USA HISTORY

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 was the most important and influential musician in jazz history. Although he is often thought of by the general public as a lovable, clowning personality, a gravel-voiced singer who played simple but dramatic trumpet in a New Orleans-styled Dixieland setting, Armstrong himself was so much more.

Detailed explanation-3: -Armstrong created a loose, free, informal, virile and swinging vocal style that influenced Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and every great jazz and pop singer that came after him. Even Bing Crosby, who was also developing a new vocal style in the late 1920s, found inspiration in Armstrong’s singing.

Detailed explanation-4: -Inspired by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie found that her deep, soulful voice was ideally suited to the new blues music. She quickly became a favorite entertainer on the theater circuit. In 1923, Columbia Records issued her first recording, Down-Hearted Blues, which was a huge success.