Louis Armstrong

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Louis Armstrong (1901-71) - jazz trumpeter.

I've been asked to start a thread about this most famous of musical Armstrongs.

Please discuss and educate me. My mother was a fan.

[amateur51]

My mother was a fan.

Cool!

[Stunsworth]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hot-Fives-Sevens-Louis-Armstrong/dp/B00001ZWLP/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1346101145&sr=1-4

Essential purchase

[LeMartinPecheur]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hot-Fives-Se...6101145&sr=1-4

Essential purchase

Vol 1 of this this set has the very rare track "Comet Chop Suey" - unmissable

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

any man who took a strong laxative at night and smoked a joint first thing in the morning knew how to organise life .... [his regular routine] ...satch always travelled with hie 'herbal supplements' ...

[Stunsworth]

Vol 1 of this this set has the very rare track "Comet Chop Suey" - unmissable

Listening to it as I write <grin>

[Flay]

[charles t]

Some years back, while doing a photo essay at Andy's Jazz Club, in Chicago, Louis' famed drummer - Barrett Deems - was in the group.

I recall that as he played - and - smiled at nearby patrons sitting at tables, he would be muttering under breath:

"Eat sh*t ... Eat sh*t ... Eat sh*t."

Yea, it can get pretty-boring up on the stand...

[Flay]

Go on, have a look at that Armstrong & Kaye video above. I hadn't heard the song for years, and had never seen the video - it looks like they were having great fun! that's how it should be - real entertainment. I love the lyrics: "And Bach that great old master? Yeah, that great old masser was a gasser" etc.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

pops

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

greatness abroad

[Bryn]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hot-Fives-Se...6101145&sr=1-4

Essential purchase

Incredible set! I ordered it on your recommendation and can hardly believe the quality of the transfers, and what playing!

[charles t]

For all you throwback Satchmo's, this Booker Prize (novel) finalist for 2011 - with its' gorgeous cover - should be by your side(s):

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/half-blood-blues-esi-edugyan/1104516948?ean=9781250012708

[Ian Thumwood]

Charles

Just about to read that book. The Booker was staggering last year as it actually included books that you wanted to read in the list! "Snowdrops" is also very good.

[charles t]

Thank you for 'Snowdrops' heads-up, Ian. Actually in my local library!

Can tell that you are a (for lack of a better word) serious book-reader. In the tiny - but - tiny - niche of jazz fiction, there seems to have always been slim pickins'.

There has not appeared - at least to this reader, a jazz-centric novel published reflecting the changes within the post-Coltrane period, for example.

I don't want to carry on this off-topic for the moment...

Later, Jeeves.