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5 days ago · Roosevelt Public Library is slated to host a screening of "Little Satchmo" followed by a discussion with the film's star, the secret daughter of jazz legend Louis Armstrong. Photo Credit: Google Maps street view/Instagram via rooseveltpubliclibrary
3 days ago · 1919–1971. Signature. Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed " Satchmo ", " Satch ", and " Pops ", [2] was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of jazz. [3]
5 days ago · Film screenings have been held by Sunshine City Film Festival and DreamMakerz Productions.Other recent film presentations have included David Weathesby and Khari Bowden’s Chicago body-positive, house music documentary Thee Debauchery Ball, Sharon Preston-Folta’s Little Satchmo, and a screening of Sutherlin’s Lifetime Kirk Franklin’s A Gospel Christmas.
2 days ago · A doorstopper of an account, but written with a novelist’s eye towards narrative’s elucidating power, everything is in Ted Gioia’s The History of Jazz—Satchmo and Bix, the Duke and the Count, Bird and Trane. Revised several times since its release, Gioia is a critic who writes in the rarest of idioms for that vocation: in the tenor of ...
1 day ago · A deep dive into his latest album, Fearless Movement. May 25, 2024 Jason Gross. Kamasi Washington (Image: Jason Gross) The shitty thing about pioneers is also what makes them so exciting — after dazzling us, they’re competing against themselves again and again to top themselves. That’s exactly where Los Angeles jazz saxophonist Kamasi ...
4 days ago · by Matt Micucci. Louis Armstrong’s “We Have All the Time in the World” is heard nine minutes into the new 007 feature, No Time to Die, starring Daniel Craig. The song was originally composed by film composer John Barry with lyrics by Hal David and became a late-life hit for Satchmo.
4 days ago · Louis Armstrong’s ‘Last Great’ Performance, a 1968 BBC Concert, Finally Set for Release. Louis in London, out July 12, captures trumpeter's 13-song set for the BBC, a gig that "Satchmo ...
