Louis Armstrong “King of Jazz”

Louis Armstrong known also as «Sachmo» (sachmo - satchel mouth), the great American musician, one of pillars a jazz-culture, was born on August, 4th, 1901 in New Orleans, state of Louisiana, the USA.
Its family lived in awful poverty. In 12 years Armstrong have sent in prison for minors for fine street an offence. However there Louis has learned to play on сlarinet.

Highly presented Louis in the childhood could be met often in streets of native New Orleans. It, in the company of contempoparies, walked on city centre, singing known songs. Becoming more senior, Armstrong has started to play orchestras which acted by walking steamships and quayes Mississippi. Among them there was Kid Ori's jazz-gangs in which Louis worked in 1919. However Louis was not going to lead all life in a local orchestra. The matter is that it had a dream - to work for Olivera King who supervised over own orchestra in Chicago.

In 1924 Armstrong married pianist Lilliane Hardin, and they have moved to New York for work in Fletcher Henderson's orchestra.
A number of records which it has made in 1925-1928 with orchestras Hot Five or Hot Seven, differed from the previous jazz works as that in them solo parties not a clarnet, a trombone and a pipe have been brightly expressed. Then there were such products, as « Savoy Blues » and « West End Blues».

Despite of numerous changes in a jazz, occured since times of a youth of Armstrong, it always remained is true to classical norms of style. Owing to own talent, masterly skill and original compositions. Louis Armstrong has managed to inform the Jazz up to public who earlier at all did not know about existence of such style in music. To one of Armstrong's basic innovations became the wide popularization of rhythmic improvisations known as jazz swing feeling.