation vocally. This requires a vocabulary of vowels and consonants related less to particular words and more to the tone and expression of jazz instrumentalists such as in the trumpet-like "Oop-Pop-a-Da" by Babs Gonza...

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... . You are the smart guy, White Man! You got everything!- It intensity makes the reader anxious just from reading it. The line about Louis Armstrong refers to the great jazz trumpet player, the first black man to be recognized as a successful jazz artist by a white audience. Only now, ten years later, we see that it is the whites that profit from ... ...

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... forms of improvisation. His contribution to pieces such as "Dipper Mouth Blues- demonstrate this innovation. Also, the piece is a good example of the jazz use of instruments such as the trumpet, clarinet, and trombone now used for solos rather than merely as supporting pieces of an ensemble or band. Plus, Armstrong's voice became an important solo instrument in his works. Using ... ...

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