Louis Daniel Armstrong, «Satchmo») (on August, 4th 1901- on July, 6th 1971) -the American jazz musician. Armstrong precisely didn't know day of the birth and has chosen it on July, 4th - an Independence Day of the USA. Subsequently exact date of its birth has been established by biographers.

The Afroamerikan jazz musician, the trumpeter, the singer. Armstrong often name «the father of a jazz». Was born in New Orleans, whence in 1922 has gone to play Chicago in Joe Olivera's orchestra. The Most considerable and revolutionary records are made by Armstrong in 1927 and 1928 and are known as «Louis Armstrong and His Hot Fives». These records became the sample for coming «an era of a swing». Up to the end 1940 Armstrong remained the improvisator who had the greatest quantity of imitators among jazz musicians.

Armstrong's childhood, as well as the childhood of many other black geniuses of a jazz, was hard. He never knew the father, and its mother-servants didn't give it attention. Lui as named it on Creole manners, the grandmother still remembering times of slavery brought up. The boy since the childhood worked, carried coal, sang for pennies at crossroads.

It has received the first music education in penal institution for color teenagers where has got for shooting from a toy pistol in the street in New year. Having released, the former leader of a prison wind band quickly enough has found work. In 18 years it took in the ensemble rather authoritative Kid Ori. But Lui Armstrong considered as the present teacher Joe of "King" Olivera. Hide review