“Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine—I look right in the heart of good old New Orleans... It has given me something to live for.” Louis Armstrong also known as "Satchmo" was born on August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was an African American who was abandoned by his father when he was only an infant. He lived most of his live in a neighborhood known as “Back of the Town” nick name “the Battlefield”. Louis had a very poor family growing up. His grandmother Josephine Armstrong had to take care of him and his younger sister because his mom, Mary had to work hard in order to provide for the kids. When Louis turned five, he moved back to his mother.
When He was old enough to attend school, he attended the Fisk School which was only for Boys. The school likely offered music classes. Louis in his free times tried to help his mom by finding discarded food and selling it to restaurants. Louis had to drop out of school in 5th grade because he had to work to support his mom. He was in a group where group of friends would sing in streets for money.
On New Year's Eve in 1912, at only age 11 Louis fired his stepfather's gun in the air and so was arrested. He was then sent to the Colored Waif's Home for Boys. In there, Professor Peter Davis gave Louis musical training. Eventually, Davis made Louis the band leader. He played the cornet and started getting interest in music more than ever. Louis at thirteen-year-old became amazing at playing cornet, and thought about making music his career.
In 1914, at age fourteen Louis was released from the Colored Waif’s Home. Louis then worked for a Jewish immigrant family (the Kaenifskys). They treated him as a family and also supported him with his music playing skills. Louis...
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...pt up his busy tour schedule until a few years before died. The great trumpet player Louis Armstrong died in Queens, New York July 6, 1971. Louis had won a massive amount of awards for his trumpet skills. Louis was described as a quick and inventive musical minded person. Louis was also built a house museum in his memory.
Louis Armstrong over all was a great trumpet player in jazz. Besides trumpet Louis was an amazing vocalist. He also wrote two autobiographies, ten magazines articles, hundreds of pages of memories, and thousands of letters. He had composed lots of songs. He also performed an average of 300 concerts each year; he earned the nick name “Ambassador Satch” and was one of the best famous people of the 20th century. The public loved Louis Armstrong to the point where every single person in the united sates knew him and everyone was devastated when he died.
The band’s return to Chicago was a definite success: they drew bigger crowds than ever before and received excellent reviews. This success motivated King Oliver to invite his young mentee from New Orleans, Louis Armstrong, to join the band.
Louis has being the most prominent trumpet player in history. His trumpet playing techniques significantly impacted all other instrument players who came after him and emulated his techniques in all other instruments. His style and innovative perspective of jazz changed all the forthcoming jazz singers who had a lot to learn from him, including Bix who learnt a lot from Louis Armstrong. Two of his most famous hit sounds were “What a Wonderful World” as well as “Hello Dolly” among others. The emotions attached to his music is what attracted most people and led to the spread of his music. The charm present in the music was also adored and enjoyed by
Scott Joplin, commonly known as the "King of Ragtime" music, was born on November 24, 1868, in Bowie County, Texas near Linden. Joplin came from a large musical family. His father, Giles Joplin was a musician who had fiddled dance music while serving as a slave at his master's parties. His mother, Florence Givens Joplin, born free and out of slavery, sang and played the banjo, and four of his brothers and sisters either sang or played strings.
Jazz as a general genre reached its peak in the thirties. Jazz was incredibly popular with both the Black community, and the white community; however, Jazz reached the adolescents the most. Jazz music was associated with the African American culture during this time of increible racial tension, subsequently the ‘teens’ of this generation began to tune into this genre for its rebelistic qualities. Popular forms of jazz music often included, Dixieland/’hot’ jazz, classical jazz, and bebop. The defining artist of hot jazz was Louis Armstrong. This music was characterized by collective improvised solos, around melodic structure, that ideally built up to an emotional and "Hot" climax. The rhythm section, which typically consists of percussion, bass, banjo, or guitar helps to support this crescendo, many times in the style of a
room and play then, he took piano lessons when he was seven. By the age of
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, more commonly known as Jelly Roll Morton, was born to a creole family in a poor neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. Morton lived with several family members in different areas of New Orleans, exposing him to different musical worlds including European and classical music, dance music, and the blues (Gushee, 394). Morton tried to play several different instruments including the guitar; however, unsatisfied with the teachers’ lack of training, he decided to teach himself how to play instruments without formal training (Lomax, 8). ...
the slums were either the hustlers or the musicians. Considering Louis was not related to
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Louis Prima was born to Italian immigrant parents Angelina and Anthony Prima on December 7, 1910 in the town that he would eventually draw his biggest influences from, New Orleans, Louisiana. Louis' first instrument was a saxophone that he received on his 10th birthday from the leader of the Dixieland band that his older brother Leon was in. He never quite took to the saxophone, and eventually gave it up and studied instead the violin. Near the end of his high school career however, he switched to the instrument that he is most associated with, and for which he acquired his nickname "the lip," the trumpet. And although he had no formal training on the trumpet, as Sam Butera is quoted as saying, "Louis discovering the trumpet was like a fish discovering water."
Communication comes in many forms: written words, spoken words, sign language, pictures, gestures, etc. Each of these forms of communications can be an effective way to express oneself. The ways to communicate are as numerous and diverse as the people who use them to convey their thoughts and ideas. One of the most universal forms of expression is music. Music can be a combination of several forms of communication or just simple sounds that move the soul.
Art Blakey was born to a poor family in the heart of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1919. He was working in the steel and coal mills when he was only fourteen. There were no child labor laws in those times. He had to work to help support his family and put food on the table. Blakey turned to music as a way of escaping the exhausting day-to-day labor of the mills. Blakey taught himself how to play the piano. Even though he couldn't read music, and could only play songs in three keys, Blakey was a crowd favorite a several local venues. He used to make fifteen-twenty dollars a night in tips every night he went. At fifteen Blakey was leading his own band. They were small and unknown, but played at clubs all around the city.
It was said that he thought he was born on July 4, 1900 (Armstrong 7). While Louis was still an infant his father, William Armstrong, abandoned his family. He spent the first years of his life living with his Grandmother since at the time his parents were going through a separation. At age 5, he moved into a home with his mother and sister, Beatrice, whom he called Mama Lucy. He grew up in a rough section of New Orleans. They were incredibly poor and did not have enough money. He would work different jobs just to take care of his family. Louis would work anywhere that he would be able to find work. He would sing on the street, which would result in his nickname, Satchelmouth that would be shorten to Satchmo. His nickname was a result of him having a wide
...d with in his lifetime, from Dizzy Gillespie to Art Blakey to John Coltrane. He played with everybody who was anybody! Another thing I found to be interesting was the way he died. He was shot by his common-law wife in the middle of a performance. This means that she was not officially, under any law binding terms, his wife, but for all intensive purposes, they were married. Then, one day she went crazy and shot his straight on stage shortly after an altercation had just occurred. She then ran to him and screamed that she didn’t mean to do it, and later was admitted to an insane asylum. That’s not the best way to die!
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Louis Armstrong was known as the King of jazz, a trumpeter and singer who was one of the most influential figures in jazz music. Famous for his innovative methods of playing the trumpet and cornet, he was also a highly talented singer blessed with a powerful voice. Known for his skills on being able improvise, he would bend and twist the many lyrics and melody of a song with dramatic effect. As his popularity grew in the mid-20th century America when racism was more prevalent, he was one of the first African-American entertainers to be highly popular among both the white and the colored segments of the society. Fondly nicknamed Satchmo or Pops by his fans, he is often regarded to be the founding father of jazz as a uniquely American art form. Born into poverty in New Orleans, he had a very difficult childhood after his father abandoned the family. As a young boy, he