Louis Armstrong

April 13th, 2009

Contained within this essay is the opinionated analysis of two of the greatest contributors to music in America and Modern Jazz: Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. Both were great performers and colleagues. In the analysis an album from each artist was selected: Billie Holiday’s “Complete Decca Recordings” and Louis Armstrong’s famed “What A Wonderful World.” Each of them has quite a unique and distinguished vocal style. Armstrong, though, also plays an incredible trumpet, which had brought him to fame several decades ago.
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