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- OK, you think his solos lack formal innovation. Is Cornet Chop Suey and West End Blues not formal innovation? I don't have the musicological vocabulary, so I really don't know. I concede that you could be right. Based on what I've heard & read, I tend to think he was formally innovative. Or at least he was such a virtuoso that he showed new things that could be done with a trumpet. Let's both ask Santa for [this book] (http://www.amazon.com/Armstrong-Master-Modernism-Thomas-Brothers/dp/0393065820/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top/179-1155808-8851854) and we can come back and compare notes. :)
- That said, ODJB is light years away from the Hot Fives. You can't say that ODJB were doing the same thing 8 years earlier. Real New Orleans style didn't go on wax until 1923, and even then it was really stingy with the solos.
- The Hot Fives were both the apotheosis of the older New Orleans style and the inception of jazz to come after that. And we have no clue what kind of music he was playing in the clubs, but it was certainly different from what he recorded.
- I can oppose the 'great man' approach while at the same time understanding that Armstrong was the greatest influence on jazz at the time. If the 'great man' approach has any validity in jazz, then it's for Louis Armstrong & Charlie Parker. Yes, Bechet, Ellington, Tommy Ladnier and others were also great. But they did not reach God status, at least not by 1928.
- I don't think the deification is modern. Read Mezz Mezzrow's Really the Blues -- he says they absolutely worshiped Armstrong back in 1925 & 1926. They memorized the scat from Heebie Jeebies & would recite it to each other in greeting. I can't find a source but I recall mention of an article from the mid-30s saying "Louis Armstrong stopped being God in 1932." So he had God status. He was the Bird of his day.
- cheers
- )