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.
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I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.
I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time.
Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.
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