me to see him and the Creole Jazz Band play at the Lincoln Gardens. Louis' name was also well known throughout the jazz world. He was being asked to play with all the big name musicians. In 1928 Louis received a telegram from Fletcher Henderson asking Louis to come to New York and play with him. Louis accepted and took a pay cut to do so. Louis had an unbelievable effect on the band; Fletcher Henderson's group never sounded better. The bulk of their shows were played in the Roseland Ballroom, but from time to time the band would go on the road and tour New England, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Armstrong had a great impact on other musicians which started in Chicago, but with King Oliver and the Creole Jazz Band Armstrong didn't get much solo exposure, with the Henderson band it was different. He was a featured musician and soloed on approximately half the records. He was getting a great deal of exposure at the Roseland where white musicians came to hear him and he also was getting exposure from the black by playing clubs in Harlem.Armstrong was also taking another step and that was to have an enormous consequences for him and inevitably for the history of jazz. He began to sing with the Henderson Band. By 1925 Satchmo had established himself as a force in the music business, but was till unknown by the public. He could have stayed with Henderson as long as he wanted but he was getting restless in the band. He was annoyed that Henderson didn't take his singing seriously and didn't think that many of the musicians within in the band took their jobs seriously. So in November 0f 1925 he left Henderson and went back to Chicago. This was a critical move for the history of Jazz. Armstrong almost immediately entered the studios and started recording a series of recording called the Hot Fives and Sevens, which gave him a lasting name. Had he remained with Henderson sharing solo space with other musicians he still would have been influential bu...
