1. LOUIS ARMSTONG Blues and jazz pioneer

2. JAZZ & BLUES The blues was intensely personal, and was an expression and reflection of the individual facing hardships of an often-indifferent world. This lament had become an entertainment, and soon written to be sold and copied. Most blues singers were considered out-casts and rejects even with in the black community. As blues became more popular the characteristics of the genre began to change rapidly. The blues was a very open style for improvising and singing as the mood strikes the musician. In the early 1920s blues and jazz were developing around the sometime in different areas and were often seen to be the same thing, though the background roots are distinct and strong.

3. THE BEGINNING A trumpeter, bandleader, singer, soloist, film star and comedian named Louis Armstrong was born August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Considered one of the most influential artists in jazz history. At age 11 Louis Armstrong shot a gun in the air during a New Years Eve celebration and was arrested on the spot then sent to a young boys home where he picked up the bugle cornet, learned how to read music and realized that was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.

4. A BLOOMING CAREER  Once Armstrong began earning a reputation as a fine blues player, one of the greatest cornet players in town, Joe "King" Oliver, began acting as a mentor to the young Armstrong, showing him pointers on the horn and occasionally using him as a sub.  Influencing countless musicians as he came to prominence in the 1920’s, From 1925-1928 Louis was in a very successful band that really expressed the new Orleans sound, the band was know as the hot 5 and the hot 7.

5. SETTING THE STANDARDS  With his daring trumpet style and unique vocals Louis Armstrong’s charismatic stage act Created and set standards for what jazz and popular music performance was becoming.

6. THE HOT 5

7. MUSICAL INFLUENCES  As a solo artist, Armstrong’s scatting was something he had obviously been doing before it became “apart” of jazz. Armstrong changed jazz with his ear for popular music and his sense of swing his scatting and vocal improvising you can trace those characteristics back to him after the 1920’s.  In 1926 after recording the “heebie jeebies” he had become the most popular jazz musician in America. Incorporating scatting into the genre this was only one of the ways he influenced jazz.

8. SOCIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES  Louis Armstrong’s attitude, presence and popularity allowed for him to influence the United States sociologically. He was the First African American to have a contract refusing to Perform at a hotel that would not allow him to stay there. Constantly breaking down many barriers through his music in the 1930s.  In 1937 he became the first African American to host a sponsored national radio broadcast. Armstrong was The Fist African American star to get featured in Hollywood films and the First jazz musician to ever be on the cover of TIME magazine.

10. LISTENING'S  Song examples:  “La vie en rose” multi cultural, popular music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmGt2U-xTE  “hibbie jeebies” scatting, improv, swing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IJzYAda1wA

11. END OF CAREER  Performed world wide until the day he passed aware due to a heart attack while at his home in Queens, New York, on July 6, 1971.  Through the 1950-1960 he toured around the world with thousands of recording under his belt. Setting the charts for what “is” popular jazz and blues.

13. WORKS CITED  Thomas, Margaret E. "Conlon Nancarrow, "Hot" Jazz, And The Principle Of Collective Improvisation." Music Theory Online 20.1 (2014): 1-11. Academic Search Premier. Web. 17 Nov. 2014  BOYD RAEBURN, BRUCE. "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead": Louis Armstrong's Smack Down With White Authority And His First Films, 1930-1932." Southern Quarterly 51.1/2 (2013): 58-72. Academic Search Premier. Web. 17 Nov. 2014.  Lorenzo Candelaria & Daniel Kingman. “American Music, A Panorama, fifth concise edition chapter 8-9 page 104-120, Print. 17 NO\ov.2014.