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Louis Armstrong was one of the most influential figures in jazz with a career spanning five decades (1920s to the 1960s). The career starts with playing in brass bands and on riverboats in New Orleans, learning to read music and being one of the first musician to perform extended trumpet solos, moving to Chicago to play in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, went to New York City to play with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, returning to Chicago to form his own group as Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five. Back in NY, he emerged as a vocalist with his scat singing style, enriched by matchless experience as a trumpet soloist. He kept touring well into his '60s, playing in Africa, Europe, and Asia, got a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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