Jazz

Louis Armstrong was the greatest of all Jazz musicians. Armstrong defined what it was to play Jazz.Like almost all early Jazz musicians, Louis was from New Orleans. By 1917 he played in an Oliver inspired group at dive bars in New Orleans' Storyville section. The New Orleans style of music took the town by storm and soon many other bands from down south made their way Chicago to north.While playing in Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Armstrong met Lillian Hardin, a piano player and arranger for the band.