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How Louis Armstrong invented the modern pop star
Switched on Pop
The Jazz of Charlie Armstrong
This solo and others that he recorded in the mid-1920s set a new template for jazz musicians. The playing is getting virtuosic here, it feels. He actually brags about it a little bit on a recording called Big Butter and Eggman. But this recording also tunes us into another key aspect of Armstrong's sound: scat singing.
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