Jazz vinyl from Louis Armstrong - Satchmo’s golden favorites

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Somehow, Armstrong manages the almost impossible feat of continuing to provide a swinging, forceful lead while actually holding the excessive zeal of his rhythm section in check. What Armstrong brought to small-group jazz was a sense of swing ; a relaxed, yet even more dramatic and original way of interpreting a melody than that of trumpeters like Keppard and King Oliver.

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Early jazz - Chicago and Joe King Oliver

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Prior to 1920,  the jazz development was taking place in many parts of the United States. However, as the new decade began, for a few years the main center in which the music moved forward became the lakeside city of Chicago.
About fifty thousand African Americans from the Southern states arrived in Chicago in the years [...]

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