Cornet

Louis Armstrong, one of the most famous figures in the history of jazz history, was a genius performer and original and motivational musician. He was also huge impact in the Harlem renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a huge explosion during post- world war I of new creativity, where African Americans attempted to be recognized, and New York was the most popular place where music and theatre was well known. Louis Armstrong or "Satchmo" was one of the most popular musicians of the 1920’s. He…

In the 1920’s he played on the riverboats of Mississippi. He did not start his ascent to fame when he was asked to be in a leading band in Chicago, as the second cornet, in 1922. The name of the band was Oliver’s Creole Jazz. Its members were the brothers Johnny and Baby Dodds and his to be wife Lil Hardin, the lead pianist of the group. They were married in 1924. He recorded his first solos in pieces as “Tears”…

" "La Via En Rose" and "What a Wonderful World." Louis Armstrong was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist who was a standout amongst the most powerful figures in jazz music. Well known for his inventive strategies for playing the trumpet and cornet, he was additionally an exceedingly capable vocalist favored with an effective gravelly voice. Known for his impromptu creation aptitudes, Armstrong could twist and wind the verses and tune of a tune with emotional impacts. Coming to noticeable…

Louis Armstrong also known as Satchmo and or Pops was a great American Jazz artist who came from very humble beginnings to become one of the greatest music legends of all times. Known not only for his great talents on the trumpet but, for the cornet and his scat-style singing. A style of vocal jazz creativeness in which the vocalist alternates nonsense syllables for lyrics. Scat singing is often used to emulate the type of musical line that a jazz instrumentalist would play. Armstrong…

3 minute mark , the beat speeds up slightly, as if to suggest tribulations or a slight sign of hope and light amongst the gray tone that has been present for the majority of the song With the help of a steady, high-pitched beat of the trombone and cornet, there is a the suggestion of the establishment of a new routine, one slightly more comfortable and upbeat but still dreary However, the spike in beat plateaus back into its original,…

The mood that conveys the story is what draws readers in. The suspense, the passion, the way the book makes readers feel about the situation is helped with the mood. “ Whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolo, and low and high drums.”(The Great Gatsby, paragraph 2). This passage gives the feeling of excess, with the only the rich being able to afford the orchestra of such extravagance. “The cars from New York…”(The Great Gatsby, paragraph 2)…

sixty records. These records later went on to become the most influential in jazz history, as it was the first time Armstrong facilitated the evolution of jazz as a ensemble to a soloist art. Because of Armstrong’s brilliance, his records such as “Cornet Chop Suey” and “Potato Head Blues” are esteemed because of his risky rhythmic choices and high notes. Another one of Armstrong’s notable qualities, “scat singing” (wordless singing/mummering) was also popularized during this…

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…

In the play “A Free man of Color” by John Guare, Jacques Cornet is an affluent black man living in Louisiana. When you hear a statement like that, most people wouldn't believe it to be true, but yes, Jacques Cornet was the centerpiece of his town and most popular person in Louisiana. He loved clothing, he loved women, he loved money, and so on. In this historical timeframe however, something threatens his freedom and Jacques struggles to save his last bit of dignity when he is faced with the raw…

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…