Articulo (Inglés) Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong
This is one of the most charismatic and innovative jazz history, and probably the most popular, musicians.
Thanks to his musical skills transformed jazz into apopular art form.
He was born on July 4 1990 in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a very poor family.
Grandson of slaves, he spent his youth in poverty, in a rough neighborhood ofUptown New Orleans, known as “Back of the Town”.
Armstrong developed his cornet playing seriously in the band of the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs, where he had been sentmultiple times for general delinquency, most notably for a long term after firing his stepfather's pistol into the air at a New Year's Eve celebration.
In his early years, Armstrongwas best known for his virtuosity with the cornet and trumpet. His best sound can be heard on recordings with his Hot Five and Hot Seven. The improvisations he made on thoserecordings on standard New Orleans jazz and other popular songs of the time, have stood the test of time perfectly to the point to bear comparison with any other made by laterinterpreters.
Armstrong died of a heart attack in his sleep on July 6, 1971, a month before his 70th birthday.
He was not only an entertainer. Armstrong was a leading personality ofthe day who was so beloved by America that gave even the greatest African American performers little access beyond their public celebrity, that he was able to live privately alife of access and privilege accorded to few other African Americans.
He tried to remain politically neutral, which gave him a large part of that access, but often alienated himfrom members of the black community who looked to him to use his prominence with white America to become more of an outspoken figure during the Civil Rights Era of U.S. history.
This is one of the most charismatic and innovative jazz history, and probably the most popular, musicians.
Thanks to his musical skills transformed jazz into apopular art form.
He was born on July 4 1990 in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a very poor family.
Grandson of slaves, he spent his youth in poverty, in a rough neighborhood ofUptown New Orleans, known as “Back of the Town”.
Armstrong developed his cornet playing seriously in the band of the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs, where he had been sentmultiple times for general delinquency, most notably for a long term after firing his stepfather's pistol into the air at a New Year's Eve celebration.
In his early years, Armstrongwas best known for his virtuosity with the cornet and trumpet. His best sound can be heard on recordings with his Hot Five and Hot Seven. The improvisations he made on thoserecordings on standard New Orleans jazz and other popular songs of the time, have stood the test of time perfectly to the point to bear comparison with any other made by laterinterpreters.
Armstrong died of a heart attack in his sleep on July 6, 1971, a month before his 70th birthday.
He was not only an entertainer. Armstrong was a leading personality ofthe day who was so beloved by America that gave even the greatest African American performers little access beyond their public celebrity, that he was able to live privately alife of access and privilege accorded to few other African Americans.
He tried to remain politically neutral, which gave him a large part of that access, but often alienated himfrom members of the black community who looked to him to use his prominence with white America to become more of an outspoken figure during the Civil Rights Era of U.S. history.
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