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1928 HITS ARCHIVE: West End Blues - Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five

1 posted on 06/30/2023 2:08:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway

To: nickcarraway

A true masterpiece. I love that cut.

2 posted on 06/30/2023 2:12:58 PM PDT by CrosscutSaw

To: nickcarraway

From High Socety (1956):

"Now You Has Jazz"

3 posted on 06/30/2023 2:25:20 PM PDT by twister881

To: nickcarraway

Music was soo good back then.

4 posted on 06/30/2023 2:29:56 PM PDT by dragonblustar (They have conquered Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony….. Revelation 12:11)

To: nickcarraway

The inventor of the coherent solo. I frankly don’t enjoy much of Armstrongs music, but he was without question the originator of the one-instrument, “tell a story” solo vs the “everyone, free for all” format of prior dixieland music.

5 posted on 06/30/2023 2:38:40 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)

To: nickcarraway

Thanks for the informative article.
Armstrong was a national treasure.

Jazz was heading through rough times from the start.
This article has references to the possible addition of jazz to things the US should ban along with booze:
“... moral watchdogs were quick to attack jazz as what one newspaper described as “a low streak in man’s tastes that has not yet come out in civilization’s wash.”

“This thing called jazz is positively one of the most awful and most inexcusable of musical sins ever committed against the face of the people,” said Musical America in 1920.
In 1921, Anne Shaw Faulkner’s notorious cover feature ‘Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation?’ in Ladies Home Journal berated jazz on racial and political grounds, claiming the music was “the accompaniment of the voodoo dancer, stimulating the half-crazed barbarian to the vilest deeds,” and represented the “Bolshevik element… striving for expression in music.”

From:
https://www.jazzwise.com/features/article/the-concert-that-saved-jazz-paul-whiteman-and-the-1920s-jazz-age-rage

6 posted on 06/30/2023 2:41:59 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)

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7 posted on 06/30/2023 2:43:04 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Faux News: "We distort, you deride")

To: nickcarraway

I’m partial to his “Muskrat Ramble”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS5GKIAsyik

Muskrat Ramble - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five (1926)

8 posted on 06/30/2023 2:44:43 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)

To: nickcarraway

Wow? Jazz with all the notes! Nothing left to the imagination. It’s all there. Beautiful

10 posted on 06/30/2023 2:51:11 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )

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11 posted on 06/30/2023 2:51:17 PM PDT by linMcHlp

To: nickcarraway

This is when modern jazz was born;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MCGweQ8Oso

13 posted on 06/30/2023 3:42:32 PM PDT by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)

To: nickcarraway

Louis Armstrong on "What's My Line," March 22, 1964:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PM5Xk9Hxxo

He appears as the "Mystery Guest" at about 16:00. The crowd obviously loves him.

14 posted on 06/30/2023 4:42:53 PM PDT by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)

To: nickcarraway

So many imagine Louis singing a Wonderful World, or Hello Dolly.

Far two few have even hear the tone of his early trumpet work.

The finest trumpet player in history, so far.

15 posted on 06/30/2023 5:06:54 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)

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