Armstrong

Jazz Musician of the Day: Louis Armstrong

Source: Michael Ricci
August 4, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Louis Armstrong's birthday today!

By virtue of the role he played in its evolution during the first quarter of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong is regarded as the most influential jazz musician in history. This distinction is coupled with his stewardship of jazz around the world over the next five decades as the earliest and greatest ambassador of America's first true musical art form. With the liberating effects of the Jazz Age reverberating on world ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Lil Hardin Armstrong

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong's birthday today!

Lil Hardin helped introduce America to jazz music. She was a dedicated jazz pianist, who established a reputation as “Hot Miss Lil," one of the few female band ensemble members of the 1920’s. She played on many of the first jazz recordings ever made and she wrote many of the early songs of the jazz era. Though she might be identified in the jazz world as the wife of Louis ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Louis Armstrong

Source: Michael Ricci
August 4, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Louis Armstrong's birthday today!

By virtue of the role he played in its evolution during the first quarter of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong is regarded as the most influential jazz musician in history. This distinction is coupled with his stewardship of jazz around the world over the next five decades as the earliest and greatest ambassador of America's first true musical art form. With the liberating effects of the Jazz Age reverberating on world ...
read more

Jazz Musician of the Day: Lil Hardin Armstrong

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong's birthday today!

Lil Hardin helped introduce America to jazz music. She was a dedicated jazz pianist, who established a reputation as “Hot Miss Lil," one of the few female band ensemble members of the 1920’s. She played on many of the first jazz recordings ever made and she wrote many of the early songs of the jazz era. Though she might be identified in the jazz world as the wife of Louis ...
read more

Jazz Musician of the Day: Louis Armstrong

Source: Michael Ricci
August 4, 2021

All About Jazz is celebrating Louis Armstrong's birthday today!

By virtue of the role he played in its evolution during the first quarter of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong is regarded as the most influential jazz musician in history. This distinction is coupled with his stewardship of jazz around the world over the next five decades as the earliest and greatest ambassador of America's first true musical art form. With the liberating effects of the Jazz Age reverberating on world ...
read more

Jazz Musician of the Day: Lil Hardin Armstrong

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2021

All About Jazz is celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong's birthday today!

Lil Hardin helped introduce America to jazz music. She was a dedicated jazz pianist, who established a reputation as “Hot Miss Lil," one of the few female band ensemble members of the 1920’s. She played on many of the first jazz recordings ever made and she wrote many of the early songs of the jazz era. Though she might be identified in the jazz world as the wife of Louis ...
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Louis Armstrong: Denmark 1933

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
November 5, 2020

Back in 1933, before the hamming and caricature roles in movies, Armstrong was in Copenhagen, Denmark, during a year-long tour of Europe. There, three songs were filmed, the first time Armstrong was captured by a movie camera. What we see and hear is Armstrong on stage at the Tivoli Concert Hall playing and singing jazz's swing foundation, which would hold for the next two decades and beyond. Listen to his vocal, how he phrases and bends notes; listen to what ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Louis Armstrong

Source: Michael Ricci
August 4, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Louis Armstrong's birthday today!

By virtue of the role he played in its evolution during the first quarter of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong is regarded as the most influential jazz musician in history. This distinction is coupled with his stewardship of jazz around the world over the next five decades as the earliest and greatest ambassador of America's first true musical art form. With the liberating effects of the Jazz Age reverberating on world ...
read more

Jazz Musician of the Day: Lil Hardin Armstrong

Source: Michael Ricci
February 3, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong's birthday today!

Lil Hardin helped introduce America to jazz music. She was a dedicated jazz pianist, who established a reputation as “Hot Miss Lil," one of the few female band ensemble members of the 1920’s. She played on many of the first jazz recordings ever made and she wrote many of the early songs of the jazz era. Though she might be identified in the jazz world as the wife of Louis ...
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New Louis Armstrong Live

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
October 28, 2019

It may be too easy to take Louis Armstrong for granted. After all, he is one of the greatest musicians of the Twentieth Century. Perhaps we all conclude that we understand why. Then, along comes yet another reminder of the intensity, the sheer strength, of his musicianship. The most recent reissue to remind us of his inimitable energy and creativity is the Dot Time release Louis Armstrong Live In Europe. It’s not just his astonishing trumpet playing that can drive ...
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