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...Satchmo" was there, and with the aid of Tallulah's tape-recorded speech, Richard T. Watson '54, chairman of the Conference, presented the prize...
...Satchmo at Pasadena (Louis Armstrong and the All Stars; Decca LP). This is the third jumbo-size recording of the old master's popular outfit recorded at a live concert. By no means the best he has done (both Decca and Victor have shown the All Stars in better form), it is the liveliest album of the week. Armstrong's trumpeting is bright and strong, his gravelly voice as ingratiatingly ribald as ever, and the old songs (Stardust, Honeysuckle Rose, etc.) are still good...
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...