Louis Armstrong - Wikipedia

Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that August 4 is the anniversary of the birth of American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor
Louis Daniel Armstrong who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.
Rest in peace Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong!

Jazz Docu - Louis Armstrong - The Wonderful World Of Louis Armstrong
"Profile of Louis Armstrong, the jazz legend whose glittering career included the hits What a Wonderful World and the James Bond theme We Have All the Time in the World.
Aside from his astonishing musical success, Armstrong also found time to appear in films and act as a global ambassador. Tributes and anecdotes are given by the likes of Max Roach, George Melly, Dave Brubeck and Humphrey Lyttelton."

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Images:
1. 1918 Louis Armstrong and Kid Ory
2. Louis Armstrong Elementary School picture
3. Louis Armstrong with his fourth and final wife Lucille Wilson [1942-1971]
4. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, 1926


Biographies:
1. imdb.com/name/nm0001918/bio
2. pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/louis-armstrong-about-louis-armstrong

1. Background from {[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001918/bio]}
"Biography Louis Daniel Armstrong
Overview
Born August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Died July 6, 1971 in New York City, New York, USA (heart attack)
Birth Name Louis Daniel Armstrong
Nicknames The King of the Jazz Trumpet; Satchmo; Pops
Height 5' 6" (1.68 m)

Mini Bio
Louis Armstrong grew up poor in a single-parent household. He was 13 when he celebrated the New Year by running out on the street and firing a pistol that belonged to the current man in his mother's life. At the Colored Waifs Home for Boys, he learned to play the bugle and the clarinet and joined the home's brass band. They played at socials, picnics and funerals for a small fee. At 18 he got a job in the Kid Ory Band in New Orleans. Four years later, in 1922, he went to Chicago, where he played second coronet in the Creole Jazz Band. He made his first recordings with that band in 1923. In 1929 Armstrong appeared on Broadway in "Hot Chocolates", in which he introduced Fats Waller's "Ain't Misbehavin', his first popular song hit. He made a tour of Europe in 1932. During a command performance for King George V, he forgot he had been told that performers were not to refer to members of the royal family while playing for them. Just before picking up his trumpet for a really hot number, he announced: "This one's for you, Rex."
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Dale O'Connor < [login to see] .net>

Spouse (4)
Lucille Wilson (12 October 1942 - 6 July 1971) ( his death)
Alpha Smith (11 October 1938 - 1942) ( divorced)
Lil Armstrong (4 February 1924 - 1938) ( divorced)
Daisy Parker (19 March 1918 - 18 December 1923) ( divorced)

Trade Mark (1)
Distinctive gravelly singing voice

Trivia (21)
1. Satchmo became Armstrong's nickname after his 1932 Grand Tour of Europe. A London music magazine editor wrote "Satchmo" in an article -- probably because he could not read his garbled notes. Up until that time, Armstrong's nickname was Satchelmouth.
2. Pictured on a 32¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Legends of American Music series, issued 1 September 1995.
3. Posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1990) (under the category Early Influence).
4. Posthumously inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1978) (charter member).
5. He was nicknamed "Pops" because that is the name he addressed everyone by. Later on in his career, he picked up the sobriquet "America's Jazz Ambassador" because of his frequent jazz concerts around the world.
6. For most of his life, Louis Armstrong always gave July 4, 1900, as his birthdate, possibly because it was easy to remember. In all likelihood, he probably believed it himself. It wasn't until many years after his death that a birth record was found confirming the correct date as August 4, 1901.
7. Although his career as a recording artist dates back to the 1920s, when he made now-classic recordings with Joe 'King' Oliver, Bessie Smith and the legendary Jimmie Rodgers, as well as his own Hot Five and Hot Seven groups, his biggest hits as a recording artist came comparatively late in his life: "Mack the Knife" (1956), "Hello, Dolly!" (a #1 hit in 1964), "What a Wonderful World" (1968) and "We Have All the Time in the World" (over 20 years after his death).
8. Interestingly enough, Armstrong had never heard of either the song or show "Hello, Dolly!" when he recorded it. To him, it was just the lead song on an album of show tunes, and he was more surprised than anyone when both the single and the album (Kapp 1964) went to #1 on the Billboard charts. What makes this accomplishment all the more remarkable is that it happened at the height of the so-called "British Invasion", when The Beatles and other British rock groups seemed to be dominating every aspect of the pop music charts. Armstrong later repeated his hit in the show's film version (Hello, Dolly!(1969)), singing it to Barbra Streisand.
9. Although the term didn't exist during his lifetime, there is much evidence to indicate that he may have been bulemic. He believed that it didn't matter what you ate, as long as you purged yourself regularly afterwards. He would do that with the help of an herbal laxative called Swiss Kriss, and even handed out mimeographed sheets on his diet regimen to friends. In all probability, this contributed to the health problems he suffered in the last years of his life.
10. Refused to go a State Department-sponsored concert tour of the Soviet Union in 1959 because he felt the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower wasn't doing enough to promote civil rights legislation.
11. Embittered by the treatment of blacks in his hometown of New Orleans, he chose to be buried in New York City.
12. The slang terms "cat" meaning a man about town and "chops" meaning a musician's playing ability were first coined by him.
13. Louis Armstrong passed away on July 6, 1971, a month away from what would have been his 70th birthday on August 4.
14. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7018 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
15. Doc Louis, the trainer character in the boxing video game Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!(1987), is based on his likeness.
16. When he died, his home was in the Corona section of Queens County, New York City. Today, it remains a museum where fans can check out his residence and its belongings as a citizen of New York City.
17. He was laid to rest at the Flushing Cemetery, Section 9 in Flushing, Queens, New York City not too far from his home in Corona, Queens. His tombstone is a red granite, emblazoned simply "Satchmo" Louis Armstrong with a beautiful white trumpet figure laden on top. Buried with him is his last of four wives, Lucille Armstrong who died in 1983.
18. On June 26, 1950, he recorded the American version of the French songs "La Vie en rose" and "C'est si bon". "La Vie en rose" was written by Louiguy (music) and Édith Piaf (lyrics) in 1946 and "C'est si bon" was written by Henri Betti (music) and André Hornez (lyrics) in 1947. The English lyrics of "La Vie en rose" were written by Mack David and the English lyrics of "C'est si bon" were written by Jerry Seelen. The recording took place in New York with Sy Oliver and his Orchestra.
19. Was good friends with Ella Fitzgerald.
20. Posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame (2007).
21. Posthumously inducted into the Long Island Hall of Fame (2008).

