The Life Of Louis Armstrong: Influenced The World Of Music

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The Life of Louis Armstrong

Kiyah Sewell
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November 8, 2017

In the 1920’s a man by the name of Louis Armstrong changed the world of Jazz and began to give this genre a more powerful meaning. Looking into one of the more influential people of the Jazz world, he was born in New Orleans where he learned how to play the instruments and evolved as a musician (NPR part 2). Louis Armstrong had a rough life as a child, he used music as an escape in a way and did so by following his mentor as he grew up, King Oliver. He grew into the Jazz world quickly with his different style and transformed into a new era that would later be known as the “Swing Era”. Louis created a new type of music which had more rhythm to it than other songs at the time. He did so by mixing his new style with that of Fletcher Henderson (NPR part 2).
Born on August 4, 1901, Armstrong was cared for by his grandmother in New Orleans until he …show more content…

Louis began to play in other bands after he moved on from that and his skills as a musician continued to grow and grow which helped his rise to fame even more. With word spreading about Louis’s rise to fame and his musical talent, word got to his mentor, King Oliver (wwnorton). When his mentor got into contact with Louis, he gave Louis a chance to join his band as a second trumpet. Louis’s ability as a soloist was too much for his mentor and his virtuosic abilities caused word to spread even further. After marrying a woman by the name of Lil Hardin, Louis was convinced by his new wife to join Fletcher Henderson in the city of New York (wwnorton). Joining this new band wasn’t just a step up from his other bands, but was also the start to a new era of jazz music. As Bing Crosby once said: “The beginning and the end of music in America.” Louis was the beginning to something amazing in America and things could only get

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