Writer and researcher Ricky Riccardi of the Louis Armstrong House Museum has said, вЂњ There wouldnвЂ™t be a Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, Beatles, Chuck Berry, Louis Jordan or Ray Charles without Louis Armstrong. Crossing into popular culture as the decades wore on, Armstrong appeared in a number of Hollywood movies, including High Society and Pennies From Heaven, both with Bing Crosby, and Hello, Dolly with Barbra Streisand.

Over his long career Armstrong worked with many, many jazz and blues greats like Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Alberta Hunter, Ma Rainey, Earl вЂFathaвЂ™ Hines and Nat King Cole. Louis Blues to 1967вЂ™s What a Wonderful World. Armstrong is the only musician to have recorded hits across five decades his roster of Grammy-winners ranging from 1925вЂ™s St. With the rhythmic swing of his horn playing and his free-wheeling vocal style he helped take jazz from a music of collective improvisation to one of virtuoso solos, developing with his distinctive, gravelly voice the scat singing that eventually wound its way into todayвЂ™s rap. The influence of Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) on the quintessentially American idiom of jazz was enormous. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.вЂќ вЂњ The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

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