Joe “King” Oliver was one of the most famous persons during the 1900s. Oliver beginnings were in New Orleans by the 1908 and after that he worked with different groups as in Source 7 says “Worked in Kid Ory’s band in 1917,...played in Bill Johnson's Creole Orchestra… The original Creole Orchestra at the Dreamland Ballroom”(Source 7-1). He had the opportunity of playing in different places, with different people. He also was “very famous for his using mutes, derbies, bottles….. sound out of his horn with this arsenal of gizmos” (Source 7-1). With all his experience he was very famous for his style and the way he played his horn, he was one of the most admired artist during that time. “King” Oliver was a very influential person for different…
Louis Armstrong also known as "Satchmo," "Pops" and "Ambassador Satch," came to prominence in the 1920’s. He influenced many artists with his unique and daring trumpet style and vocals. In 1922 louis joined king oliver’s Creole Jazz Band on second cornet, also with oliver he eventually made his first recordings on April 5th, 1923. On that day he got his first recorded solo on “Chimes Blues.” In the year of 1924 Armstrong joined Fletcher Henderson's orchestra, and immediately made his presence felt with a series of solos. Eventually Louis left Henderson, nevertheless he went back to chicago when Okeh records let him make his first records with a band under his name. Armstrong made more than 60 records with the hot five who later became the hot…
Louis Armstrong was considered one of the most influential artists in Jazz history. He was a trumpeter, band leader, singer, soloist, film star and comedian. He had an instantly recognized voice. Armstrong demonstrated great dexterity as an improviser while bending the lyrics and…
Many musicians shaped the music of the 20th century but few had had a lasting impact. Research and discover how your musician or band affected popular music of their day, and how their contribution lives on today. After you get done reading this you have everything need to know about Ray Charles, and his career.…
Louis Zamperini was born in 1917 to loving Italian immigrants in New York. At the age of two, his family moved to California. Louie had two older sisters and an older brother and mentor, Pete. Since he spoke no English, he was an easy target for bullies. As a child, he was infamous for beating up kids, smoking and drinking at a young age, stealing, running away, and never listening to his parents.…
Charlie Parker was born on August 29th 1920 and was the only child in the family of Charles and Addie Parker. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas but shortly after his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri where Jazz was thriving during the time. Charlie did attend school where he first found his love for music by playing the baritone horn in the school’s band. He also started to play in the local youth group bands to practice and display his music to people. At the age of 13 he became enamored with the Alto saxophone and that had become “his” specific instrument that he chose to play. When Charlie was 15 years old he decided to drop out of school to pursue more in his music career. Around 1935 until 1939 Charlie worked in Kansas City with different jazz groups to work on his music and develop more as an artist in jazz. More specifically in 1937 Parker played with some of his role models he looked up to such as the tenor saxophone player Lestor Young and the alto saxophone player Buster smith. He really saw the passion and talent these two had and it inspired him to want to learn more and influenced his as well with his own music. During 1938 Charlie joined Jay McShann, a pianist, band and toured with him in Chicago and New York. After this time Charlie returned to Chicago for a…
Charles Mingus was born on April 22, 1922 on an army base in Nogales, Arizona and. However, Mingus grew up without…
Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer. He was one of the great Jazz musicians, and also one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920’s. “Singin’ the Blues” and “I’m coming, Virginia” are examples of his significant works. He demonstrated his unusual tone and also his talent in improvisation in these tunes. With his unusual tone and his original improvising style, Louis Armstrong is the only competitor among all the cornetists in the 1920’s, but due to their different styles and sound, we could not tell who is better than…
Thankfully, Louis was born in a city with one of the largest entertainment industries in America. New Orleans had thousands of tourists regularly, coming for fun and staying for music. Even though Armstrong was banned from many places because of his color, he did have the ability to listen to music. As tough as New Orleans was it had one thing in abundance: music. In Louis’s area music was everywhere. The city was filled with dance halls, bands in the “tonks”, and bands parading around in the streets. “Louis could not escape the sound of music. He heard it as he dozed off in his bed at night and he heard it coming out of the “tonks” when he woke up in the morning. He heard it in school during the day when bands marched by outside” (Collier, 9). This constant exposure and growing music sparked something in Louis leading him to his love of jazz and ragtime. Starting at age sixteen Louis would stop in at bars called “tonks” and watch the dancers and listen to the bands play. “He loved it all, and yet it was painful, too, because he yearned to be up there with the musicians, playing the blues and ragtime” (Collier, 40). In one of Armstrong’s favorite tonks, Louis eventually met his mentor Joe “King” Oliver who saw something unique in Armstrong and in 1922 invited him to join a trip to Chicago with his band. At the time Oliver’s band was the best and most influential in all of…
Louis Daniel Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born on August 4th,1901. Louis Armstrong died on July 6th, 1971 in Corona, New York City, because of a heart attack. Louis Armstrong was a music artist and played the trumpet. The Genre that Mr. Armstrong played was Jazz, Traditional Pop, and Dixieland.…
Louis Armstrong moved to Chicago in 1922 to play the second cornet in a Creole jazz band. Although two years later Armstrong moved to New York City and began playing music with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra at the Roseland Ballroom. In 1929 he made his first Broadway appearance. In his recording of “Ain’t Misbehavin” he used a pop song, however, interpreted through jazz. That will help set the stage for jazz…
4. Louis Armstrong- Trumpet (1901-1971) Because of his large mouth, he was nicknamed "satchel mouth"…
Louis Armstrong was born on August 4th, 1901 in one of the poorest sections of New Orleans, Louisiana. When Armstrong was just a young boy his mother, Mayann Armstrong,…
The birth of jazz music is often accredited to African Americans but both black and white Americans are responsible for its immerse rise in popularity. It is present in black vocals, music-spirituals, work songs, field hollers, and the blues. Jazz united people across the world and had powerful meanings about their lives. Jazz music was completed with a trumpet, clarinet, trombone and section of drums. The music was created with passion inspired by people’s lives. Ragtime was a musical style emerged from St. Louis in the late 1890s. The swing was the new style for Jazz. Benny Goodman was the “king of swing.” and he was the first white bandleader to feature black and white musicians playing together in public. There were other different styles…
Not in New York, not in Armstrong’s birthplace,nor New Orleans, nor Chicago, not even St. Louis where he developed his cornett skill. He started off on the cornet, brass instrument but later changed to the trumpet, which was a more expensive instrument for him. Armstrong was born in New Orleans in 1901. It was in his time when and his area where prostitution and mafias were coming to be. Louis was the grandson of slaves. Armstrong was born on the 4th of August 1901. When Luis was born, he was baptized at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church. He wasn’t very catholic Armstrong actually took interest in voodoo, which is a kind of magic and superstition, it was everywhere he went in New Orleans, and he could not really get around it. On the 5 and 6 of April 1923, Louis Armstrong created his first recordings. It took Louis a long time to record. There were three main reasons for this, one being that he had to overcome his shyness and obtain the necessary confidence. Second Mr. Armstrong’s solos long surpassed the limit of wax cylinders and early records. Lastly his boss Joe Oliver , who was farsighted, never understood the importance of Louis recording for jazz. During that session , many of his hits were recorded including: “Canal Street,” “Just Gone,” “Mandy Lee Blues,” “I’m Going to Wear You Off My Mind,” and as well as “Chimes Blues.” These are songs considered to pure New Orleans jazz. Armstrong married a…