Louis Armstrong (1901–1971)
Autore di Satchmo. La mia vita a New Orleans
Sull'Autore
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong is considered one of the most innovative American jazz trumpeters of his era and one of the great ambassadors of American jazz. Armstrong began his career in New Orleans, where, as a young boy, he was a street singer and learned to play the trumpet. In 1922 he moved to mostra altro Chicago and joined the jazz orchestra of Joe "King" Oliver. He quickly became noted for his improvisational style and raised the importance of solo performances in jazz. By the late 1920s, Armstrong led his own jazz ensemble, called the Louis Armstrong Hot Five, which later became the Hot Seven. As he gained in popularity, Armstrong made numerous recordings and performed around the world. He had a number of hit records, including "Hello, Dolly" and "Mack the Knife." He also appeared in Broadway shows and in films. His raspy baritone voice and brilliant trumpet playing combined to make an unforgettable musical sound. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: World Telegram & Sun photo, 1953 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-127236)
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Opere di Louis Armstrong
Christmas Through the Years 16 copie
Satch Plays Fats 7 copie
Vol. 6: St. Louis Blues 4 copie
Ma Vie: Ma Nouvelle Orleans 4 copie
Jazz on a Summer's Day 4 copie
Best of Decca Years 1 4 copie
The Great Chicago Concert 4 copie
Gold Collection 3 copie
Vol. 5: Louis In New York 3 copie
Ella And Louis [LP] 3 copie
Guvnor 3 copie
LOUIS ARMSTRONG C'EST SI BON 3 copie
Super hits 3 copie
C'est Si Bon (Audio CD) 3 copie
Eyes Wide Open 3 copie
Best of the Best 2 copie
Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 1 2 copie
Ain't Misbehavin 2 copie
Very Best of Louis Armstrong 2 copie
Jazz Collection 2 copie
Legendary Louis Armstrong 2 copie
Armstrong Meets Peterson 2 copie
Centennial Anthology 2 copie
Best of Decca Years 2 - Composer 2 copie
Louis Armstrong 1928-1931 2 copie
Collection 2 copie
Hot Fives and Sevens 2 copie
Sings The Blues 2 copie
Louis Wishes You A Cool Yule 2 copie
West End Blues 2 copie
Jeepers creepers 2 copie
Jazz on a Summer's Day [Blu-ray] 2 copie
Just Jazz — Artist — 2 copie
Louis and the Good Book 2 copie
Louis Armstrong Gold 2 copie
Giants of Jazz: Louis Armstrong 1 copia
MUSIC JAZZ CD - Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald - The Complete Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald 1 copia
Sings-His Favorite Jaz 1 copia
Hotter Than That - Jazz Greats 1 copia
Classic Armstrong 1 copia
Reflections 1 copia
Retrospective 1923-1956 1 copia
Nach Miorbhaileach an Saoghal 1 copia
1949 - 1950. CD 1 copia
The very best 1 copia
Jazz Collector Edition 1 copia
His Early Hits 1 copia
Ultimate Collection 1 copia
What A Wonderfull World 1 copia
Big Band Bash 1 copia
Weather Bird - Louis Armstrong 1 copia
Jazz Hot 1 copia
Ramona 1 copia
Γεννήθηκα στην Νέα Ορλεανη 1 copia
Together 1 copia
Louis Armstrong - Collected 1 copia
Music of the Harlem Renaissance 1 copia
Louis Armstrong - Forever Gold 1 copia
Body & Soul [Monaco] 1 copia
Gold [2 CD] 1 copia
Singin' n' Playin' 1 copia
Young Louis Armstrong [RCA] 1 copia
THE HOT FIVES & HOT SEVENS 2 1 copia
The white Christmas album 1 copia
Essential Masters of Jazz 1 copia
Louis Armstrong 1 copia
I Gotta Right To Sing The 1 copia
High Profile 1 copia
The New Orleans function 1 copia
King Louis 1 copia
town hall concert plus LP 1 copia
Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 3 [JSP] 1 copia
Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 4 1 copia
The Jazz Biography Series 1 copia
R&B Christmas 1 copia
עולמו המופלא של לואיס ארמסטרונג 1 copia
Louis Armstrong Jazz 1 copia
The early '60s 1 copia
I will wait for you 1 copia
Hot Five & Hot Seven 1925-28 1 copia
Greatest Hits Live in Concert 1 copia
Bing & Satchmo 1 copia
Sentimental Journey 1922-1972 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Louis and the Good Book 1 copia
