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| Background information |
| Birth name: | Louis Armstrong |
| Called: | Satchmo, Pops, Sachimo |
| Born: | 04.August 1901,
in  New Orleans, Louis IANA, U.S.A. |
| Died: | 06.Juli 1971,
in Corona, Queens, New York town center, NY, U.S.A. |
| Occupation: | Trompeter, singer |
| Instruments: | Trumpet, cornet |
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| Discografie |
| Song: | April in Paris
Autumn in New York
Bake Home Again in Indiana
Basin Street Blues
Blueberry Hill
'Bout time
DO You Know What It Means ton measure new Orleans?
Dream A Little Dream OF ME
Hello, Dolly!
Jeepers Creepers
Let's DO It
Let's case in Love
Mack the Knife
Muggles
Now You Has jazz
On A Little Bamboo Bridge
Pennies from Heaven
Potato Head Blues
Shine
Skokiaan
Pc. James Infirmary Blues
Pc. Louis Blues
Standing on the Corner
Stardust
Star skin on Alabama
Ten Feet off the Ground
That Lucky old Sun
Tigers rise up
La Vie EN rose
Incoming goods Have universe the time into the World
West end to Blues
What A Wonderful World
When the Saints Go Marching in
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| Albums: |
The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve
Ella and Louis
Ella and Louis Again
High Society
Louis Armstrong Meets OSCAR Peterson
Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Mobile phone
Porgy and Bess
The material Ambassadors
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| Biografie |
Louis Armstrong indicated always 4 July, thus the independence day of the USA, the yearly 1900 as its date of birth. This was in particular usual under the black population of the USA often, if own date of birth and the birth circumstances do not admit were or to the social conceptions did not correspond. It fits likewise that he made himself one year older and its birth into the year of the turn of the century forced, which him as a young person the admission to the Etablissements of Storyville, for which nightclub district of new Orleans facilitated. Only from its 1983 discovered baptismal certificate real date of birth, 4 August 1901, comes out.
Armstrong was born in ärmlichsten conditions and buildup only temporarily with his mother. As a seven-year-old it had to sell newspapers. At the beginning of of 1913 it was instructed an institute for homeless black young people, because of unrest foundation into the Colored Waif's Home for Boys, after it had shot in New Year's Eve with the gun of its uncle into air.
In the strictly organized institute Armstrong learned the bases of the cornet play. Until 1918 it pierced itself with small jobs and first appearances as a musician in the red light environment of the city.
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Beginnings as musicians
1918 to 1919 played Armstrong regularly in that volume of Fate Marable on a Mississippi steamer, which maintained the passengers on the long trips river upward. 1918 are to have heard it thereby the 15-jährige Bix Beiderbecke in Dave haven. 1918 replaced Trompeter King olive in that to Armstrong volume, which led these together with the Posaunisten Kid Ory. When olive pulled to Chicago, Armstrong followed him 1922 and pushed as 2nd Trompeter to King Oliver's Creole Jazz volume, which played at that time in the Lincoln Gardens café in the South Side of Chicago. From this time there are already first remarkable clay/tone documents. In particular with its Live appearances the duo olive Armstrong with its zweistimmigen BREAK improvisations is to have written after numerous reports of contemporary witness music history. 1924 married Armstrong Lilian “Lil” Hardin, the Pianistin that originating from Memphis volume. Shortly thereafter it changed on its recommending into the volume of Fletcher Henderson, where it was promoted rapidly to the Starsolisten and in the shade of its instructor olive for no more had to stand.
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The Hot Five and Hot Seven
Armstrong left those Henderson volume 1925. Starting from this year developed numerous photographs, which main with small formations took to Lil and he, which called themselves Hot Five and Hot Seven. Many of these photographs have to today the character of absolute milestones of jazz history. In these years legendary and photographs pointing the way developed, like west end to Blues (selected from jazz critics to the jazz plate of the century), for Potato Head Blues, game one Blues, Fireworks and Heebie Jeebies. On these photographs Armstrong proves also its singular talent as a singer, in particular with the Scat singing. Remarkably also Armstrongs is co-operation with the pianist Earl Hines into the late 1920er years. In the year 1927 it changed its instrument from the cornet to the trumpet.
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The world star
Into the 1930er years, when the new jazz style of the Swing developed, Louis Armstrong stepped the new style accordingly, predominantly into Big of volume on (among other things the orchestra of Luis Russell) and became known rapidly within and outside of the USA. Starting from 1932 numerous tours led it to Europe, later into the whole world. 1947 dissolved Armstrong its Big volume and turned again to its origins, the new Orleans jazz and the small formations back (Louis Armstrong and his universe of star feat. Velma Middleton). In the 1950er and 1960er years was it in particular Armstrongs talent as singer and entertainer, that made it the world star. It obtained a further increase of its popularity by the Hollywoodfilme, in which it participated, like e.g. The Glenn Miller story, the upper ten thousand and the filming of Hello, Dolly!.
Its untiring energy and its many appearances demanded already early health tribute. Due to several serious crises the physicians Armstrong advised against trumpet plays, in order to preserve its health. To the public and its ambition commits, moved themselves Armstrong since this time more on the singing. In the year 1969 it interpreted John Barry/Hal David song incoming goods have all the time into the World to the James bond film in the secret service of your majesty with George Lazenby as 007. In this time he could not tie however, apart from exceptions (among other things the Gesangsduette with Ella Fitzgerald), because of its physical weakness any more to the innovative achievements of the 1920er and 1930er years than Jazztrompeter and jazz singers.
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Meaning and aftereffect
The president of the American Guild OF Variety Artists Youth find presents a price to Armstrong.
Armstrong had its stylistic roots in the new Orleans jazz. It has relevant portion of the development of this style direction away the solo one and justified „Starsolistentum put out by the collective Improvisation to “in the jazz. Also technically Armstrong set all yardsticks for Jazztrompeter in particular into the 1920er year practically. It can be regarded as one of the most important instrument therefore lists of the jazz at all.
It is inescapably audible that Armstrongs style affected all following Trompeter of the traditional jazz styles decided (an emancipation of the influence Armstrongs succeeded to Dizzy Gillespie in beginnings Roy Eldridge and later extensively only). Many black musicians of the modern jazz took and take badly to it however its Tomming (adjustment to the culture of the white ones) and accused to it the further development of the jazz starting from center of the 1940er years to have followed. Armstrongs influence is also today still (or perhaps again) noticeable with younger musicians, as for instance Wynton Marsalis.
Beyond that is Armstrong beside Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald of one the most important, if not the most important singer of the jazz, whose unmistakable voice justified its world-wide popularity.
On 6 July 1971 Louis Armstrong in New York in the sleep died.
It has a star on the Hollywood mills OF Fame.
The second largest Tenniscourt in Flushing Meadows (US open) is designated after it.
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