Even with her personal problems she was still a major star in the jazz world she even appearing in the 1947 movie New Orleans with jazz icon Louis Armstrong. In that same year she suffered from major set back in her career due to her drug and alcohol addictions she was also arrested for possession of drugs.
On New Years Eve, 1912, Louis Armstrong was celebrating the New Year with his family. At midnight he fired off a round of gunshot, and was immediately arrested for firing a gun. He was sent to Colored Waif's Home for Boys. It was here that he was encouraged to refine his cornet skills and take
Around the year 1651, the Mississippi river flowed down into the Gulf of Mexico and a bright star overhead came crashing down into the large, deep blue river and created a strange reaction. They created the first god of New Orleans and his name was Louis Armstrong. He was the god of music and the river. His instrument was the trumpet and he would play it often as he had no one else to converse with. He would sit next to the river all the time and waited for another star to collide with it.
Louis Armstrong: The King of JAzz Known as the King of Jazz, Louis “Stachmo” Armstrong was one of the most important figures in early jazz. He was said to have defined jazz music. Only Charlie Parker comes close to having as much influence on jazz as Louis Armstrong.
Many people knew Louis Armstrong as the “first real genius of jazz”(Shipton 26). He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 4, 1901. Louis was the illegitimate son of William Armstrong and Mary Est “Mayann” Albert. He was abandoned by his father, a boiler stoker, shortly after his birth and was raised by his paternal grandmother. Then, at the age of five, he was returned to the care of his mother, who at the time worked as a laundress. Together with his mom, they moved to a better area of New Orleans. This is where Armstrong first fell in love with music; he would listen to people playing any chance that he would get(Tirro). He would attend parades, funerals, churches and go to cheap cabarets to be able to hear some of the greats play
Miles Dewey Davis III, the son of a music teacher and a dental surgeon was born on May 26, 1926, in Alton Illinois. At the age of thirteen Davis’ father introduced him to the trumpet and from then on he developed a love for playing the trumpet. Davis’ father paid for him to study under Elwood Buchanan, who owned and directed a private music school. Davis played professionally all throughout high school where he was often bullied and beat on for playing. He also got beat up for being a lame band geek in high school. At the age of seventeen he was invited to be in a band with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Soon after Davis left Illinois for New York, where he enrolled at The Institute of Musical Art (Now known as Julliard) Davis soon dropped
Watching Louis Armstrong’s live performance in Berlin during the year 1965 was a pleasure, especially because I am a great fan of his music. Throughout the concert in Berlin, Armstrong and his chamber orchestra played 13 different pieces. With the exception of Jewel Woods’ entrance on vocals for two songs, the makeup of the chamber orchestra did not change throughout the concert. As a result, the cello, clarinet, drums, piano, trombone, and trumpet remained vital parts of each song throughout the concert.
Louis Armstrong was born on August 4th 1901 in New Orleans. He lived in a bad area called “The Battlefield.” His family was very poor and he dropped out of school in the 5th grade to start working. He sung as a street musician, sold coal, collected junk, and more. He worked for a Jewish family, the Karnofskys, and they became friends. The Karonfskys often invited him over for meals and encouraged his singing. In 1912, on New Years Eve, he fired his stepfather’s gun at the sky and was immediately arrested. Armstrong was sent to Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. There he received his first official cornet lessons. He started to play with small bands in local clubs, at funerals, at parades, and more. He earned a reputation as an excellent musician
She was the starving musician, the jazz singer who did all she could to stay alive and still do what she loves. The dedication she displayed to jazz is not easy to explain. She was a perfectionist in her fashion, depending upon her excellent ear, unique voice and honesty and love for people to keep her love alive.
Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in a poor area of New Orleans, Louisiana nicknamed “The Battlefield”. His father supported the family by working in a factory but he left soon after Armstrong was born. His mother then supported them by prostitution and leaving him with his grandmother. Armstrong left school in the fifth grade to work for a Jewish family by collecting junk and delivering coal. After firing a gun in the air as part of a New Year’s celebration in 1912, Armstrong was arrested. He was sent to the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. It was there he first learned how to play the cornet and discovered his love for music. In 1914 the home let him go and he began to work odd jobs such as selling newspapers and hauling coal while continuing to play music. People began to recognize him as a great blues player and one of the best cornet players in town, Joe “King” Oliver began to mentor and teach Armstrong more about music. In 1918 he replaced a musician in Kid Ory’s band, which was the most popular band in New Orleans at the time. Because of this he was finally able to quit his odd jobs and focus all his attention to music. In 1919 Armstrong played on riverboats during the summer months with a band led by Fate Marable. He also encountered Bix Beiderbecke and Jack Teagarden while playing there and he had the opportunity to improve his music reading skills.
It has been a pleasure assisting you. I am a huge fan of Louis Armstrong myself. I will make sure to listen to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego song during my lunch break.
certain acoustical deadness in my hole, and when I have music I want to feel
Louis Armstrong once said “If you ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” Armstrong was conveying the message that jazz is whatever the performer makes of it, for there are no rules or restrictions on what the performer can do. Louis Armstrong was a famous jazz trumpeter from New Orleans who influenced the era of jazz tremendously throughout the years with his unique style, which included bringing in improvisation to pieces. The quote stated earlier can be applied to life, showing that in order to influence others or make a change, they have to experience it and make the experience their own. For instance, if somebody wants to be a teacher, it would be better for them to experience teaching first hand rather than just learning the effective teaching methods. “Satchmo”, one of Armstrong’s nicknames, had a loose idea of what jazz was, he made it his own and everybody loved the approach that he took. Louis Armstrong was an important figure in 1920’s American History as he tremendously influenced the jazz era by forming it into what it is today.
The music called Jazz was born sometime around 1895 in New Orleans. It combined elements of Ragtime, marching band music and Blues. What made Jazz such a different perspective of traditional music was its act of improvising. There was a widespread use of improvisation often by more than one player at a time. Songwriters would write the music down on a piece of paper, and then the Jazz musicians would try their best to play the music. Usually in a Jazz piece, musicians would use the song as a starting point to improvise around. Jazz musicians would play a familiar song to the audience, and by the time they were done with the piece they would stir up a totally different feeling away from the
Still enduring the lasting effects of World War 1, our country has adapted and metamorphosed into a distinct, refined hybrid. Thus far strictly Defined under the the principles listed in the constitution, America has become profoundly liable to artistic, romanticized movements that consequently resulted in contemporary literature and, for the sake of our topic, the Birth of Jazz. Goodman, in addition, is a huge contributor to the birth of jazz. Jazz, for the most part, has its roots in the colored communities of New Orleans; however, after the initial birth of jazz in New Orleans, many communities fond of the genre put a twist of their own by altering it into a distinct, new culture of jazz. Being that Goodman was born in the Midwest, he fell
Everyone knows Louis Armstrong the trumpeter and singer, the key figure in jazz history, But most have forgotten Armstrong the writer. Armstrong's autobiography, Satchmo, is one of the great American memoirs, a classic portrait of early 20th century African-American life in New Orleans. But this was a small part of his output. Despite an education that ended in 5th grade, he loved to write, and from the 1920s onward, in what he described as "My (54) years traveling on the road playing one night stands," he never went anywhere without his typewriter, dictionary and thesaurus. He used this to write thousands of letters to musicians, fans and friends, and to publish at least 35 magazine articles over the course of his career. Now Duke University