When Louis Armstrong died on July 6, 1971, the tens of millions of people all over the world who mourned him remembered him as an endearing child of nature who became famous singing improbable tunes like “Hello, Dolly” and “Blueberry Hill” in a voice choked with gravel. He was the cheerful, eager-to-please entertainer who mugged his way through his songs, talked a little comic jive talk, and occasionally played the trumpet, presenting a stage personality uncomfortably close to the lovable clown. What only a tiny fraction of those people knew and would still be astonished to realize was that Louis Armstrong was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century music. Indeed, a case can be made for the thesis that he was the most important of them all, for almost single-handedly he remodeled jazz and, as a consequence, had a critical effect on the kinds of music that came out of it. [download]
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