Our final person we chose was Louis Armstrong. Imagine you’re walking through Chicago during the 1920s. You walk into the Lincoln Gardens to listen to Joe Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band. You begin to listen and look to see a man, barely 21, playing second cornet like nobody’s business. This is your first experience of Louis Armstrong. This is the man that will change the genre of Jazz and it will never be the same. Born on August 4, 1901, Louis Daniel Armstrong came into this world and was raised on the streets to fend for himself and his family after his father left his him, his mother and his sister when he was 3. He made money by selling coal to brothels and this is where he was introduced to Joe “King” Oliver, who would go on to be his mentor
