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Trumpeter and singer · 1901–1971 · Music
Grew up poor in New Orleans, learned cornet in a boys’ home, and turned jazz from ensemble music into an art of the soloist.
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“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.”
attributed to Louis Armstrong
Armstrong was raised in the poorest part of New Orleans and learned cornet at the Colored Waif's Home after being sent there for firing a pistol on New Year's Eve. King Oliver mentored him and called him to Chicago in 1922. The Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of 1925 to 1928 — West End Blues above all — put the improvising soloist at the centre of jazz and set the rhythmic language players still use. His singing was as influential as his playing, and the scat vocal on Heebie Jeebies became legend. He toured relentlessly for decades, faced criticism from younger Black musicians for his stage manner, and spoke out sharply against the Little Rock crisis in 1957.
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You can put that to the Louis Armstrong persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Louis Armstrong’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1901–1971, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Louis Armstrong persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Louis Armstrong’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1901–1971, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Louis Armstrong persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Louis Armstrong’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1901–1971, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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