It’s hard to imagine how jazz would have developed from the 1920s to the 1970s without Louis Armstrong. His playing and his vocals were foundations to what followed.
He is a true jazz legend.
But he’s is, perhaps, underappreciated by modern fans of jazz because of developments in the last decade of his life when his single, Hello Dolly, knocked The Beatles off the top of the charts. He’d become a caricature.
Was his best time really back in the 1920s when he played with his Hot Five and Hot Seven bands?
That may have been when he as most innovative but he was making fine music in the 1940s and 1950s.
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