Louis Armstrong was an American trumpeter, singer and bandleader from New Orleans whose improvisational virtuosity and expressive vocal style shaped the course of jazz as it grew from a regional idiom into a widely popular art form. His recordings across the 1920s established the soloist as jazz's central figure, and his distinctive singing remained a fixture of popular music through the middle of the twentieth century.
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Louis Armstrong used call and response phrasing rooted in early jazz and blues tradition.
Armstrong's 1967 recording is the song's defining and most closely associated performance.
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Source The New Grove Dictionary of Music and MusiciansStanley Sadie, editor (successive editions)
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Source The New Grove Dictionary of Music and MusiciansStanley Sadie, editor (successive editions)
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1. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Stanley Sadie, editor (successive editions), Oxford University Press- entry: Armstrong, Louis
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His recordings across the 1920s established the soloist as jazz's central figure, and his distinctive singing remained a fixture of popular music through the middle of the twentieth century.
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