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In 1943, Louis Armstrong was on the road when his wife, Lucille, told him she had bought a house, their first, a simple three-story building sheathed in aluminum siding in Corona, Queens. He was not thrilled. Returning to New York, he asked the cabdriver to idle at the curb while he checked the place out. On tour more than 300 days a year, he wasn't sure he would want to stay. But moments later, wearing his trademark broad smile, he was out on the stoop flagging the driver in for dinner.
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Louis Armstrong was the greatest of all Jazz musicians. Armstrong defined what it was to play Jazz. His amazing technical abilities, the joy and spontaneity, and amazingly quick, inventive musical mind still dominate Jazz to this day. Only Charlie Parker comes close to having as much influence on the history of Jazz as Louis Armstrong did. Like almost all early Jazz musicians, Louis was from New Orleans. He was from a very poor family and was sent to reform school when he was twelve after firing a gun in the air on New Year's Eve.
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Louis Armstrong is synonymous with jazz. One of its first proponents and shapers, his technical superiority, spontaneity, and creativity gave life to the music and influenced everyone that came after him. He grew up in New Orleans where he learned to play cornet in reform school and absorbed all of the music around him in the port city. He played around New Orleans in several bands and joined “King” Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band in Chicago in 1922. In 1925 he recorded his famous Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions.
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By his early thirties, Louis Armstrong had already revolutionized jazz forever. Working with his mentor "King" Oliver in Chicago, Armstrong explored and expanded the sounds of his native New Orleans. He developed his improvisational genius with Fletcher Henderson's orchestra in New York, then returned to Chicago already billed as "The World's Greatest Trumpet Player," and recorded the legendary Hot Fives sessions. By the early 1930s, Armstrong had displayed unprecedented virtuosity, sculpting the jazz solo into a unique art form and invigorating the jazz world with a new rhythmic vision of swing.
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Paragraph 1: Louis Armstrong was born August 4, 1901, in one of the poorest sections of New Orleans. As a young boy he had to work selling newspapers and hard coal from a wagon to help support his mother and younger sister. He even joined a quartet of other young boys and earned a little money singing songs on the street corners for tips from people passing by. One night, when he was 12 years old, he secretly took his stepfather's gun and fired it in the air during a New Year's Eve celebration. He was promptly arrested and sent to a reform school for boys. There he was taught to play the cornet and joined the marching band, and began leading the parades.
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Louis Armstrong (1900-1971) was born in New Orleans. his father left home when Louis was only five and his mother worked as a domestic to keep the family together. At age twelve, Louise was arrested for firing a gun as part of a New Year's celebration. As a result, he was sent to the Colored Waifs' Home. It was there that he came under the influence of Peter Davis, who taught him to play the cornet and bugle. A year later, Louis was released but did little to continue his music until he was exposed to Joe "King" Oliver.
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