Word: satchmo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glory Alley (M-G-M). A couple of shots of Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as a fight trainer playing a trained trumpet almost make this little New Orleans melodrama worth the trouble. Also involved in the proceedings: a cocky prizefighter (Ralph Meeker) who quits the ring because of a mental block, but then proves himself a hero in Korea; a ballet dancer (Leslie Caron) who hoofs in a honky-tonk to support her blind father (Kurt Kasznar). Pretty Leslie (An American in Paris) Caron, playing a Belgian girl in America, is on her toes in a couple of dance numbers...
...Louis Armstrong Story (Columbia 8 sides LP). Collectors who have been scrounging in secondhand stores for years in search of battered copies of Armstrong classics can relax and enjoy more than three hours of Satchmo's trumpeting-from the free-for-all New Orleans style (Gut Bucket Blues, Heebie Jeebies) to his comparatively slicked-up versions of Stardust and Body and Soul...
...Muggsy well remembers the old wave. He had learned his broad, lazy, middle-register style as a scrawny kid, sitting on the curb outside Chicago's Pekin Cafe, listening chin-in-hand to the stream of notes pouring from the golden horns of Joe ("King") Oliver and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong. He got his first job at 14, blew his head off from 8:30 at night to 4:30 in the morning for $25 a week...
...Rose (Louis Armstrong; Decca). Satchmo goes continental with a gravel-voiced version of the Edith Piaf café favorite...
Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, who was born on July 4 just 50 years ago, got posies and presents from well-wishers all over the world. The jazz magazine Down Beat glowed with testimonials to the great man's greatness. Old Friend Tallulah Bankhead compared him to Charlie Chaplin and Mozart. The State Department thanked him for recordings which the Voice of America beamed to every part of the globe. Satchmo was particularly cheery because he had just learned that he did not have ulcers; all he needed was to stay off his favorite food, red beans & rice. "They...