Word: satchmo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This one's for you, Rex," shouted Louis Armstrong to King George V during a command performance in 1932. Satchmo has since learned a little more about protocol, and his ten-minute audience with Pope Paul VI last week-the third Pope to receive him-was properly decorous. His Holiness presented Louis and Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton with medals. The jazzmen responded with a folio of Michelangelo drawings and a couple of autographed recordings-which ought to enliven the Vatican's record library...
...DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Caterina Valente joins Louis Armstrong and Danny in a tooting salute to Satchmo's 53 years as jazzman...
Stealing from Satchmo. For Hines, the acclaim abroad is the echo of a grander triumph back home. Now 60, he is the founding fatha of modern jazz piano. Yet for the better part of the past 15 years, he foundered as a forgotten jazz immortal swept aside by capricious tastes. Two years ago, his name was nowhere on the jazz popularity polls. Many fans thought that he had passed on to that big jam session in the sky. In this year's Down Beat International Jazz Critics Poll, however, he was voted the world's No. 1 jazz...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Five Pennies. This movie biography of Jazz Musician Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols is laden with heroics and sentimentality, but Danny Kaye and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong have a ball and save the show...
...motorcade swung on down South Rampart Street, and Louis Armstrong, 65, felt like doing a little swinging himself. "These are my old stomping grounds," graveled Satchmo. "Everybody was blowin' good stuff here when I was a kid." Louis came back to his home town on Louis Armstrong Day to play a benefit concert for the New Orleans Jazz Museum. "I used to stand on the corners and play until the cops came along and ran us away," recalled' Louis, fingering the cornet he first learned to toot 52 years ago at the old Waifs Home. Then he grinned...