Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bandstand for 15 wonderful years (1923-38). Composer Henderson (whose "frustration" was that his greatest success came as an arranger with Goodman rather than as a leader) collected the most extraordinarily gifted group of sidemen in jazz history, and most of them are on triumphant display-Trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge, Saxmen Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, Trombonists J. C. Higginbotham and Dicky Wells. Among the treasures: Wang Wang Blues, Christopher Columbus, Henderson's own exuberant Can You Take...
...Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Drama about refugees trying to escape from East Berlin...
...Blues (United Artists) has something for the tourists: autumn in Paris. It has something for the cats: regressive jazz by Duke Ellington. It has something for the newspaper ads: a hint of interracial romance. It has something for the marquee: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll, Louis Armstrong. All it lacks is something to pull these parts into a sensible whole...
...football team--already hit by the losses of Terry Bartolet, Hobie Armstrong, and Roy Williams--now finds itself without the services of Hank Hatch, speedy first-string right halfback who is out for three to six weeks with mononucleosis...
...army guardhouse after he fell asleep on sentry duty. Wearing bowler hats and striped waistcoats Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band are half New Orleans and half Somerset cider, thumping out numbers like Run Come See Jerusalem and Ory's Creole Trombone, while Bilk makes Louis Armstrong-style comments. At last year's annual trad jazz festival at Beaulieu. Bilk was in such demand that fans shouting his name booed a modern combo off the stage, threw beer bottles and overturned TV cameras in a riot that approximated the American shambles at Newport. The Daily Telegraph calls...