Louis Armstrong Contribution

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It is amazing to think about when Louis Armstrong was born. Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans,Loiusiana in a section so poor that it was nicknamed the Battlefield. Louis Armstrong had a difficult childhood, his father was a factory worker and abandoned the family soon after Louis’s birth, his ,other often turned to prostitution, She left him with his grandmother.Amrstrong was obligated to leave school in the fifth grade to begin working.
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So after all after Armstrong had to leave school he learned to play the cornet in a boy school. After Louis quit his hard labor jobs he played cornet full time where he met Bix Beiderbecke. In 1925 he began recording under his own name with his famous Hot Five and Hot
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Here it goes this women’s name was Lil Hardin she was the band’s piano player and the future Mrs. Armstrong Louis sat Lil Hardin in the second trumpet chair so that the saxophone player Oliver will still be king. As Louis played Hardin was greatly influenced by Armstrong’s technique and style, also convinced Lil Hardin to leave the band. When he influenced Lil Hardin she started her own career and she made her a fortune off of it because she got her techniques from Louis and he played very good music on his trumpet. I think it was really cool the way that Lil Hardin learned by listening to Louis Armstrong because she got her skills and a better technique. Now these day’s Lil Hardin is famous because she learned how to play the trumpet by Louis Armstrong.
Conclusion/Death:
Have you ever wondered how Louis Armstrong died?
So let me tell you about how he died the way he died was after a concert he had gone home and went to sleep and on July 7, 1971, early that morning he died in his sleep at his home in Corona of Queens. Well the way he really died was by a Heart Attack which is a medical emergency. This stage only occurs when a blood clot blocks the flow of the heart. The way it looks it really sounds bad because he was the father of jazz and he was an inspiration to Lil Hardin and that probably hurt her a lot because he taught her the way to play the trumpet.
R.I.P

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