Louis Armstrong
Noun
Meaning
United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971)
Source: WordNetSynonyms
Examples
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.
My uncle gave me a trumpet, but I loved the Louis Armstrong sound and the Harry James sound and I played by ear and I played always soulful or very direct from the gut.
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.