Event · 1922 · Chicago [41.88, -87.63]
Armstrong joins King Oliver in Chicago (1922)
In 1922 King Oliver sent for his young protégé Louis Armstrong to leave New Orleans and join the Creole Jazz Band in Chicago. The move placed the two cornetists side by side in the city that had become the new center of recorded jazz. It set the stage for Armstrong's own rise and for the recordings that would carry the New Orleans style to its fullest realization.
Evidence2
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91296829
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- Wikidata: Louis ArmstrongWikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1779
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reacted against by → Closing of Storyville (1917)
The 1917 closing of Storyville removed a major source of work for New Orleans musicians and is widely tied to their migration north. Within a few years that exodus had carried King Oliver to Chicago and set up his 1922 summons to Louis Armstrong.