1901 - 1971When speaking of Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby once commented that he was “the beginning and the end of music in America. Though Armstrong didn't single handedly create jazz, he did steer it through five decades of development, breathing structure and imagination into its fiber. In the process he helped change the American ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Tour of the Louis Armstrong House Museum

by Bob Jacobson
February 7, 2005

When Louis Armstrong came home from a road trip one day in 1943, he handed the cab driver the address of the new home his wife Lucille has picked out as a surprise, the first home he had ever owned. Since the house they pulled up to was in a racially-mixed neighborhood, Louis thought the cabbie ...

Album

Hello, Dolly! - The Best Of Part Two

By Louis Armstrong

Label: Label Bleu
Released: 2004

Album

The Essential Louis Armstrong

By Louis Armstrong

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: Disc 1: 1. Sugar Foot Stomp 2. Cake Walkin' Babies From Home 3. Pickin' On Your Baby 4. Heebie Jeebies 5. Willie The Weeper 6. Potatohead Blues 7. West End Blues 8. Basin Street Blues 9. Beau Koo Jack 10. St. James Infirmary 11. Tight Like This 12. I Can't Give You Anything But Love 13. Ain't Misbehavin' 14. Black and Blue 15. That Rhythm Man 16. St. Louis Blues 17. Bessie Couldn't Help It 18. Confessin' Disc 2: 1. Memories of You 2. Shine 3. Walkin' My Baby Back Home 4. Blue Again 5. You Rascal You 6. When It's Sleepytime Down South 7. Lazy River 8. Star Dust 9. Georgia On My Mind 10. Shadrack 11. On the Sunny Side of the Street 12. When the Saints Go Marching In 13. Rockin' Chair 14. Blueberry Hill 15. Mack the Knife 16. Aunt Hager's Blues 17. Honeysuckle Rose 18. A Fine Romance 19. What a Wonderful World

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Article: Extended Analysis

The Essential Louis Armstrong

by Colin Fleming
September 7, 2004

Louis Armstrong The Essential Louis Armstrong Columbia Legacy Recordings 2004 A potentially unwieldy concept, the compilation--woe the artist whose work spans decades and styles at the prospect of the two-disc catchall. As with Bob Dylan, George Gershwin, and Miles Davis, we must number Louis Armstrong among ...

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Article: Book Review

Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Wife

by Jim Santella
April 1, 2004

Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Wife Laurence Bergreen Books On Tape ISBN 0-7366-4103-3 Velma Middleton sang with Louis Armstrong and his all-star band throughout the later years of his varied career. Her velvety-smooth voice lent itself to the trumpeter’s forlorn blues, as well as to his genuine show of ...

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Article: Book Review

Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life

by Jim Santella
March 27, 2004

Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life Laurence Bergreen 1997 ISBN 0-7366-4103-3 Laurence Bergreen paints both a comprehensive and factual summary of the life of Louis Armstrong. He backs up what he says with quotes. Armstrong was a writer. He kept copious notes. The artist bought his first typewriter in 1922 and ...