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Louis Armstrong
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Language
English
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Adam, a brilliant trumpet player, is burdened with guilt following a car accident in which his wife and child were killed. He finds happiness briefly with another woman but turns to drink and is wrongly convicted as a drug-addict when arrested after a drunken brawl. Desperate for money, his agent books him a series of one-night stands and one night, while playing a farewell number with the band, Adam collapses. The audience believe him to be drunk...
Author
Publisher
Verve Select
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
On December 3, 1963, at age 62, when most folks are thinking about retirement, Louis Armstrong recorded the sprightly Hello, Dolly!, the title song for a Broadway show. Thus began a six-year-long series of recordings that arguably brought one of the most important 20th century musicians back into the limelight and gave him some of his greatest recording successes.
28) Grace notes
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Rare musical performances: Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grapelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in Jazz hot (1939), Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra featured in Black and tan (1929), Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen, 1934, and a 1929 performance from the Utica Jubilee Singers.
Author
Publisher
Decca
Pub. Date
p2000
Language
English
Description
"Focuses on his vocals and his contribution to popular music during thirty of his prime years, 1938 to 1967 with duets with legendary performers like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, The Mills Brothers, and Louis Jordan"--Container.
35) The five pennies
Language
English
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Description
Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning. Louis Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling-granite voice. Big Band icons Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony and Shelly Manne join the fun. And Barbara Bel Geddes (decades before *Dallas*) add to the excellent performances in THE FIVE PENNIES, the success-tempered-with-tears biopic of jazz great Red Nichols (portrayed by Kaye). Nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design,...
