MUSC 2140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Bix Beiderbecke, Coleman Hawkins, Carroll Dickerson
2 Feb 2014
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Chapter 6- louis armstrong and the first great soloists. He is the only musician in the history of western to dramatically influence instrumentalists and singers. Despite growing up in poverty and racial segregation, he was able to overcome it all and influence not only musicians but political and cultural stereotypes. Before armstrong jazz was generally perceived as urban folk music. He established the blues scale and blues feeling when many musicians thought blues would die out. Armstrong showed that improvisation could be just as well done as written music, but one had to make their instrument an extension of themselves before they could play as well as him. Before him scat singing barely existed, and he mastered it as well as making it popular. Armstrong showed that pop music could be combined with jazz it make it even better. His greatest contribution was perhaps to introduce swing.
