Good Black Information: The Each day Drop – GBN Each day Drop for April 30, 2022: Louis Armstrong, Architect of Jazz

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Hey, that is Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of goodblacknews.org, right here to share with you a day by day drop of Good Black Information for Saturday, April thirtieth, 2022, primarily based on the “A Yr of Good Black Information Web page-A-Day Calendar” revealed by Workman Publishing.

At present, we’d like to shut out #JazzAppreciationMonth, with a brief tribute to a major architect of the sound, the legendary New Orleans son, Louis Armstrong:

[“St. Louis Blues” by Louis Armstrong]

“No him, no me,” is how jazz innovator Dizzy Gillespie described the affect of musician Louis Armstrong. Broadly believed to be the primary nice jazz soloist, Armstrong’s improvisations on the cornet and trumpet influenced each jazz musician after him and elevated the musical fashion to a brand new, thrilling commonplace.

Born in August of

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