Little Louis Armstrong later bought his first cornet ... These Uptown musicians drew upon an African musical template and preferred improvisation to written music. While jazz was aborning Uptown ...

This was the first ensemble with which Mike began to form his idea of spontaneous composition instead of free improvisation ... allow for superior sound quality of the music of Louis Armstrong's Hot ...

Louis Armstrong’s virtuosic trumpet playing and innovative ... “Headhunters” combined jazz improvisation with funk grooves and electronic textures, creating a sound that was both sophisticated and ...

It was during this time that he met Louis Armstrong who taught him to sing in the “scat ... His vocal style is a blend of hot scat singing and improvisation. In 1941 Calloway separated with Dizzy ...

Nicknamed “Satchmo” or “Pops,” New Orleans-born Louis Armstrong was one of jazz ... Mingus championed collective improvisation in the various groups he led, using his compositions ...

Like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington was a musician ... more ambitious pieces that featured extended passages of improvisation. While the major labels were suspicious of this new music, smaller ...

Louis Daniel Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901. He was among the most influential figures in jazz, with a career spanning ...

Despite Armstrong’s own words supporting much of the story, many trusted Riccardi’s posts debunking it. One well-known Jewish historian furiously exclaimed, “ENOUGH! The head of the Louis ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center is presenting four concerts this weekend that will reimagine Louis Armstrong’s and Dave Brubeck’s 1962 album, The Real Ambassadors.

Louis Armstrong was born into poverty in New Orleans in 1907, but by the time he died 70 years later his talents as a singer, trumpet player and band leader had transformed him into a global ...