How Louis Armstrong Transformed the Twentieth Century | Mick Carlon | TEDxYouth@BarnstableHS 

I couldn't agree with you more sir, thank you for this great lecture.

I had him as a teacher 5 years ago, great guy!

Couldn't said it better myself.....

"Do Yourself A Massive Favor... ...And Dive Into Louis Armstrong's Music!"

Great job, Mr. Carlon

A wonderful story, many thanks and thank you for letting me know how to pronounce Louis name properly. Louis Armstrong was an awesome person and an awesome musician, the likes of which we might never hear again.

Great talk -- jazz rhythms throughout!

Good story buddy and I applaud you for getting his name CORRECT! So many people pronounce it as Louie! Where it’s actually pronounced as Lewis! FACT PEOPLE. DO RESEARCH.

8:20 yesterday i listen the what a wonderful world got addicted and started to know about him.

how does this not have more views

Very interesting!

That’s my teacher.

Woah that’s my teacher

he's my teacher

Thank you TED and Mr Carlon. Armstrong has been such a GREAT GENIUS that we are still discovering and appreciating his artistic legacy. As an educator and musician myself, I found that the offensive words about Seger Ellis have been hurting and out of tune. To not despise anyone is a Must for everyone, especially for teachers. A genius is a genius without taking anything away from anyone.

Nifty sneakers, sir!

"..before Louie.." > 7:21

Agreed with every word except one in the conclusion. Louis Armstrong was not the giant of American music - leave out 'American' because he was far bigger than that.

As much as I love Louis Armstrong, his music, his personality, his outstanding entertainment abilities, and his attitude, and his free word of Dippermouth advertising for Swiss Kriss, generic name senna leaf tea, I have to say that I don't think he was single-handedly responsible for the changes that occurred in music, in the 20th century. As Mike Carlon said himself, the Dippermouth, his charming inventive improvisations, and recording devices which record such music, all came along at the same time. Satchel Mouth put his shoot down into the grooves, and the grooves got distributed far and wide. The mass distribution of the grooves, and the people who did the creation and the distributing, had something to do with the change in music that happened. Musicians all over the place heard, took notice, and communicated with each other. The groove-cutting machines that distributed Louis' sound into a spiral of narrow grooves, the people that engineered them the machines, the people that bought and sold the machines, have a great deal of the responsibility for changing music. The people that used the groove cutting machines to put Satch-mo's music into grooves, and the people that bought and sold the groovy-disks, have a great deal of the responsibility for changing music. The fact that musicians listened to what was in the groove on various disks, took particular notice of Satchmo's grooves, said to others "holy shoot listen to this" and then distributed Satchmo's grooves all over the place, have a great deal of the responsibility for changing music. Among these people was Pop's business manager, organized-crime connected Joe Green, who arranged for Pops to get good gigs that he would get properly paid for. There was also Pops' disabled brother, who Pops loved and felt a responsibility to. Pops' desire to spread his fame and accumulate wealth, and spread his music far and wide - stemmed from this.

Wat happened to Louis being raised by a Jewish family? And speaking fluent Yiddish?

I don't have my glasses on.. is this ted talk given by a talking tree?

Some inaccurate information, but the story is compellingly told.