Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time that Kennedy was blowing his trumpet and cornet in Cambridge, Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke were in the national spotlight on these instruments respectively. Both are among the cornerstones of Kennedy's record collection, which also includes nearly every now priceless record Bing Crosby made before he started to groan and ceased to sing with Paul Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys...
...music's anaesthetic effect must have made it particularly popular in Europe during the period between the wars. France had its stringed Hot Club, and Hugues Pannassie learned to speak English with a Louisiana accent. In his biography, "Swing That Music," Louis Armstrong refers to his 1934 Continental tour glowingly; "everybody was mighty nice to me and made me fell right away I was with friends. A lot of the musicians asked me if it wasn't true that when I hit my high C's on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. They had not thought...
...judge from a recent album of re-issues called Louis Armstrong Paris, 1934, (Vox Spotlight No.300) the high C lovers were not disappointed. Louis must have been in wonderful physical condition. Though his tone had already thinned down, and his improvisations would sometimes degenerate into redundant lip exercises, his playing had a certain, since lost brilliance, and if like later virtuosos he prostituted his art as a concession to the franc, still it remained a rather original kind of prostitution...
...Salt Lake City, despite the sobs of Coach "Kickapoo Ike" Armstrong, alias The Weeping Indian, unbeaten Utah rolled over Colorado A. & M., 19 to 0. Kickapoo Ike, who before a game never lets it be suggested that Utah might win, is enroute to his eleventh Big Seven Conference title in 23 years...
...farewell note has yet been discovered, and Armstrong's family was at a loss to supply any immediate motive for the suicide last night. 'All I can think of is Winant's death,'murmured Slack. "This is just as inexplicable...