Louis Armstrong Research Paper

Armstrong, Louis. Muskrat Ramble [CDA 10524]
Beiderbecke, Leon (Bix) & Frankie Trumbauer. Clarinet Marmalade [CDA 6566]
Beiderbecke, Leon (Bix). In A Mist [CDA 6566]
Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, Changes [CDA 3226]
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, prf. Dippermouth blues [LP9856]
Lewis, Meade "Lux" Honky Tonk Train Blues
Louis Armstrong, prf. West End Blues [CDA 13024]
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, prf. Struttin' with some barbeque [LP 9856]
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven, prf. Potato Head Blues [CDA 13024]
Morganfield, McKinley (Muddy Waters) Got My Mojo Working [CDA 100037 v.7]
Morton, Ferdinand (Jelly Roll). Trumpet: King Oliver King Porter [CDA 7483]
Original Dixieland Jazz Band, prf. Livery Stable Blues [CDA 13024]
ODJB: a group of white New Orleans musicians
1917 first jazz(ODJB) recording
Segregation between bands. Integration happened eventually, but what slowed that is the society outside of the music world.
Joe King Oliver’s Creole jazz band: first recording 1923. At that time Louis Armstrong was part of the band
Chicago scene: People from New Orleans went to Chicago to perform jazz.
Chicago school: different groups of musicians that helped from Chicago’s style of jazz 2 groups: black jazz musicians and white jazz musicians from New Orleans. 3rd group: indigenous people (local Chicago people) learning from New Orleans people
Austin High gang

Terms:
Jazz age (=early jazz) includes: new Orleans jazz + Chicago jazz
Rag time jazz/ Traditional jazz/ Dixieland jazz/ gut bucket and barrel house music all describe the jazz age music.

Jazz piano: Many of the great jazz pianists were in the eastern cities: New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia.
Jazz piano was unaccompanied when it was first involved.
Early jazz piano styles evolved almost directly from
Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
 trumpet player/ vocalist/ band leader/ sometimes composer/ all-around entertainer
 Didn’t have valid birth records. (stated that his birthday was July 4th 1900)
 nicknames: The father of jazz/ pops/ satchmo/ Dippermouth
innovative recordings: mid-late 1920s,
Melodic phrasing influenced swing era.
leading two relatively similar groups: Louis Armstrong and his hot five/ Louis Armstrong and his hot seven (relocated to Chicago, band includes his musician friends from New Orleans Trombone: Kid Ory/ Clarinet: Johnny Dodds/ Piano: lil’ Armstrong/ Banjo: Johnny St. Cyr)
 most imitated improviser after 1930s (First greatest solo improviser in Jazz history)
 Multiple improvisers were needed to keep the audience engaged, but Louis Armstrong’s melodies were enough to captivate his audience: He proved that a single improviser can be enough in a band.
 help developed the 8th note swing pattern
 extended the expected range (lowest to highest note) of the trumpet
 Often improvise a melody-like line that was so compatible to chord changes that you think it’s the original melody of the song.
As a vocalist, he was one of the first musicians who wouldn’t sing a melody straight, he also influenced many vocalists later