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Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born in a very poor part of the city which was called “The Battlefield.” Louis Armstrong’s dad left his family a little bit after he was born and his mom was a prostitute, so he went to live with his grandma. When he was in fifth grade he had to quit school to get a job as a newspaper boy. On New Year’s Eve in 1912 he took his stepdad’s gun and fired it into the air then was arrested and sent to Colored Waif’s home for…

Louis Thomas Jordan was born on July 8, 1908 in Brinkley Arkansas. He is sometimes called “The Father of Rhythm and Blues” and “The Grandfather of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Louis Jordan was a great singer and saxophonist who started in the 1940’s. He was the leader of a band group called the “Jump Blues” or “Jump Jive.” He has collaborated with many of the Harlem Renaissance stars such as Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong. Louis Jordan was also an actor and a major black film personality…

gracing your lips. You feel butterflies in your stomach as you take your seat. The lights dim, and the velvet curtains slide open. The melodious tune of a trumpet fills your ears and you look onto the stage to see the man, the legend...Louis Armstrong. Today, Louis Armstrong holds the title as the world’s greatest jazz player. His rise to fame peaked in the 1920s, where he stunned the world with his bold trumpet style and idiosyncratic vocals. Coupled with his astonishing performing skills…

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…

Intro “There are two kinds of music, the good and the bad. I play the good kind” (Armstrong). Millions of people, starting in the 1930s until today, have agreed with Louis Armstrong’s famous words and have been huge fans of the famous musician. Louis Armstrong was an outstanding jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance Era. He was especially known for his spectacular trumpet playing, unmistakable voice, and exceptionally recognizable, broad smile. The beginning of his inspirational life set…

Do you love jazz music? Louis Armstrong became an amazing coronet player. He had a rough start in life, but overcame challenges. At first he wasn’t really out there for playing the cornet, but overtime jazz music became very popular and he became famous. Louis Armstrong was born August 4th, 1901. His dad, William Armstrong, was a mentor who also played the cornet and he was still only a little kid when his dad has left the house. Even then his mom left him, shrieking her parental…

Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong once said, “Music’s my language. One of those trips over the world, maybe the musicians can’t speak with you, but play ‘Struttin’ with Some Barbecue’ and they’ll know their parts and chime right in.” (UXL Biographies) What Louis Armstrong means is that no matter what language a person speaks, music is universal. For a young man who grew up with, at the very least, a spotty education—this fact is important for Louis Armstrong. What he may have lacked in formal…

Louis Armstrong was a lot of things while he was alive. He was a singer, a soloist, a film star, a comedian and also a fellow trumpeter (“Louis Armstrong Biography”). He wrote many hits during his time such as Starburst, La Vie En Rose and What A Wonderful World (“Louis Armstrong Biography”). Throughout not only his career, but also his life, he faced many struggles. Living in the early Nineteenth Century was already hard enough for a young black man but even harder for a young black…

Louis Armstrong, he was a very important artist during his time. He is is now like a symbol of the music. He start to play when he was very young. As in Source 6 says “at the age of eleven, Armstrong began to develop interest in music,.. Joe “King” Oliver, invite him and moved to Chicago”(Source 6-1) he starts to show interest for music in an early age and when Oliver invited him to go and play with him he accepted and there is where his career started. Armstrong technically changed the way…

Kerrigan 2 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.…