Satchmo

[ToadKiller Dog]

Watching the legend Louis Armstrong night on bbc 4 ,what a performer ,

 

One of the Artists on the list ,i wish i could have seen live ,maybe in a smoke filled speak easy in prohibition era USA.

Sunny side of the street a favorite of mine on the ipod every saturday on the train to tynie. .

Zaababbaaa doooo.

[Auld Reekin']

Watching the legend Louis Armstrong night on bbc 4 ,what a performer ,

 

One of the Artists on the list ,i wish i could have seen live ,maybe in a smoke filled speak easy in prohibition era USA.

Sunny side of the street a favorite of mine on the ipod every saturday on the train to tynie. .

Zaababbaaa doooo.

 

I like his really early (Hot Five) stuff and some of the later recordings, but not too keen on the tracks he sings on. It's not that he sings badly, but I just think it was a slippery slope towards cabaret (and

"Cabaret"!) and duetting with Barbara Streisland. Which is not a good thing...

 

Having said that, I'm not too keen on jazz singing, or jazz with singing, at the best of times: much prefer the instruments doing the talking.

 

Unfortunately, my cr@ppy digi-box doesn't often receive BBC4 very well so I've not been able to watch any of it.

[Beverley]

he did some really good stuff with ella fitzgerald, legends both!

 

 

in fact i have an old cassette somewhere, leading ladies of jazz i think its called, where she does a really funny impression of him during a song.

 

 

i love satchmo, and i have to agree, he's someone who it would have been great to have seen back in the day

[Dix Handley]

My grandad (so family legend goes) played pipes with Satchmo, near the

end of the war, played with the Black Watch, Louis was on the bill at a

concert party for Scottish and American troops, and suggested that he

and my grandfather should do a duet as a finale.Would love to know if

there was any truth in it. Needless to say ive always been a big fan.

[south morocco]

What a great nights veiwing,i love the way he smiles when he sings ,his band were'nt bad either were they! top class