LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Jazz Musician
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Detailed explanation-1: -Louis Armstrong is rightly celebrated as a master jazz trumpeter, but his distinctive gravelly-voiced singing also had a huge influence on later artists. His vocal improvisations and the powerful feeling of swing that he brought to everything he sang loosened up the more formal style of his contemporaries.
Detailed explanation-2: -Louis Armstrong He was arguably the first major jazz star, and – with his rhythmically sophisticated, operatic style – remains the greatest jazz musician of all time according to many.
Detailed explanation-3: -Historians generally point to Buddy Bolden, a cornet player, as the first jazz musician.
Detailed explanation-4: -Vital and productive from the 1920s to the 1960s, Louis Armstrong provided jazz with its quantum leap forward-his Hot Five and Hot Seven group recordings for the OKeh Records label between 1925 and 1928.