Louis Armstrong

             Louis Armstrong is one of the most important jazz musicians and one of the greatest jazz musicians of the world. He is also one of the most influential musicians in the jazz music and its history. He had a special voice which by some people was called a "gravel-voice". The style that he played is called "New Orleans-Dixieland setting". His technical abilities were amazing. He played with joy and amazingly quick, his music was natural, he swinged a lot too and everybody loved these abilities that he had. The records made by Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven are considered to be absolute jazz classics and speak of Armstrong's creative powers. His improvisation ability was his most amazing ability; he could improvise very quickly and beautiful music. He had a lot of influence in jazz changing from an ensemble improvisation to an solo improvisation. In ensemble improvisation the whole band improvises together at the same time and usually they play the same notes but in solo improvisation only one person plays the others support him. The person who is improvising as a solo plays louder than the rest of the band so he/she could be heard, the people who are supporting the soloist on the background play softly and play a music which would match soloists music and melody but they wouldn't play the same notes at the same time. Louis developed his own style of jazz singing he developed scat singing. Scat singing is vocalizing either wordlessly or with syllables which make no sense. Scat is a type of mouth music.
             The technology of recording music helped Louis Armstrong became an world wide star. His recording were sold and spread around the whole world. This way people could hear him playing without having to go to his performances and he could spread his music around the world without having to travel around the world. Without records his music wouldn't have gone to Europe and the other part of the word un...

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