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Rare Jazz Films Restored
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
The Los Angeles Museum of Films One Watches In Order to Make Themselves Feel Intellectually Superior (or LAMFO, to its friends) will be unveiling a series of long-forgotten jazz-related films sure to please both jazz snobs and film snobs, if such a thing is possible. The Swing Forward, Fall Back Series follows in the tradition of ...
Forest Whitaker to Play Louis Armstrong
Oscar Winner Will Also Direct What A Wonderful World Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker is about to bring another jazz legend's life story to the big screen. Whitaker, who portrayed Charlie Parker for director Clint Eastwood in Bird, will star in and direct a film on jazz great Louis Armstrong. According to Variety, Whitaker will ...
Louis Armstrong All Stars: Live in Zurich, Switzerland 18.10.1949
by John Barron
If you're looking for a quick-fix, musical pick-me-up, Louis Armstrong is usually a sure-fire guarantee. A wonderful example can be heard in this gem of a radio broadcast, recorded in Zurich, Switzerland in 1949. Featured with the trumpeter is the incomparable Jack Teagarden (trombone) and Barney Bigard (clarinet) romping through a set of toe-tapping familiar fare. ...
Musicmasters Label Brings Unearthed "Satchmo" Recordings
Jazz Legend Louis Armstrong, “King of Swing" Benny Goodman and Others Get Digital Treatment Courtesy of Pact Fans of iconic jazz legend Louis Armstrong can now purchase newly discovered recordings from hundreds of digital retail stores courtesy of a new deal between Musical Heritage Society's MusicMasters label, a premier specialty label, and The Orchard, a global ...
When Ambassadors Had Rhythm
When Ambassadors Had Rhythm Louis Armstrong House Museum HALF a century ago, when America was having problems with its image during the cold war, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the United States representative from Harlem, had an idea. Stop sending symphony orchestras and ballet companies on international tours, he told the State Department. Let the ...
Hot Jazz/Cool Garden at the Louis Armstrong House Museum
Summer Jazz Series at the Louis Armstrong House Museum Free outdoor concert series highlights rising musical stars; Three Sundays: June 22, July 20, August 24 FLUSHING, NY, June 2, 2008 -- Outstanding young bands will play old-time standards in Hot Jazz/Cool Garden, a free concert series launched this summer by the Louis Armstrong House Museum. Made ...
The New Yorker's 100 Essential Jazz Albums
While finishing “Bird-Watcher," a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector. First, I asked Schaap to assemble the list, but, after a ...
Louis Armstrong All Stars: Live in Zurich, Switzerland 18.10.1949
by David Rickert
Just how good was Armstrong's band in 1949? For one thing look at the lineup; you have some of the best players associated with him, like Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, and the crack rhythm section of Earl Hines, Cozy Cole, and Arvell Shaw. This version of the All-Stars, weaned on Armstrong's music, was very familiar with ...
Early Louis Armstrong - New Remastering Technique Reveals Stunning Sound
Pristine Audio demonstrates a stunning new remastering process with this issue of early Armstrong recordings: Louis Armstrong - The Early Years Louis Armstrong (cornet, trumpet, vocal) featuring: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra Clarence William's Blue Five Eva Taylor Bessie ...
Back to the Roots with Louis Armstrong
by C. Michael Bailey
Why must we still listen to this tin-horn, old fashioned, moldy fig jazz when we have cool labels like ECM and Winter & Winter pressing the most cutting edge music imaginable? One reason is because the iconic cornet player Buddy Bolden left no recordings, thus making trumpeter/cornetist/singer Louis Armstrong the ground zero center of jazz. Armstrong ...
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