Louis Armstrong is credited for telegraphing Joe Oliver in New Orleans to join him in Chicago after returning from New York.

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Joe "King" Oliver telegraphed Louis Armstrong in New Orleans to come to Chicago; the roles were not reversed.

1) Relevant knowledge points and concepts:
- Joe "King" Oliver was an established bandleader in Chicago who had been a mentor to Louis Armstrong in New Orleans.
- In the early 1920s, Oliver recruited New Orleans musicians to join his Creole Jazz Band in Chicago.
- Louis Armstrong moved to Chicago to play with Oliver (Armstrong later moved to New York in 1924 to work with Fletcher Henderson).

2) Step-by-step reasoning:
- Oliver left New Orleans and established himself in Chicago, assembling a band that needed strong young players.
- To fill positions, Oliver sent invitations (in some accounts, telegrams) to promising New Orleans musicians, including the young Armstrong.
- Armstrong received such an invitation and subsequently relocated to Chicago to join Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band in 1922.
- The claim in the statement reverses this historic sequence by asserting that Armstrong telegraphed Oliver in New Orleans to join him in Chicago after Armstrong returned from New York. That contradicts who recruited whom and the chronological order of events.

3) Calculations/intermediate steps:
- Not applicable; this is a historical sequence rather than a numeric calculation.

4) Why the correct answer is correct:
- Primary biographical accounts and jazz histories consistently show Joe Oliver as the recruiter who brought Armstrong north; Armstrong was the one who received the invitation/telegram and moved to Chicago. Therefore the assertion that Armstrong telegraphed Oliver is incorrect.

5) Why the other option (True) is incorrect:
- "True" would require evidence that Armstrong initiated a telegram inviting Oliver to Chicago after Armstrong’s return from New York. Historical records do not support that; they show Oliver did the inviting and that Armstrong’s move to Chicago preceded his New York engagements.

6) Conclusion:
- The correct choice is False, which matches the provided answer.

Louis Armstrong is credited for telegraphing Joe Oliver in New Orleans to join him in Chicago after returning from New York.True/False

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