Louis Armstrong
about the discography
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SIDEMAN
1923-25
HOT 5 & 7
1925-28
STARDOM
1929-32
THE 30'S
1932-42
WAR YEARS
1942-46
ALL-STARS
1942-56
PURE GOLD
1956-63
TWILIGHT
1963-71
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The Louis Armstrong Discography
Most historians agree; when it comes to influential musicians in this century, one name stands above the rest. Not Gershwin or Porter, Lennon or Presley. It is, indeed, Louis Armstrong who blasted the music of the world out of a tired tradition of classic orchestra and mundane Tin Pan Alley pop into the exciting era of hot jazz and swing. Not single-handedly, admittedly; but Armstrong set standards of originality and spontaneity that are yet to be surpassed.
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