Louis Armstrong
Format:
Music Concert
Distributed By:
Planet Blue Pictures US
About:
If there is a mythical father of jazz as we know it, then trumpeter, singer, bandleader, Louis (Pops; Satchmo; Dippermouth; Satch; Dipper; Papa Dip) Armstrong best fits the description. Though he was not the first jazz trumpet player, others such as his own mentor Joe "King" Oliver preceded him in that regard, Louis is the most influential jazz trumpeter of all-time. His trumpet virtuosity was peerless and he set the tone early on for all jazz trumpet players who followed, regardless of their stylistic proclivities. The trumpet is a signature instrument in jazz largely because of Louis Armstrong. The instrument's lineage as a powerful jazz clarion, stretching forward from Louis to Bix Beiderbecke, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Don Cherry, Woody Shaw, Jon Faddis, Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, and Nicholas Payton got its wings from Armstrong's example. As Miles Davis was heard to say, there ought to be a time when every jazz musician kneels down and says a prayer of thanks for Louis Armstrong.
