excerpt from 'Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It' pp. 47 (169 words)

excerpt from 'Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It' pp. 47 (169 words)

part of

Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It

original language

urn:iso:std:iso:639:ed-3:eng

in pages

47

type

text excerpt

encoded value

Louis [Armstrong] sings just like he plays. I think Louis proves the idea and theory which holds that if you can't sing it you can't play it. When I'm improvising, I'm singing in my mind. I sing what I feel and then try to reproduce it on the horn. Then Louis' tone is so big and he fills all those notes--there is no splitting them when he plays [trumpet]. There's nothing freakish about Louis' horn. He fingers what he wants to play, and there are no accidents in the notes he brings out. You know, it's a pleasure just to hear Louis tune up. Why, just warming up he blows such a variety of things that it is a wonder to the ears, and a real pleasure. Louis set the pace for the whole world for trumpet players. Joe [Oliver] and Freddie [Keppard] did their bits but they never could touch Louis. God knows, both of them were good but, what the heck, man, they never could touch Louis.

appears in search results as

excerpt from 'Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It' pp. 47 (169 words)

1433676980681:

reported in source

1433676980681

documented in
Page data computed in 305 ms with 1,617,512 bytes allocated and 35 SPARQL queries executed.