Trivia Answer for February 21 Question
Who said this and of whom: “You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis hasn’t played.”
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong
2007 Smithsonian Jazz Institute Poster
Answer: Trumpeter, Miles Davis, speaking of trumpeter, Louis Armstrong.
More Louis Armstrong quotes:
“Louis not only influenced trumpet players, he changed the modus operandi of jazz by inventing the solo.” Trumpeter, Dizzy Gillespie
Jazz scholar David Baker described Louis Armstrong as “the trumpeter, composer, vocalist . . . and innovator who was the most influential and imitated . . . musician of the first fifty years of jazz.”
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