25 (D-37) For your listening pleasure / Storyville

After yesterday's interruption, I must return to Louis Armstrong before we move on.
Here's another biography you can read, and please watch the 3 minute and 55 second video.  A good listening exercise and so interesting. How much can you understand?
http://www.biography.com/people/louis-armstrong-9188912#synopsis

A little work...then a lot of pleasure.
Enjoy listening to the following well-known selections.

In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal improvision with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all.  (Similar to learning English at times !!) Although Louis Armstrong's 1926 recording of Heebie Jeebies is often considered to be the first song to use scatting, there are many earlier examples.  In the first selection, you can listen to Louis Armstrong scatting. 
Heebie-Jeebies 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmGt2U-xTE

La Vie en Rose (Click PLUS to see the words to the song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IJzYAda1wA  

Hello Dolly     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7N2wssse14

Summertime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnXLVTi_m_M  with Ella Fitzgerald

Mack The Knife  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-lHrDPjGfQ

What a Wonderful World  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM

When the Saints Go Marching In   (You can sing along!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA 

Thank you Louis.

Jane
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STORYVILLE


As a child, Louis Armstrong lived in Storyville.

Storyville was the red light district of The French Quarter, a 16-block area where prostitution was not illegal from 1897 to 1917.
Storyville contained a large variety of brothels and parlors to satisfy the diverse visitors of New Orleans.  Mahogany Hall was the most lavish whorehouse in Storyville, operated by Lulu White, an important business woman in Storyville.  She was one of the most famous madams in Storyville.  At Mahogany Hall (originally called The Hall of Mirrors), a four-story building with 15 bedrooms and five parlors, she employed 40 prostitutes.  The Hall was forced to close down in 1917 following the closure of Storyville. 
Jazz did not originate in Storyville, but it flourished there as it did in the rest of the city.

The House of the Rising Sun (Joan Baez) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSnetK7zW_U
Not jazz, but the story of Storyville: "There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun"
_____________________________________________________ For vocabulary, go to your dictionaries or google!