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Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, a self-described Armstrong admirer, asserted that a 1952 Louis Armstrong concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris played a significant role in inspiring him to create the fictional creatures called Cronopios that are the subject of a number of Cortázar's short stories. Cortázar once called ...
Poster advertising a 1959 Louis Armstrong concert in Beirut, Lebanon. Jazz ambassadors is the name often given to jazz musicians who were sponsored by the US State Department to tour Eastern Europe, the Middle East, central and southern Asia and Africa as part of cultural diplomacy initiatives to promote American values globally.
Photo of Armstrong in 1936. The Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions were recorded between 1925 and 1928 by Louis Armstrong with his Hot Five and Hot Seven groups. . According to the National Recording Registry, [1] "Louis Armstrong was jazz's first great soloist and is among American music's most important and influential figu
Brandon Louis Armstrong, the music giant’s great-great nephew, makes his Broadway debut playing multiple parts in a new musical about the jazz legend’s life. NEW YORK (AP) — The new stage ...
In a way, James Monroe Iglehart feels a special kinship to Louis Armstrong. The Tony winner, 50, steps into the famed jazz singer’s shoes in the new Broadway musical A Wonderful World, which ...
There were two different groups called "Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five", the first recording from 1925 through 1927 and the second in 1928; Armstrong was the only musician in both groups. After 1925, the Hot Five maintained a recording schedule of about three sessions per year.
The same year, Louis Armstrong joined the Fletcher Henderson dance band as featured soloist, leaving in 1925. [35] The original New Orleans style was polyphonic, with theme variation and simultaneous collective improvisation. Armstrong was a master of his hometown style, but by the time he joined Henderson's band, he was already a trailblazer ...
Leo Reisman and His Orchestra was the first to take the song to the pop charts in 1929, followed by several artists including Bill Robinson, Gene Austin and Louis Armstrong. At the intermission of Hot Chocolates at the Hudson Theatre, Armstrong made his Broadway debut playing a trumpet solo on the song. [102]