{"id":4968,"date":"2013-08-04T17:45:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T00:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2013-08-04T17:46:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T00:46:50","slug":"louis-armstrongs-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/08\/louis-armstrongs-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Armstrong&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/images-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/images-1.jpg\" alt=\"images-1\" width=\"160\" height=\"186\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4969\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Louis Armstrong was born on this day in 1901. When he was 26, he recorded King Oliver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153West End Blues\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with an opening cadenza that put the world on notice that this new music was an art form to be taken seriously. How big was Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impact on the development of jazz in the late 1920s? No one has described it more succinctly than one of his greatest admirers, the cornetist Ruby Braff. Braff said that Armstrong \u00e2\u20ac\u0153changed everything.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WvkEd0LZr8c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom Five: Earl Hines piano; Jimmy Strong clarinet; Fred Robinson, trombone; Mancy Carr, banjo; Zutty Singleton, drums; Armstrong trumpet and vocal. June 28, 1928.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Armstrong was born on this day in 1901. When he was 26, he recorded King Oliver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153West End Blues\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with an opening cadenza that put the world on notice that this new music was an art form to be taken seriously. How big was Armstrong\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impact on the development of jazz in the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}