Biography of Louis Armstrong, Masterful Trumpeter.
Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory, literary criticism, intermedia studies, cultural history, and musicology, Daniel Stein reconstructs Armstrong's performances of his life story.
Louis Armstrong was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist whose career spanned over 50 years. This New Orleans native is perhaps the most influential pioneer of jazz music in its history. Please.
Louis Armstrong’s mother, Mayann Armstrong was a prostitute in Louis’ early years. Louis spent the first years of his life living with his paternal grandmother, Josephine Armstrong. After age five, Louis lived in a two room house near Liberty and Perdido Streets with his mother and sister, Beatrice who was nicknamed Mama Lucy. The family lived in stark poverty. Louis Armstrong started work.
In this autobiography, jazz icon Louis Armstrong recounts his youth growing up in 19 teens and '20s New Orleans. Armstrong recounts his colorful, albeit dirt poor, upbringing in the Louisiana city. More than the average celebrity autobiography, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans offers a candid, raunchy, rollicking look at the people and places in NOLA history that have now come to embody the.
Louis Armstrong, p.2 New York City was the place where many jazz artists built their careers. So in 1924 Louis moved to New York at the request of famous New York bandleader Fletcher Henderson. It was also then that Louis switched to the trumpet to blend his sound better with the other members of the trumpet section. His energetic and creative.
Louis Armstrong: a Biography Many Americans enjoy sitting back, relaxing, and listening to the jazz and swing rhythms of one of the best musicians of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong.Louis Armstrong is easily recognized by simply listening to his infamous raspy voice and legendary, creative skill on the trumpet.All Armstrong had to do to play beautifully was to play one note.
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