Career

Louis armstrong was an amazing influence on jazz. Armstrong pushed the jazz scene more toward solo performances rather then collective improvisations. Louis was very well known having almost a one of a kind voice which was veery deep and scratchy. He was a great scat singer and one of the first to record it. Scat is singing that replaces words with nonsense syllables and random vocables.

Armstrong was said to have lived like a king in Chicago with his own apartment and private bath. Shortly after living in Chicago in 1924 he was invited to go to New York and perform in the Fletcher Hendeerson Orchestra. While doing so he had to switch from playing the cornet to playing the trumpet in order to blend better with the other musicians in his section. In 1925 he moved back to New York mostly because his wife wanted to make him more famous and increase his income.



In 1930 Armstrong moved to Los Angeles looking for new gigs. He played in the cotton club in Los Angeles with Lionel Hampton on the drums. In 1931 Armstrong portrayed his first acting role in a movie titled "//Ex-Flame."// He was also convicted of using marijuana but got off easy that time. In late 1931 he returned to Chicago to to continue playing trumpet in other bands.