Louis Armstrong News & Features
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Features6 years agoFats Domino In America’s Living Rooms
The 2 February, 1957 edition of The Perry Como Show featured actors Peter Lawford, Tab Hunter, singers Polly Bergen and the Four Lads...and Fats Domino.
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News6 years ago
Satchmo’s Hot Five At 90
Hotter Than That — 90 Years of Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, an exhibition at the Louis Armstrong House Museum, is celebrating their 90th anniversary.
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News6 years ago
The Greatest Jazz Artists, According to The BBC
The BBC sought to poll their listeners to celebrate the greatest jazz artists ever. Based on a shortlist from jazz presenters, here's the result.
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Features6 years ago
Dateline 1934 – A Hawk and Satchmo Double Bill?
A Hawk and Satchmo double bill was on the cards in London in 1934, but it all fell apart leaving the saxophonist to tour by himself...
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Features6 years agoThe 100 Greatest Jazz Album Covers
The 100 Greatest Jazz Album Covers is a visual feast of some of the 20th century's best design...
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Playlists6 years ago
Louis Armstrong in 20 Songs
How do you sum up Louis Armstrong in just 20 songs? We’d love to hear from you and when you’ve all spoken we’ll complete Louis Armstrong in 20 Songs!
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News6 years ago
Bond Themes Are Forever
The Best Of Bond collects the finest Bond theme tunes ever.
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New Releases6 years ago
New Live Set Celebrates Miss Peggy Lee
The great jazz vocal stylist Peggy Lee will be celebrated by USM’s release of the 3CD/1DVD package ‘Peggy Lee – Live In London’ on December 4.
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News7 years ago
Death Of Motown, Ray Charles Alumnus Marcus Belgrave
Widely-respected trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, who toured with Ray Charles and played with the Funk Brothers at Motown, died May 24 at the age of 78.
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News7 years ago
Satchmo Festival Coming To Corona Park
Details of the second annual Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World festival at Flushing Meadows in June have been announced, with Ms. Lauryn Hill and others.
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New Releases7 years ago
Lady Day Goes Digital
Billie Holiday's albums from her distinguished career are reissued digitally, many for the first time. Lady Day goes digital!
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Features7 years ago
Pops and Billie
The premise of the film was simple – how jazz was born in New Orleans in the early days of the 20th century and then conquered America.
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Features7 years ago
20 Quotes by Louis Armstrong
We’ve pulled together 20 quotes by Louis Armstrong that tell you a lot about himself and his life. Discover the best quotes from Louis Armstrong.
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Features7 years ago
Louis Armstrong’s Very Own Desert Island
The BBC have put on line a long lost edition of Desert Island Discs featuring Satchmo. His 1968 appearance was found in the archives of a US museum.
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Playlists7 years ago
Our Christmas Playlists
Why do we love Christmas music? Perhaps, because we hear it for a few weeks and there's no overkill that can happen with some over-exposed music!
