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Vor 2 Tagen · 13. Herbie Hancock. 14. Oscar Peterson. 15. Charles Mingus. 1. Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), often referred to as Satchmo or Pops, was a pioneering American jazz trumpeter ...
Vor 4 Tagen · With only a fifth-grade education, an American jazz musician, Louis Armstrong, entered music history as a king of jazz and one of the most influential jazzmen of the 20 th century. In this article, we invite our readers to explore key facts about Louis Armstrong’s life and musical career.
Vor 5 Tagen · 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. As legend has it, Satchmo dropped his song sheet during the recording session and resorted to inserting nonsense syllables in place of lyrics.
Vor 4 Tagen · This page indexes the individual year in jazz pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point. Jazz portal; 2020s - 2010s - 2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1910s - 1900s - Pre-1900s. 2020s. 2024 in jazz; 2023 in jazz, death of Karl Berger; 2022 in jazz, death of Grachan Moncur ...
Vor 3 Tagen · On January 1, 1913, Louis Armstrong attended a New Year’s Eve parade and shot six blanks from his stepfather’s .38 revolver. A policeman arrested him on the spot. Later that day, Judge Andrew Wilson sentenced the young boy to the Colored Waif’s Home, a reform school on the outskirts of New Orleans.
Vor 4 Tagen · In 1925, Bessie Smith, the greatest blues singer of the time, recorded a stellar version of “St. Louis Blues” alongside a young cornet star named Louis Armstrong, who was setting the jazz world on fire with his exciting improvisations.
Vor 3 Tagen · A female singer was known as a “canary,” and a vocalist, male or female, who substituted nonsense syllables for words was known as a “scat singer.” Harry Mills, Mel Torme, Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Armstrong, Bing Crosby and Lena Horne were among the best singers who could “scat.” Members of a swing band were called “cats.”
