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While playing in Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Armstrong met Lillian Hardin, a piano player and arranger for the band. In February of 1924 they were married. Lil was a very intelligent and ambitious woman who felt that Louis was wasting himself playing in Oliver's band...
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By the end of 1924 she pressured Armstrong to reluctantly leave his mentor's band. He briefly worked with Ollie Powers' Harmony Syncopators before he moved to New York to play in Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra for 13 months. During that time he also did dozens of recording sessions with numerous Blues singers, including Bessie Smith's 1925 classic recording of "St...
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Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was born on August 4th 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Mayanne and William Armstrong. Louis had many great accomplishments throughout his life...	2 / 437
Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was born August 4th 1901 in New Orleans. He grew up in a very poor part of New Orleans and he led a normal boys life up until he was 13...	2 / 286
louis armstrong Louis Armstrong was born and raised in the poorest part of the New Orleans. He was the first son of Mary Albert and William Armstrong on August 4, 1901 (Alden 1)...	3 / 686
Louis Armstrong When Louis was in third grade, he dropped out of school and stopped working for the Karnofskys. He sang on the streets to get money and later formed a band...	2 / 431
Louis Armstrong Musicians during the Harlem Renaissance created a style and movement that simply took Americans by storm. Musicians such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong have inspired others all over the country...	1 / 219
louis armstrong -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIDEMAN 1923-25 HOT 5 & 7 1925-28 STARDOM 1929-32 THE 30'S 1932-42 WAR YEARS 1942-46 ALL-STARS 1942-56 PURE GOLD 1956-63 TWILIGHT 1963-71 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evolution of the All-Stars feedback credit where it's due other links to louis (c) 1999 scott johnson The Louis Armstrong Discography Most historians agree; when it comes to influential musicians in this century, one name stands above the rest...	2 / 370
Louis Armstrong- An Extravagant Life What is jazz? According to Merriam Webster's Dictionary, jazz is American music developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate distortions of pitch and timbre...	6 / 1409