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Clara Becker on 15 Oct 13Louis Armstrong Louis Daniel Armstrong Born: August 4th 1901 Died: July 6th, 1971 Nicknamed Satchmo or Pops Was a jazz trumpeter and singer from Louisiana, New Orleans Louis had his first jazz recording band led under his name in 1925: Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five This jazz band was as New Orleans jazz band consisting of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone backed by a rhythm section New Orleans jazz style leaned heavily on collective improvisation where the three horns played the lead together the trumpet played the main melody and the clarinet and trombone improvised accompaniments to the melody Louis continued this tradition in the Hot Five but added more trumpet solo passages Because of these solos, Armstrong developed the basics of jazz improvisation and became its founding and most influential exponent In the 1920's (Louis' time of jazz prominence), Louis was considered an inventive cornet and trumpet player. Armstrong was a large influence on jazz and helped to shift the music's focus from collective improvisation to solos. Not only was Armstrong an influential trumpet player but also an influential singer He was known for his gravely and unorthodox voice Armstrong utilized his voice through improvisation by bending lyrics and melody of a song. He was also a very skilled scat singer. SONG INFORMATION: Song: (What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue Date of Release: 1955 Date of Recording: (New York) April 26th, 1955 Album: Satch Plays Fats Musicians: {recording} Louis Armstrong: vocals and trumpet Trummy Young: (trombone) Barney Bigard: clarinet Billy Kyle: piano Arvell Shaw: bass Barrett Deems: drums {live} Louis Armstrong & his All Stars live in Berlin 1965(Bass -- Arvell Shaw(Clarinet -- Eddie Shu(Drums -- Danny Barcelona(Piano -- Billy Kyle(Trombone -- Tyree Glenn(Trumpet -- Louis Armstrong(Vocals -- Louis Armstrong Composed By: Fats Waller, lyrics by: Andy Razaf, and Harry Brooks Thomas "Fats" Waller wrote the song for the Bro
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Clara Becker on 15 Oct 13Thomas "Fats" Waller wrote the song for the Broadway musical Hot Chocolates (1929) which was performed by African Americans The song fits is used in the musical as a lament of a black woman who had lost her husband to a lighter-skinned woman. Louis Armstrong, though, transformed this song into an anthem of protest against racial discrimination. Armstrong's version of the song was later referenced in the novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The song begins with an overture (introduction) during this introduction, the band plays very subtly using soulful variations on the melody The low volume of the introduction adds for a gradual build up of intensity for the song. Armstrong, in the beginning of the song, uses slides, slurs and one glissando (a continuous slide upward or downward between two notes) during his trumpet solo. Young, Kyle, and Bigard support Louis solo (comping between Armstrong and Young) At the end of the main set of vocal choruses, Bigard goes up the scale Racial Discrimination: The song came out 11 months after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka In the months both before and after the release of the song, there were brutal murders of African Americans in Mississippi and other places across America (one particularly famous one: Emmett Till) And in December of that year, Rosa Parks began a new more active phase of the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on the bus. Two years later (In 1957) Armstrong spoke out against President Eisenhower's reluctance to act when African-American teenagers were prohibited from going to the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. SONG FORM: Meter/Time: swing 4/4 times signature A A B B A A Grand Pause Coda 8 bar measures Lyrics Cold empty bed...springs hurt my head Feels like ole ned...wished i was dead What did i do...to be so black and blue Even the mouse...ran from my house They laugh at you...and all that you do What did i do...to be so
