Louis Armstrong
Musician, trumpeter, singer
1901–1971, born in New Orleans, Louisiana
Moved to NYC Wikipedia
See Louis Armstrong on the map
Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Louis Armstrong to Corona, Queens. A tie, not always an origin
On the map at Louis Armstrong House
Louis Armstrong House, Queens: His home from 1943 until his death in 1971. It is now a museum.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Places
- Carnegie Hall
- The Town Hall
- The Cotton Club
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- Brooklyn Academy of Music
- Louis Armstrong Place, Honorary street
Listen and read
Music spots
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Venue
Carnegie Hall
1891Opened in 1891. By the 1900s Sergei Rachmaninoff was among those staging or performing their own music here, the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini frequently recorded in the Main Hall, and Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis are among the many jazz performers who have played here, per Wikipedia.
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The Town Hall
1921Opened in 1921 as a lecture hall, it became one of the city’s top music venues. Sergei Rachmaninoff appeared in the 1931–32 season of its Endowment Series and Lily Pons in 1938, and a Louis Armstrong concert here in 1947 led to the formation of Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, per Wikipedia.
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The Cotton Club (Harlem)
1923–1936The Cotton Club stood on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, before it moved to Broadway. Black people at first could not get in, though it featured many of the most popular Black entertainers of the era; Lena Horne began here as a chorus girl at sixteen, per Wikipedia. Louis Armstrong played the Harlem club often, per Clio.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music
1956–1981Its “Jazz at the Academy” series brought Count Basie and Louis Armstrong to the Opera House stage from 1956, and a late-1960s series featured Thelonious Monk and Tito Puente, per BAM's archivist.
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