Word: satchmo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear across the runways of Rome's Ciampino airport last week came the brassy Dixieland chatter of Muskrat Ramble, swung by "The Roman New Orleans Band." Teen-age Italian hepcats, backed by placards of "Welcome Louie," were beating out a solid welcome for American Jazz Potentate Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong and his All-Stars.* On the last lap of his first grand European tour since 1935, Satchmo had found solid welcomes and solid houses wherever he landed. In Stockholm, 40,000 fans welcomed him at the airport; thousands waited in line all night to get tickets for his concert. Stockholm...
Kneeling Worshipers. In Helsinki, 7,500 devotees crowded a hall built for 3,600, cheered the old New Orleans standbys that Louis played for them. In Copenhagen, the director of the State Symphony Orchestra dismissed afternoon rehearsal so that his musicians could go and hear Satchmo's golden trumpetings of High Society and Royal Garden Blues. In Turin, Armstrong worshipers squatted or knelt in the theater aisles when all seats were filled. Rome's welcome was the biggest yet. Armstrong played three sellout concerts, got embraced by Italian Cinema Queen Anna Magnani (Open City). Sightseeing in the Coliseum...
...Special Audience. Satchmo was enthusiastic about the spaghetti and about some Italian mineral water he had found. "I was skoaling with everybody up there in Scandanavia," he explained, "and that schnapps tore my stomach up." He also expressed interest in Roman history: "They tell me that Nero had a chick with him when this joint burnt down." But by all odds the high spot came after Satchmo (who has Baptist leanings and wears a Star of David medallion around his neck) said that he had always wanted to meet the Pope. It was arranged; Satchmo and his wife Lucille were...
...last month it was announced that Louis Armstrong would play a three-week stand at Bop City in New York. This notice badly frightened those who have been looking to Satchmo' to stifle the moans and yelps of the musical fringe that is bop; but the fright passed as Armstrong stuck to his two-beat last and gave no ground to the banana-split-and-beret coterie that haunts the "bars" in bop halls. It would seem that there are still people who prefer the easy phrases of Dixieland to the jolts and bumps of the new form...
...Williams was only eleven, Pittsburgh's jazzbos, including Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, were already calling for her after school to come and jam with them. Count Basie and Duke Ellington used to slide off their piano benches so she could sit down and they could listen. The night "Satchmo...