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 whi
"---"Jazz" documentary producer Ken Burns"If anybody was Mr. "--- Louis Armstrong "What we play is life"--- Louis Armstrong"I never tried to prove nothing, just wanted to give a good show. The recording technology luckily for Armstrong developed a lot throughout the 1910-1950s. But if I had to vote for one representative for jazz, that one would have to be Louis Armstrong" ---Art Hodes. While Louis was in America giving an concert in Europe at the same time people could listen to his recordings. Scat singing is vocalizing either wordlessly or with syllables which make no sense. " --- Ellis Marsalis "Armstrong is to music what Einstein is to physics and the Wright Brothers are to travel. Through the 1910's a lot of improvements were made on the recording technology luckily for Armstrong his songs could be heard with a better sound quality. ch would match soloists music and melody but they wouldn't play the same notes at the same time. " --- Louis Armstrong "Man, if you gotta ask, you'll never know. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation. The quality of the sound got better. The technology of recording music helped Louis Armstrong became an world wide star. In 1877 when the recorders were invested the quality of the sound could have been described with one word: terrible.
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