Personal Quotes (7)
1. I never tried to prove nothing, just wanted to give a good show. My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.
2. All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
3. What is jazz? Man, if you have to ask you'll never know.
4. There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
5. If it wasn't for jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.
6. [on being asked about his #1 song "Hello Dolly"] It sure feels good to be up there with [The Beatles].
7. A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

2. Background from {[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/louis-armstrong-about-louis-armstrong/528/]}
"Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong-Louis Armstrong Biography
July 6, 2005


Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.” — Wynton Marsalis
From a New Orleans boys’ home to Hollywood, Carnegie Hall, and television, the tale of Louis Armstrong’s life and triumphant six-decade career epitomizes the American success story. His trumpet playing revolutionized the world of music, and he became one of our century’s most recognized and best loved entertainers. Now, thirty years after his death, Armstrong’s work as an instrumentalist and vocalist continue to have a profound impact on American music. As a black man living and working in a segregated society, he symbolized the civil rights struggle that was part of the changing America in which he lived.
Born in New Orleans on August 4, 1901, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong was heir to the poverty suffered by Southern blacks at the turn of the century. At the age of eleven, Armstrong began to develop an interest in music, harmonizing on street corners and playing a toy horn. Arrested for disturbing the peace, on New Year’s Eve, 1913, he was remanded to the New Orleans Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. In and out of the home throughout his teenage years, Armstrong was taken under the wing of Peter Davis, who taught music there. Under Davis’s tutelage, Armstrong joined a band, and his talent blossomed. He left the Waif’s Home in 1914, and began to play the cornet around New Orleans. In 1921, at the invitation of the great cornetist Joe “King” Oliver, Armstrong moved to Chicago.
In the 1920s, Armstrong performed with a number of different musical groups, and began to revolutionize the jazz world with his introduction of the extended solo. Prior to his arrival, jazz music was played either in highly orchestrated arrangements or in a more loosely structured “Dixieland”-type ensemble in which no one musician soloed for any extended period. Musicians everywhere soon began to imitate his style, and Armstrong himself became a star attraction. His popularity was phenomenal, and throughout the 1920s he was one of the most sought-after musicians in both New York and Chicago. Armstrong’s HOT FIVE and HOT SEVEN recordings remain to this day some of the best loved of the time.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s Armstrong maintained one of the most grueling continual tours of all time. He began playing with the large bands that were popular at the time, but soon realized that his style was better suited to a smaller ensemble. With the help of manager, Joe Glaser, he formed Louis Armstrong and His All Stars. The band, which had a rotating cast of “all stars,” first included Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, Earl Hines, and Big Sid Catlett. Though many believed the 40s marked the beginning of a decline of Armstrong’s playing, the recordings bear out his continued technical proficiency, spirited interpretations, and the depth and soul of his playing during these years.
The 1950s proved to be a regeneration for Armstrong as both a musician and a public figure. Though he had been singing since his early days in Chicago, it was not until the 1950s that audiences recognized his remarkable skill as a singer as well. His rough and throaty voice became, almost instantly, the internationally recognized voice of jazz itself. His 1956 recording with Ella Fitzgerald of George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” was one of the most popular and best loved duets of the 1950s. For many, his “scat” singing was the perfection of a genre just then in its infancy. With his increasing fame, however, came the criticism of a black community that felt he was not living up to the responsibilities of the times. The late fifties brought with them the civil rights movement, and many blacks saw Armstrong as an “uncle tom,” playing for primarily white audiences around the world. Though adamant that these claims were unjust, Armstrong was then in his sixties and primarily concerned with continuing to travel and perform.
Armstrong spent the final decade of his life in the same way that he had spent the four previous — entertaining audiences throughout the world. In 1971, he died of a heart attack in New York City. Though the history of jazz is filled with many exceptional and innovative musicians, it is hard to find any one who has had as profound an influence on the movement as Louis Armstrong. Armstrong’s legacy is more than simply his virtuoso trumpet playing (for which nearly every trumpet player since seems indebted), but his great formal innovations as well. His commitment to the search for new forms in jazz and his continued heartfelt performances will remain a major symbol not only of the musical life, but of the entire cultural life of 20th-century America."


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