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Tell Them Satchmo Is Feeling Great, Looking Pretty And Blowin' Great!

Profile and Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 13 April 1968

LOUIS ARMSTRONG, ON HIS PERSONAL HOTLINE FROM MIAMI BEACH, TALKS TO ALAN WALSH ...

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong, Part 1

Report and Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 29 June 1968

MAX JONES reports from Batley ...

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong, Part 2

Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 6 July 1968

"I'VE BEEN trying to follow you for 20 years," a trumpet player was saying to Louis Armstrong in Batley the other day. Louis raised his ...

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong, Part 3

Report and Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 13 July 1968

SATCH SAYS THANKS FOR THE THRILL ...

Armstrong The Man...

Memoir by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 17 July 1971

THE ARMSTRONG STORY has been generously documented, on records and in print, and I'm doing my bit in the latter category. But I won't say ...

Louis Armstrong

Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001

b. 4 July 1898, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, d. 6 July 1971, New York ...

Navigating the Swamp of Louis Armstrong Releases

Discography by John Swenson, Offbeat, 1 August 2001

ONE OF the happiest side effects of the Louis Armstrong centennial celebration is the reconfiguration of this master musician's catalog. For many years, much of ...

Louis Armstrong

Book Excerpt by Gene Santoro, 'Highway 61 Revisited...', 2004

FROM 1925 TO 1928, Louis Armstrong made an astonishing series of recordings, the jazz-creating legacy of his Hot Fives and Hot Sevens, a succession of ...

Terry Teachout: Pops – The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong (JR Books)

Book Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 22 November 2009

AS TERRY Teachout makes clear in this terrific biography, the world that Louis Armstrong inhabited was anything but wonderful. It was, for most of his ...

Louis Armstrong: Satchmo

Review by Jim Irvin, The Word, October 2011

The new Louis Armstrong box set isn't the vast trunk you'd expect, more an overnight hag — but it has everything you need. ...

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