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Armstrong showed an interest in music as a boy and he taught himself to play the cornet. He played the cornet and bugle at reform school where he soon became the leader and he went on to become one of the most famous <a href ="../history/show_history.php?id=48">jazz</a> trumpet soloists. </p> <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7Ik7f_lNqgY&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7Ik7f_lNqgY&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> <p> <div class="accent">Essential Albums:</div> Click on album cover to buy. </p> <table> <tr><td> <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000007P27/digitaldaydre-20" target="_blank"><IMG SRC="albums/armstrong_the_very_best_of.gif" border="0" alt="The Very Best of Louis Armstrong" hspace="3" vspace="3" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="90"></a> </td></tr> <tr><td> <p> <div class="accent">Discography:</div></p> <p><div class="enc">Louis Armstrong Plays The Blues (1924)<br> New Orleans Jazz (1940)<br> Satchmo Sings (1947)<br> Satchmo at Symphony Hall (live) (1947)<br> Satchmo at Symphony Hall, Vol.2 (live) (1947)<br> New Orleans Days (1950)<br> Jazz Concert (live) (1950)<br> New Orleans Nights (1950)<br> Satchmo on Stage (live) (1950)<br> Satchmo Serenades (1950)<br> New Orleans to New York (1950)<br> Satchmo at Pasadena (live) (1951)<br> Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (1954)<br> Latter Day Louis (1954)<br> Louis Armstrong Sings The Blues (1954)<br> Satch Plays Fats: The Music of Fats Waller (1955)<br> Satchmo the Great (live) (1955)<br> Ambassador Satch (1955)<br> Great Chicago Concert 1956 (live) (1956)<br> American Jazz Festival at Newport (live) (1956)<br> Ella and Louis (1956)<br> At Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Vol.1 (live) (1956)<br> Louis Under The Stars (1957)<br> Porgy and Bess (1957)<br> Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (1957)<br> Louis and the Angels (1957)<br> Satchmo in Style (1959)<br> Louis & The Dukes of Dixieland (1960)<br> Paris Blues (1960)<br> Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington (1961)<br> Armstrong/Ellington: Together For The First Time/The Great Reunion (1961)<br> Together For The First Time (1961)<br> Hello, Dolly (MCA) (1963)<br> Satchmo (1964)<br> Louis (1964)<br> I Will Wait For You (1967)<br> The Satchmo Way (1968)<br> What a Wonderful World (1970)<br> Louis Live (2000)<br> The Katanga Concert (live) (2000)<br> In Concert (live) (2001)<br> Best Live Concert, Vol.2 (2001) </div> </p> </td> </tr> </table></div> <tr><td colspan="2"> <hr/> <table cellspacing="0" class="forum"> <tr><td class="blnk">Errors, omissions, comments? 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