Happy Birthday Louis Armstrong!

[skeith]

can we get the biopic starring Tracy Morgan....PLEASE??????

[jazzbo]

Happy Birthday 2019 Louis Armstrong! You're not getting older, you're getting better!

[Shrdlu]

Who saw Pops live?

I did. Adelaide, Australia, 1955, with (for me) his best lineup, with Trummy, Ed Hall, Billy Kyle, Arvell Shaw and Barrett Deems. I don't remember whether Velma was present.

Edited August 4, 2019 by Shrdlu

[JSngry]

 

[Michael]

Hot Fives and Sevens for the rest of the night....

"I'm so sad and lonely.....until I don't know what to do"

Edited August 4, 2019 by Michael

[Brad]

From JazzTimes, a month ago.

The Perfect Fourth of July Jazz Record

[Ted O'Reilly]

I saw Armstrong, with Trummy Young, Peanuts Hucko, Billy Kyle, Danny Barcelona and I think Mort Herbert, at the Arena in Hamilton Ontario, in the autumn of 1959.  I remember the event, if not the exact date.  Most of my college classmates were already deep into rock, and me liking jazz was considered odd.

[gmonahan]

21 hours ago, Ted O'Reilly said:

... me liking jazz was considered odd.

I imagine that would hold for most of us here!

 

 

gregmo

[jazzbo]

[ghost of miles]

Trotting out this archival Night Lights show today on social media in honor of the great man:

Satchmo, Take Two: Louis Armstrong At The Movies

The world may not seem that wonderful, especially right now, but it's always at least a little bit that way if you're listening to Louis Armstrong.

[Hardbopjazz]

Pops was the best.  

[jazzbo]

 

Pops, Mercer Ellington, Willis Conover and "General" the Armstrong's Boston terrier.

[jazzbo]

Happy Birthday to one of the most important men of the Twentieth Century!

I'm playing your music today Louis!

[mjzee]

I prefer when his birthday was July 4th.  Still, happy birthday, Louie!

[Hardbopjazz]

Pops. He will always be the best. Duke once said, “Louis was born poor, and died rich, but he never hurt anyone his entire life.”  

[JSngry]

This is how you program your kid correctly. Put them down for their nap and lay the Glenn Miller Story OST record with these two at the end of each side. Teach your children that all is not as it seems looking out their front door. It's the right thing to do!

oh MY!!!!

 

[John L]

Happy birthday to the Amstrongs, Louis and Lon!

[jazzbo]

Thanks John.

[jazzbo]

[John L]

On 8/5/2021 at 9:03 PM, John L said:

Happy birthday to the Amstrongs, Louis and Lon!

ditto. D)

[gmonahan]

11 hours ago, John L said:

ditto. D)

+1

[JSngry]

I hate that the best we can be is dead. We need him or her or it or them to be alive and walking the planet today, in the flesh and in the blood.

If love conquers all, perhaps we no longer understand love. But Louis never forgot.