Louis Armstrong

... . He played back in the old neighborhood dance halls and saloons that were run by gangsters. Then in 1917 prostitution in Storyville was outlawed, and Storyville became a ghost town. "For Louis Armstrong, the closing of Storyville meant more than a bawdy diversion it was the end of a way of life on which he had relied since he was a child." (Bergreen p. 110) Once playing ... called the Hot Fives and Sevens, which gave him a lasting name. These recordings were some of the most famous made by Armstrong, including "Mandy Make up Your Mind" and "Money Blues" (Bergreen 96). . "The Five dozen ...

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... by James Lincoln Collier; and Boy from New Orleans: Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong by Hans Westerburg. Collier suggests that the music Louis left is more important than books. I do agree with Collier and have been listening to Louis Armstrong recently. Collier thinks that Louis" best recordings are: Satchmo: A Musical Biography of Louis Armstrong; Satch Plays Fats; Louis Armstrong's Greatest Hits; Ella and Louis; and Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy. I agree that Satch Plays Fats is ... a great recording. I have answered the question "Did Louis Armstrong really invent jazz?" Jazz was not inv...

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... 's dates with his Hot Five band featuring Johnny Dodds on clarinet, Kid Ory on trombone, Johnny St. Cyr on banjo, and his wife Lillian on piano. On November 12, 1925 Louis Armstrong made his first records that had his name as bandleader. The songs on the first Okeh 78 rpm record were "My Heart", and "Yes, I'm in the Barrel". Songs such as ... for by the people who don't know much about his musical career. Audiences today know this song because of its use in Good Morning, Vietnam. Louis's movie career also included his star role in Hello, Dolly. Louis Armstrong lived a healthy and fulfill...

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... and airwaves switch from year to year. Due to this, musicians of an older era often dislike or disapprove of more modern, popular music. This would not be true for Louis Armstrong and modern Hip-Hop, he would have liked the freedom provided to artists to be themselves in public, in their music, and understood their differing styles from his preferred style ... . Although Louis Armstrong presented a very clean cut, and oftentimes silent, public image, in private he was much more animated and regularly interlaced coarse language into regular conversation where he swore frequently (Palmer)....

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... few musicians in New Orleans. During this time Joe Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, and Sidney Bechet were creating a different type of music out of blues and ragtime. By the 1920's Louis Armstrong was recognized when he left New Orleans to go to Chicago to play in Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. After his success with the band, he moved to New York where ... he had a great impact on the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra with new musical vocabulary and improvisation. From these facts along, one can see that Armstrong was very successful during his life time. In 1926 Louis Armstrong returned to Chicago....

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... What a Wonderful World, which he recorded in 1968 topping the charts. He later died in July 1970, a wealthy and much loved man. Important to Our Country Louis Armstrong was a phenomenal person for American History because he brought so much joy to people in the music business and not in the music business. Anyone that can touch somebody ... give a kid hope to be a great trumpet player like him, it can give someone something to relax to, and it can even help someone read a book. Louis Armstrong has done so much for this country and even though he is dead he can still help people out by b...

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... but above all, the discovery of a charismatic and innovative character that marked a before and after in the history of music called ''the famous trumpeter Louis Armstrong." Furthermore, this American man, as the years passed, marked a large global recognition because he transformed jazz that from its beginnings was a kind of ... acting technique, produced a reputation for serving as a model for artists such as Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and even, harmonically, Louis Armstrong always supported his classic way of playing the instruments as he used to play in his homet...

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... singer had. In 1931, he moved back to New Orleans, to form his own band. Louis hired Joe Glaser as his manager, and Joe took care of everything, leaving Louis to focus on his music. They hired the musicians from Joe King Oliver's Group, and renamed the band "Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra". He married his second wife, Alpha Smith, and after 1 year, divorced ... her and married Lucille Wilson, who he stayed with for the rest of his life. Joe Glaser fired their band and replaced it with a less popular and smaller one. In the 196o's, Louis became known as America's Ambassador, because h...

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... singer had. In 1931, he moved back to New Orleans, to form his own band. Louis hired Joe Glaser as his manager, and Joe took care of everything, leaving Louis to focus on his music. They hired the musicians from Joe King Oliver's Group, and renamed the band "Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra". He married his second wife, Alpha Smith, and after 1 year, divorced ... her and married Lucille Wilson, who he stayed with for the rest of his life. Joe Glaser fired their band and replaced it with a less popular and smaller one. In the 196o's, Louis became known as America's Ambassador, because h...

• Word Count: 311
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• Grade Level: High School