For some reason the other one was closed. I was gonna say....

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Who knows... but yeah that is a gooder

LOUIS. For the literate among us, did you know he loved to type? And wrote and answered his own letters throughout his career. Love him!

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LOUIS. For the literate among us, did you know he loved to type? And wrote and answered his own letters throughout his career. Love him!

Is this a quote from a gushing, well-meaning fan in the 1930's, or is the fact that he could write his own letters really seem like a big deal to you?

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For the literate among us, Love him!

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SATCHMO - My Life In New Orleans - Louis Armstrong
LONDON Peter Davies



ROCKMAN

Louis was FABULOUS!!

Love me some "Pops".

If you do too, you should check out the "Louis Armstrong Birthday Broadcast on radio station WKCR, 89.9 FM New York, which is from Columbia University. It is held every year on July 4th. DJ and music history professor Phil Schaap puts on an incredible broadcast, at least a day long, sometimes several, devoted to his music.


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When I lived in NYC Louis was the soundtrack to my 4th of July and now I stream the station to continue the tradition.

red beans and ricely yours

So who did Louis Armstrong idolize? Why it's the cornetist on this little number.

In the book OBSERVATIONS Truman Capote wrote bio sketches to accompany photos Richard Avedon had taken of those same people.

Truman Capote on Louis Armstrong:

"Surely Satch has forgotten, still, he was one of this writer's first friends, I met him when I was four, that would be around 1928, and he, a hard-plump and belligerently happy brown Buddha, was playing aboard a pleasure steamer that paddled between New Orleans and St. Louis. Never mind why, but I had occasion to take the trip very often, and for me the sweet anger of Armstrong's trumpet, the froggy exuberance of his come-to-me-baby mouthings, are a piece of Proust's madeleine cake: they make Mississippi moons rise again...The Satch, he was good to me, he told me I had talent, that I ought to be in vaudeville; he gave me a bamboo cane and a straw boater with a peppermint headband; and every night from the stand announced, `Ladies and gentlemen, now we're going to present you one of America's nice kids, he's going to do a little tap dance.' Afterward I passed among the passengers, collecting in my hat nickels and dimes...Six years later, while living in a boarding school from which I wanted to run away, I wrote my former, now famous, benefactor, and said if I came to New York, couldn't he get me a job at the Cotton Club or somewhere? There was no reply, maybe he never got the letter, it doesn't matter, I sill loved him, still do."

Beautiful! Thanks.

That's how Bix Beiderbecke first heard Armstrong. Beiderbecke is from the Mississippi River front town of Davenport, Iowa. The steamers went up and down the Mississippi in the summer and Bix would first hear Satchmo going by from the landing and then eventually he'd get on board. Got to play some himself later. They met up again in Chicago. Due to segregation they couldn't actually play on stage together, so they'd get together after hours and play in private clubs. Somebody said Bix's notes were like bullets shot at a bell. There was no one else in Armstrong and Beiderbecke's league. Beiderbecke was the first great white jazz instrumentalist.

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I love Apollo threads.

all the way from heaven....thanx for yo sweet words! Louis

Louis' house in Queens has been turned into a small museum - really wonderful. We were there three years ago and got a guided tour - very intimate because only another couple was with us and the very knowledgable guide.

Sorry that this info is too late for all the concert goers - but if anyone here visits NYC, this museum is a must!