"I would like to hit the number"

Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong is singing and playing trumpet in this video. He founded the style of singing commonly known as "scat" in which a vocalist solos using nonsense words, syllables or at times both. As with all of the musicians in this blog, he is considered one of the greatest jazz musicians of the 20th century. Dig if you will, the clarinet solo. While this tune is performed with a "dixieland" feel, you can hear the shift into more modern jazz in both notes and rhythms.