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Louis Armstrong The King Of Jazz

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Jazz is the type of music with an African-American origin that started in the early 20th century with syncopated beats and a regular, forceful rhythmic pattern. Jazz musicians often improvised solos of music on the spot with the use of pianos, drums, saxophones, clarinets and trumpets. These snazzy tunes ran through the veins of women and their dance partners and gave way to a feeling of freedom, or so it seemed. Jazz spans an era ranging from ragtime and Latin dances to present day and has proven to be difficult to define.

A man named Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong(1901-1971) helped pave the way for exploration in American Jazz music style music. Armstrong is said to be the “King of Jazz” that started with the shooting of a gun in
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