Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Quick Facts
Name: Louis Armstrong Nickname: Satchmo Occupation: Singer, Trumpet Player Birth Date: August 4th, 1901 Death Date: July 6th, 1971 Education: Fisk School for Boys Place of Birth: New Orleans, Lousiana Place of Death: New York, New York
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Nicknames
Louie Armstrong Satchmo, or Satch are short for Satchelmouth When Armstrong was a young boy dancing for pennies in the streets of New Orleans, he would scoop up the coins off the streets and stick them into his mouth to avoid having the bigger children steal them from him. Someone dubbed him satchel mouth for his mouth acting as a satchel. Another tale said that was because he had a big mouth.
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Importance of Armstrong
Wowing audiences with the utter fearlessness and freedom of his groundbreaking trumpet solos. One of the inventors of scat singing. His scat singing transformed vocal tradition and musicians studied his recordings to hear what a horn could do. It has been said that Armstrong used his horn like a singers voice and used his voice like a musical instrument.
Louis Armstrong
Importance of Armstrong
One of the most significant artists by the late 1930s. His music has had a major effect on swing and the big band sound. The greatest of all Jazz musicians. He defined what it was to play Jazz.
If you have to ask what Jazz is, youll never know. -Louis Armstrong
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Harlem Renaissance
Proclaimed in a collection of prophetic black tracts and manifestos, and distinguished by the iconic bodies. It was a cultural and psychological watershed, an era in which black people were finally liberating themselves from a past fraught with self-doubt to an unprecedented optimism. Louis Armstrong was one of the great black artists who appeared during this cultural movement in that era.
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References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/louis_armstrong (Wikipedia) www.redhotjazz.com (Red Hot Jazz Archive) http://www.biography.com/people/louis-armstrong9188912 (famous biographies & TV shows biography.com) www.louisarmstronghouse.org (Louis Armstrong house museum) http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/armstrong/ (National Portrait Gallery)
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References
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_armstron g_louis.htm (PBS-JAZZ) http://michaelminn.net/armstrong/index.php (The Louis Armstrong Discography) Hello Dolly video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmfeKUNDDYs (Youtube) What a wonderful world video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM (Youtube)
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References-Images
http://www.spclarke.com/?page_id=137 http://theseconddisc.com/2011/07/13/hellolouis-massive-10-cd-armstrong-box-coming-fromuniversal/ http://www.frenchcreoles.com/MusicEvents/loui s%20armstrong/louis%20armstrong.htm http://mcgonnigle.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/h ot-five-bismark-and-bix/ http://www.wikipedia.org http://www.answers.com/topic/louis-armstrong
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