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Career
- His career spanned five decades from the 1920s to the 1960s ,and different eras in the history of jazz
-Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance
-Experimented with the trombone
-Played with Erskine Tate's Little Symphony which played at the Vendome Theatre
-Armstrong also had success with vocal recordings including versions of famous songs composed by his old friend Hoagy Carmichael
-Armstrong appeared in more than a dozen Hollywood films
-First African American to host a nationally broadcast radio show in the 1930s
Career Continued
-He was hospitalized for a heart attack and once he was released he continued his trumpet playing
-Armstrong died of a heart attack in his sleep on July 6, 1971 which was a month before his 70th birthday
End of Armstrong's life