Today’s dTunes post is dedicated to a very unique musician, not only is he, arguably, one of the founders of jazz, implementing the focus on individual performers rather than groups, incredibly, his style has echoed throughout the annals of music history and can still be felt just as strong today, this post is about the one and only Louis Armstrong.



Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet virtuoso, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers. With his distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly skilled at scat singing, or wordless vocalizing. Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and deep, instantly recognizable voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extended well beyond jazz, and by the end of his career in the '60s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general: critic Steve Leggett describes Armstrong as "perhaps the most important American musician of the 20th century."

Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World


Louis Armstrong - When The Saints Go Marching In


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