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...These cats are solid." See BUSINESS, Akwaaba, Satchmo...
...radio. Whenever he arrived in a city-in Accra, Kano, Ibadan, Kumasi, Lagos and Enugu-huge crowds turned out to cheer him, including the "all-powerful" King of the Ashantis, King Nana Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. The object of all this adulation was U.S. Trumpet Ace Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, on a gravelly-voiced West African tour last week designed to persuade Africans to drink more Pepsi-Cola. Admission fee to the outdoor concerts by Satchmo and his six All-Stars: five Pepsi-Cola bottle tops and 1 shilling...
...Soviet consumption, Bernstein's music for the show will be inaudible. Meanwhile, top Russian Composer Tikhon Khrennikov, who toured the U.S. last month (TIME, Nov. 23) with four other leading Soviet musicians, spoke out on his impressions of popular capitalist music. Most jazz musicians, including Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, he adjudged "vulgar, unnatural and in anything but good taste." But he had a kind word for Clarinet Virtuoso Benny Goodman: kho-lodny (real cool...
There was none of the improvised Dixieland so familiar to festivals; nor were there many personal appearances by such great solo showmen as "Satchmo" Armstrong or Gene Krupa. Instead, classics-minded young jazzmen concentrated on the brassy new progressive jazz and the slightly atonal West Coast styles, and played their well-rehearsed arrangements with the cool elegance of conservatory students. Even Stan Kenton's 18-piece (including bongo drums) orchestra had its own smooth brand of progressive beat. But the real stars of the festival were the small, intimate combos that played jazz with a new maturity and subtlety...
...Peewee Russell, Fud Livingston and Wingy Manone all worked for him at various times-were later worth their weight in greenbacks. In real life, Red missed the big money in the '30s and made a comeback in 1944. His film biography is heavy with heroics and sentimentality, but Satchmo is almost worth the price of admission. At 59, he still grins, gravels, and blasts away on the trumpet with enormous energy. And Comedian Kaye, whenever the script gives him a chance, does mimic wonders to fatten up a part that is really from hunger...