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Vor einem Tag · Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, a self-described Armstrong admirer, asserted that a 1952 Louis Armstrong concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris played a significant role in inspiring him to create the fictional creatures called Cronopios that are the subject of a number of Cortázar's short stories. Cortázar once called Armstrong himself "Grandísimo Cronopio" (The Great ...
Vor 5 Tagen · May 22, 2024. Louis Armstrong BBC Photo Archive. Louis Armstrong ’s 1968 BBC session in London — which the legendary trumpeter and singer felt was his “last great” performance — will ...
Vor 5 Tagen · February 26, 2019. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five – “Heebie Jeebies” by Brian Zimmerman. Recorded in Chicago on this day in 1926, Louis Armstrong’s “Heebie Jeebies” is said to contain the first example of scat singing in jazz history.
Vor einem Tag · Billie Holiday. Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed " Lady Day " by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly influenced by jazz instrumentalists, inspired a ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Louis Armstrong and the Vipers - JAZZIZ Magazine. A Short History of …. Louis Armstrong and the Vipers. In the ’20s and ’30s, marijuana was the jazz world’s drug of choice. Many musicians made use of it and accepted it as a gift from fans and well-wishers. An entire body of songs written during those years was created around it.
Vor 5 Tagen · Here, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong performed definitive duet versions of classic compositions, many of which originated from Great Depression musicals. They share a lovers’ intimacy on their version of Irving Berlin’s “Cheek to Cheek,” backed by a then-young Canadian pianist named Oscar Peterson, leading a quartet.
Vor 5 Tagen · Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s originating from African-American music. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, [1] which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz, and swing music.
