In 1918, Armstrong married, adopted, and started his musical career. He replaced his mentor, Joe Oliver, in Kid Ory’s band; this band was the most popular in New Orleans at this time. After playing the cornet at bars, funerals, and parties for a while, he began spending his summers on riverboats with Fate Marable’s band. He met jazz legends, Bix Beiderbecks and Jack Teagarden doing this. Louis enjoyed New Orleans and had no intentions of leaving, until he got an offer to go to Chicago and join the Creole Jazz Band. He was remarried a few years later he remarried, and moved to New York. He brought bits and pieces of New Orleans culture into the music produced in his new band. “Armstrong had a great influence on Henderson and his arranger, Don Redman, both of whom began integrating Armstrong’s swinging vocabulary into their arrangements-transforming Henderson’s band into what is generally regarded as the first jazz big band” (Louis