The 1920s was also known as the decade of change to many, but some people knew it as the Jazz Age because of the popularity it was gaining. However, because the origin of jazz is Creole, it caused the music to endure many racist remarks. In addition, the unique rhythm and sway of jazz weren’t well liked by people who thought it didn’t fit their idea of “real music”. Jazz originates in New Orleans, and its roots are in blues music, created during the Civil War by African Americans. Influential jazz figures started to increase in numbers, in particular Louis Armstrong, recognized by his powerful swings and way of using his voice. Born on August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Louis Armstrong changed the 1920s by giving jazz an identity. Louis
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An early job working for the Jewish Karnofsky family allowed Armstrong to make enough money to purchase his first cornet.” On New Year's Eve, 1912, Louis Armstrong would get arrested for firing a pistol to celebrate the occasion. He was sent to Colored Waif’s Home For Boys where he learned to play the cornet from Peter Davis and would inspire the young Armstrong to dedicate himself to playing the cornet and later the trumpet. “My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn,”-Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong played in many bands; mentored by “King” Oliver, he started his career and success. According to “Louis Armstrong House Museum,” it states, “Armstrong soon became one of the most in-demand cornetists in town, eventually working steadily on Mississippi riverboats. In 1922, King Oliver sent Louis Armstrong to join his band in Chicago.” While Armstrong didn’t have the style he was known for at the time, his prominence was starting to grow, and the bands he played in helped Armstrong develop his own career. Armstrong was dating Lillian Hardin, who was the pianist for the band, and would later marry …show more content…
But due to Armstrong’s southern background, it didn’t mix well with the northern mentality of other musicians from Henderson. According to “Louis Armstrong” by Biography.com Editors and Tyler Piccottl, it states, “However, Armstrong’s southern background didn’t mesh well with the more urban, Northern mentality of Henderson’s other musicians, who sometimes gave Armstrong a hard time over his wardrobe and the way he talked. Henderson also forbade Armstrong from singing, fearing that his rough way of vocalizing would be too coarse for the sophisticated audiences at the Roseland Ballroom.” Louis Armstrong would get his own band to record with and have his own style of playing jazz. According to “Louis Armstrong House Museum,” it states, “The records by Louis Armstrong and His Five–and later, Hot Seven–are the most influential in jazz from an ensemble-based music into a soloist’s art, while his expressive vocals incorporated innovative burst of scat singing and an underlying swing feel.” Louis Armstrong would play in New York and even in Europe from 1932 to 1933. During 1947, the popularity of big bands made Louis Armstrong form a small
An early job working for the Jewish Karnofsky family allowed Armstrong to make enough money to purchase his first cornet.” On New Year's Eve, 1912, Louis Armstrong would get arrested for firing a pistol to celebrate the occasion. He was sent to Colored Waif’s Home For Boys where he learned to play the cornet from Peter Davis and would inspire the young Armstrong to dedicate himself to playing the cornet and later the trumpet. “My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn,”-Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong played in many bands; mentored by “King” Oliver, he started his career and success. According to “Louis Armstrong House Museum,” it states, “Armstrong soon became one of the most in-demand cornetists in town, eventually working steadily on Mississippi riverboats. In 1922, King Oliver sent Louis Armstrong to join his band in Chicago.” While Armstrong didn’t have the style he was known for at the time, his prominence was starting to grow, and the bands he played in helped Armstrong develop his own career. Armstrong was dating Lillian Hardin, who was the pianist for the band, and would later marry …show more content…
But due to Armstrong’s southern background, it didn’t mix well with the northern mentality of other musicians from Henderson. According to “Louis Armstrong” by Biography.com Editors and Tyler Piccottl, it states, “However, Armstrong’s southern background didn’t mesh well with the more urban, Northern mentality of Henderson’s other musicians, who sometimes gave Armstrong a hard time over his wardrobe and the way he talked. Henderson also forbade Armstrong from singing, fearing that his rough way of vocalizing would be too coarse for the sophisticated audiences at the Roseland Ballroom.” Louis Armstrong would get his own band to record with and have his own style of playing jazz. According to “Louis Armstrong House Museum,” it states, “The records by Louis Armstrong and His Five–and later, Hot Seven–are the most influential in jazz from an ensemble-based music into a soloist’s art, while his expressive vocals incorporated innovative burst of scat singing and an underlying swing feel.” Louis Armstrong would play in New York and even in Europe from 1932 to 1933. During 1947, the popularity of big bands made Louis Armstrong form a small