Record #:

23426

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans in 1901. Armstrong sang on the streets as a child and was influenced by the jazz he heard there. He taught himself to play the cornet and began playing in the local clubs. In 1922, he joined Joe \"King\" Oliver's band in Chicago, which started his recording career. Armstrong then started his own band, the Hot Seven (originally the Hot Five). He married in 1942 and bought a house in Queens, New York. He averaged three hundred concerts a year, appeared in thirty films, and wrote two autobiographies. Armstrong was nicknamed \"Satchmo,\" short for Satchelmouth, which was a joke about the size of his mouth. On November 3, 1959, \"Satchmo\" came to Greenville, and performed in the Raynor - Forbes Tobacco Warehouse with more than 1,000 persons attending.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Oct 26-Nov 8 2005, p6-7

Subject(s):

Jazz musicians