what style of music did louis armstrong play?
Jazz
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 Louis Armstrong recorded it for Decca Records . 

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 The music in the film is performed by various artists , such as Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald , Frank Sinatra , Ray Charles , Bing Crosby , and Harry Connick Jr . 

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 Between 1900 and 1914 his career skyrocketed , with performances not only in Europe but also in the Americas , the Caribbean , Africa , and Asia . 

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 To get a feel for the era , X @-@ Files composer Mark Snow listened to the big band music of Gene Krupa , Glenn Miller , Tommy Dorsey , and Harry James . The " bouncy instrumental " that plays during the fight scene in the ballroom was inspired by a similar swing tune composed by John Williams for the 1979 Steven Spielberg film 1941 . Snow later joked that his composition was " the third generation of the same inspiration . " Carter had significant musical input when it came to scene transitions , saying , " I got a chance to use some of my favorite ' 40s music here , too , or ' 30s and ' 40s music to transition scenes . " The song that is heard near the end of the ballroom fight and in the scene featuring Scully and the Lone Gunmen searching for the Queen Anne is a piece of stock music called " Hot Liquorice " , composed by Dick Walters . Producer Paul Rabwin oversaw a special arrangement of the 1938 jazz standard " Jeepers Creepers " , which was included in the ballroom scene . 

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 Though jazz had long since achieved some limited popularity , it was Louis Armstrong who became one of the first popular stars and a major force in the development of jazz , along with his friend pianist Earl Hines . Armstrong , Hines , and their colleagues were improvisers , capable of creating numerous variations on a single melody . Armstrong also popularized scat singing , an improvisational vocal technique in which nonsensical syllables ( vocables ) are sung . Armstrong and Hines were influential in the rise of a kind of pop big band jazz called swing . Swing is characterized by a strong rhythm section , usually consisting of double bass and drums , medium to fast tempo , and rhythmic devices like the swung note , which is common to most jazz . Swing is primarily a fusion of 1930s jazz fused with elements of the blues and Tin Pan Alley . Swing used bigger bands than other kinds of jazz , leading to bandleaders tightly arranging the material which discouraged improvisation , previously an integral part of jazz . Swing became a major part of African American dance , and came to be accompanied by a popular dance called the swing dance . 
