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...serenading through the red-light district. Says Armstrong: "A drunk come along, and maybe he'd give us a dollar. The grown folks were workin' for a dollar a day then." Only his mother was still calling him Little Louie. To everyone else he was Dippennouth or Satchelmouth. Satchelmouth was soon shortened to Satchmo, and it stuck. (Armstrong still favors the name, has emblazed it on his stationery. His specially blended cologne is Satchmo...
Hoagy Carmichael led the cheering when Old Satchelmouth, his steak-thick lips parted in a grin, stepped on the stand with some of the greatest names in jazz behind him-Clarinetist Barney Bigard, Trombonist Jack Teagarden and Drummer Sid Catlett. Out in the smoke, waiting for the first golden notes, were half the big noises of U.S. sweet & swing-Johnny Mercer, Woody Herman, Abe Lyman, Benny Goodman (see PEOPLE...
Louis Armstrong-Paris, 1934 (vox, 6 sides). The hot-jazz cultists insist that the Armstrong of the '20s is the true Armstrong, but he was going strong when he made these records with a mediocre, hastily assembled crew. What counts is Satchelmouth's relaxed singing and trumpeting of such classics as Tiger Rag, On the Sunny Side of the Street, St. Louis Blues. Recording: good...
...revival," and all of a sudden schoolkids who had never seen Sidney knew all about him, from hearing the old records. He shut up his tailor shop and started to play again-usually in small groups, including one of his own called the "New Orleans Feetwarmers." Unlike his friend "Satchelmouth" Armstrong, he refused to front for bigtime, second-rate bands...
...vocal on "Long, Long Journey" should have been something to write home about because the old master of delayed action rhythm and bottom-of-the-well tonsilar gymnastics had not sung any blues for the wax machine since the Decca New Orleans album. For some unknown reason, however, although Satchelmouth's vocal cords seemed to be in the best of form, the record doesn't register. Arrangers of all-star recording sessions encounter innumerable difficulties, especially when they use original tunes. This time the synthetically blue lyric and melody of Mr. Feather's just weren't enough of a catalyst...