There are always names that come to mind when you are watching jazz all year long; Louis Armstrong can be considered an influence for all jazz musicians chasing him. Regardless of how many instruments you play, how long you play will be affected. "The trumpet of Louis Armstrong talks about the possibilities that democratic individuals can get." Although this sentence is not true, it still says Louis Armstrong is a powerful artist .
July 4, 2000 • Guest: CLARK TERRY * Jazz musician / band leader, DAN MORGENSTERN * LAURENCE BERGREEN who plays trumpet and rogue, Director of Jazz Institute at Rutgers University * Author, Louis Armstrong: Extremely luxurious life (Broadway) Books, 1997) Louis Armstrong is known as the greatest musician of this century. Some people may not agree, but there is one sure thing. After Rui, no one is playing or singing pop music in the same way. Miles Davis once said that he can not even play contemporary music in trumpet where Rui is not playing. Armstrong may not have a classical singing voice, but his own way of making a melody influenced pop singer's inspiration; Frank Sinatra changed Louis Armstrong into pop art songs as art I said that. July 4th is Armstrong's traditional birthday celebration day, so on this Independence Day, Americans celebrate centuries of pop music.
Jazz Idol Louis Armstrong not only left a lot of music records, but also recorded hundreds of personal conversations on his tape. These recordings are the foundation of a new career of Terry Teachout's legendary musician Pops: Louis Armstrong. Teachout recently talked to the moderator Neal Conan about his new book. Below, he offers five of his favorite musical moments in Armstrong's album. "Since then, no one can play like this and I can not play like this at the moment," he told the interviewer when he recorded the album. "My oldest record can not touch it. If they say" Do you like the most? "I like them all because none of them makes bad records. "