Louis Armstrong — the legendary musicians. Alexandra Kyabisheva, 8 ''A'' class School 6
The legendary Louis Daniel Armstrong was born on the 4 th August 1901, in New Orleans and went on to becomeone of the greatest musicians in the history of jazz.
Louis Armstrong taught himself to play an old trumpet as a young boy and left school at the age of eleven, only to be caught up in some trouble that caused him to be sent to a reform school for 10 years. During his time at the reform school, he studied music and learned to play cornet and bugle, and even became the leader of the school band.
After his release on June 16, 1914, he took on various odd jobs. Often listening to bands and he made friends one day, with his favourite Joe ''King'' Oliver, who helped and in fluenced him on the cornet and trumpet.
After moving to Chicago in August 1922 to join ''King Oliver Creole Jazz Band'', he made his recording debut with the group in February 1923, and a year later married the pianist Lillian Harden who also worked with Oliver's band. On her advice, he moved to New York to join Fletcher Hendersons band, where he stayed for about a year before returning to Chicago in November 1925 to join his wife's group ''The Dreamland Syncopators''.
In April 1927 he had his first vocal recording chart hit with ''Big Butter and Egg Man'' a duet with May Alix. February 1930 he toured with the Louis Russell orchestra before taking a residensy at Sebastian's Cotton Club in Los Angeles for the next ten mounths. In July 1932 he left the USA to tour in England soon after spent several years on the road in Europe touring in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Holland, returning home only to tour coast to coast.
In 1935 Armstrong was back in the USA, where he hired Joe Claser to be his manager. Taking care of the business side of things, Claser gave Armstrong the freedom he needed to concentrate on his music. In 1947 Armstrong broke up his big band put together a small group called the ''All Stars'', starting off in February 1948 for his first European tour since 1935.
Recording highlights during the 1950's included the tribute to Fats Waller ''Satch plays Fats'' in 1955 and a series of recordings with Ella Fitzgerald begginning with ''Ella and Louis'' in 1956.
In 1969 Armstrong was featured in a duet with Barbara Streisand for the title song of the film ''Hello, Dolly!''
From the mid sixties onwards, Armstrong's health began to suffer and although he was hospitalised several times during the last three years of his life, he continued to play and record. On July 6 th 1971 themost famous musician in jazz history died in his sleep at his home in Queens, New York and will be remembered by so many, for so much and for so many reasons, that only ''Thank you Satchmo!'' seems appropriate.
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