Jazz is a type of music that was born at s. XIX in USA.
In jazz, it’s important the improvisation. One style of jazz where the improvisation it’s very important it’s free jazz.
The jazz was born concretly in New Orleans. It’s very influenced for the african’s culture.
Apart from there being created these groups of black musicians who act of form autonomous and combined like fell, some styles or kinds are standardized: one of the most known it’s the blues. The blues it’s asociate at bad emotions.
The instruments of jazz are: the bass, the drums, the clarinet, the saxophone,, the trumpet, the trombon, the piano, the violin and in some songs there are vocalists.
The firsts jazz musicians were: King Oliver, Freddie Keppard, Louis Armstorng, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet and Buddy Bolden.
Rhythmically the two typical features were the break and the stomp.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans in 1901 and he died in 1971. He was a trumpetist and a vocalist of jazz.
He's of one of the most charismatic and innovative figures of the history of the jazz and, probably, he's the most popular musician. 
Armstrong was born in one poor neighborhood. He began to play the trumpet in a reformatory and then he knows his counselor Joe King Oliver. To the time, he was following with attention all the parades of the habitual bands of music in the city and was listening to the veteran musicians all the times could, learning of Bunk Johnson, Buddy Petit and, especially, of Joe King Oliver.
Louis Armstrong was incorporated at the Joe King Oliver’s band. This were the most influence of swing in the 20’s. In this band, Armstrong was announced.
In 1924 he went to the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, the principal afroamerican’s band. He decided learn to read music and he recorded with the best blues singers, for example Bessie Smith.
The Armstrng’s work with Hot Five and Hot Seven it would turn in classic inside the history of the jazz, being enormously influential and reinterpreted.
Armstrong made the scatting famous. Scatting is a solo sung with souns without any sense.
In 1964, Louis won one Grammy fort he best male single.
