Louis Armstrong

he developed his trademark “crisp, jazzy song-and-dance style”. Calloway helped popularize the jitterbug through his unique style. Additionally, he was also a huge proponent of scat singing and helped popularize the singing style along with Louis Armstrong and others. Some of his most popular songs were Hi De Ho, The Jumpin’ Jive, The Lady with the Fan, Reefer Man, It Ain’t Necessarily So, and many other too. Most of his songs had a very upbeat and lively mood to them as they were meant to make…

Throughout the past few decades, our music taste, along with our society, has developed into an expressive community. People of all ages have been using music to express themselves for thousands of years. The 1920s, as well as 2000s are prominently known for their groundbreaking new sound. The two were ferociously popular in their time, but how can two genres, each with a different sound, be so popular? The purpose of the composer, instruments used and the sound produce, are vastly different…

Benny Goodman was named the King of Swing because he among many “ground breaking figures as Louis Armstrong or Charlie Parker” was the only one that had “explored the expressive potential of his instrument more influential” (Teachout 66). He also had a “bright tone and violent get controlled style the united with a performance unbeatable by any existing…

Louis Armstrong is, no doubt, is the one that popularized jazz more than other jazz musicians at the time. There were many other extraordinary musicians at that time, but Louis Armstrong was the lighthouse. Louis Armstrong grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Louis Armstrong was poor when he was young, with both of his parents working in the factory struggling to survive. Louis Armstrong had contact with jazz since he was a young kid, received his first cornet when he was twelve. Unfortunately,…

Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis “Summertime” by George Gershwin in a song from the opera Porgy & Bess. Gershwin composed Porgy & Bess in 1934. The libretto was from DuBose Heyward’s novel Porgy. Over time it become a widely known opera and one of the most frequently performed operas. Many great pieces of music were in Porgy & Bess but “Summertime” was one of the most well-known pieces to come from the opera. Because its melody is so strong and its cords so complex, it became one of the most…

Throughout the film, music is also used as a populist trope that unites Southerners, with the popular genre of folk music appearing in nearly every scene. In the South during the 1900s, folk music was the main source of musical entertainment, both for individuals and at large gatherings. At his rally in the town square, Homer Stokes had a folk band play “Keep on the Sunny Side,” uniting the crowd under their mutual love for folk music. At the end of the movie, when both gubernatorial candidates…

Current Events and Present Day Jazz o Jazz isn’t only defined as one set of rules but instead we recognize its history and its future rather than having a definitive “type”. o On April 7th, just 5 months ago, the world of jazz lost a legend, Eugene Louis Faccuito “Luigi” died at age…

azz is a very interesting form of music, From simple piano lines all the way down to squealing high notes coming from the ambrechure of a very talented trumpeter. It's all made from a swing beat or from a funky bass line. That's not the only interesting part, although the first jazz recording was published in 1917 its origins date all the way back to times of slavery when africans would be shipped to america and be sold in order to work on plantations (Atkins 6). Throughout the twenties jazz…

Lead by jazz director Marko Marcinko, with Jazz being one of my favorite forms of music, it was an honor to listen to Centre Dimensions Jazz Ensemble. Unfortunately, since I didn’t get the chance to listen to it live, I made sure to wear my beats headphones so I can hear every last instrument clearly. Instantaneously when the band started to play, I felt like I was in a 1920’s New Orleans club. The harmony was very upbeat and dance like, I began to tap my foot to the three beat tempo. The band…

seven and was influences by pianist, James Johnson and Willie the Lion Smith. He wrote his first song “The Soda Fountain Rag”, at the age of seventeen. This title was influenced by a small part-time job that he had as a soda jerk. Duke attended the Armstrong Training School to study commercial arts but he wanted to be a musician so he never completed his course. In 1918 he formed a group called “The Dukes” and they performed in Washington…