Coleção Folha Clássicos do Jazz, Vol. 3 - Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 - July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Sachimo and Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer. Coming to prominence in the 20s as an innovative cornet and trumpet virtuoso, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers. With his distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly skilled at scat singing, or wordless vocalizing. Renowned for his charismatic stage presence, Armstrong's influence extended well beyond jazz, and by the end of his career in the '60s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general: critic Steve Leggett describes Armstrong as "perhaps the most important American musician of the 20th century.Armstrong often stated in public interviews that he was born on July 4, 1900 (Independence Day in the USA), a date that has been noted in many biographies. Although he died in 1971, it wasn't until the mid-1980s that his true birth date of August 4, 1901 was discovered through the examination of baptismal records. He was recorded as an out-of-wedlock black child. Armstrong was born into a very poor family in New Orleans, Louisiana, the grandson of slaves. He spent his youth in poverty in a rough neighborhood of Uptown New Orleans, known as "Back of Town", as his father, William Armstrong (1881-1922), abandoned the family when Louis was an infant, and took up with another woman. His mother, Mayann Armstrong (1886-1942), then left Louis and his younger sister Beatrice Armstrong Collins (1903-1987) in the care of his grandmother, Josephine Armstrong and at times, his Uncle Isaac. At five, he moved back to live with his mother and her relatives, and saw his father only in parades. He attended the Fisk School for Boys where he likely had his first exposure to Creole music. He brought in a little money as a paperboy and also by finding discarded food and selling it to restaurants but it wasn't enough to keep his mother from prostitution. He hung out in dance halls, particularly the "Funky Butt," which was the closest to his home, where he observed everything from licentious dancing to the quadrille. He hauled coal to Storyville, the famed red-light district, and listened to the bands playing in the brothels and dance halls, especially Pete Lala's where Joe "King" Oliver performed and other famous musicians would drop in to jam.
Armstrong grew up at the bottom of the social ladder, in a highly segregated city, but one which lived in a constant fervor of music, which was generally called "ragtime", and not yet "jazz". Despite the hard early days, Armstrong seldom looked back at his youth as the worst of times but instead drew inspiration from it, "Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine—I look right in the heart of good old New Orleans...It has given me something to live for." After dropping out of the Fisk School at eleven, Armstrong joined a quartet of boys in similar straits as he, and they sang in the streets for money. He also started to get into trouble. Cornet player Bunk Johnson said he taught Armstrong (then 11) to play by ear at Dago Tony's Tonk in New Orleans, although in his later years Armstrong gave the credit to Oliver. His first cornet was bought with money loaned to him by the Karnofskys, a Russian-Jewish immigrant family who had a junk hauling business and gave him odd jobs. To express gratitude towards the Karnofskys, who took him in as almost a family member, and fed and nurtured him, Armstrong wore a Star of David pendant for the rest of his life....more >>> see Wikipedia link..
Tracks
1. Perdido Street Blues
2. After You've Gone
3. Basin Street Blues
4. Black and Blue
5. St. Louis Blues
6. When the Saints Go Marchin In
7. Mack the Knife
8. High Society Calypso
9. La Vie en Rose
10. What a Wonderful World
Details
.. Year: 2007
.. Label: Folha de São Paulo
.. Country: U.S.A.
.. Bitrate: VBR
.. Ripped: EAC 9.0
.. Genre: Jazz/Blues
.. Home-Page: www.redhotjazz.com/louie.html (Biography)
.. Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong
.. Satchmo.net: The Official Site of the Louis Armstrong House
.. Legacy Records: www.louis-armstrong.net/
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