Snake Rag 1 copia
Chicago Concert 1 copia
California Concerts 1 copia
The Very Best Of (180G Vinyl) 1 copia
Louis In London 1 copia
Laughin' Louie 1 copia
Pops 1 copia
Meets Oscar Peterson 1 copia
Memories of New Orleans 1 copia
Alexander's Ragtime Band 1 copia
Decca Years [Highlights] 1 copia
Satchmo's hits 1 copia
Hot Fives, Vol. 1 1 copia
the magic duets 1 copia
Best of Christmas 1 copia
Moje życie w Nowym Orleanie 1 copia
A portrait of Louis Armstrong 1 copia
Complete History - 15 CD Box set 1 copia
You Rascal You 1 copia
Louis Armstrong Live in '59 1 copia
Ambassador Satch 1 copia
Fabulous Louis Armstrong 1 copia
Greatest Hits 1932/1940 1 copia
Creole Jazz 1 copia
This Is Jazz 01: Louis Armstrong 1 copia
The great reunion 1 copia
Satchmo's Golden Favorites 1 copia
Town hall concert plus 1 copia
The Platinum Collection 1 copia
Hot Fives & Sevens 4 1 copia
Classics 1931-1932 1 copia
Back in N.Y. 1 copia
Rhythm Saved The World 1 copia
The ABC Collection 1 copia
Satchmo At Symphony Hall 1 copia
The Ultimate Collection 1 copia
Sound sensation 1 copia
The Complete Town Hall Concert 1 copia
Forever Gold 1 copia
The great Louis Armstrong 1 copia
Satchmo Serenades (Audio CD) 1 copia
Greatest 1 copia
Louis Armstrong 1940-1947 1 copia
The Greatest Hits (Audio LP) 1 copia
Mahogany Hall Stomp [CD] 1 copia
Louis Armstrong Memorial 1 copia
Louis Armstrong: The Decca Years 1 copia
Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines 1 copia
Best Of 1 copia
Qué mundo tan maravilloso 1 copia
I love jazz 1 copia
20 Best of Louis Armstrong 1 copia
Satch play fats 1 copia
The silver collection 1 copia
St.Louis Blues 1 copia
Hello, Louis (disco LP) 1 copia
A Rare Batch of Satch 1 copia
Paramount Recordings 1923-1925 1 copia
Hot Five's Hot Seven's Vol.1 1 copia
Hot Fives And Sevens - Volume 2 1 copia
Hot five & hot seven Vol. 2 1 copia
Same 1 copia
American Icon by Louis Armstrong 1 copia
Curcio I Giganti Del Jazz 1 copia
The One and Only Louis Armstrong 1 copia
S.O.L. Blues 1 copia
Swing Low Sweet Satchmo 1 copia
The Kings of Swing, Vol. 5; All-American Jazz Band; Louis Armstrong; The First Esquire Concert, New York (1969) 1 copia
Satchmo Plays King Oliver 200G 1 copia
Under The Stars [Vinyl] 1 copia
Louis & the Angels 1 copia
'Jazzin With Armstrong 1 copia
Satchmo Sings 1 copia
I Double Dare You 1 copia
Weather Bird 1 copia
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 1 copia
Sweethearts on Parade 1 copia
Struttin' With Some Barbeque 1 copia
Laughin' Louie (1932-33) 1 copia
125 Jazz Breaks for Trumpet 1 copia
Male Jazz Singers 1 copia
St. Louis Blues 1 copia
Golden greats 1 copia
Opere correlate
Sleepless in Seattle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1993) — Collaboratore — 69 copie, 1 recensione
New World Writing: Sixth Mentor Selection - A New Adventure in Modern Reading (1954) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2003) — Vocalist — 8 copie, 1 recensione
The Essential Kenny G — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Louis Armstrong (2 CD Audio) — Associated Name — 1 copia
Straight Up: Classics with a Twist (Pottery Barn) by Various Artists, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Joe Williams, Mel… — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Early Years 1 copia
Betty Boop: 23 Classic Cartoons — Actor — 1 copia
In the Mood for Jazz 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Armstrong, Louis
- Nome legale
- Armstrong, Louis Daniel
- Altri nomi
- Satchmo
- Data di nascita
- 1901-08-04
- Data di morte
- 1971-07-06
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Corona, Queens, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- self-educated
- Attività lavorative
- trumpeter
singer - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Breve biografia
- Né à la Nouvelle Orléans, le 4 juillet 1900, Louis Daniel Armstrong, Pops ou Satchmo pour les jazzfans, est le premier grand personnage du jazz. Du style de ses débuts, celui des musiciens de sa ville, il s’échappa rapidement pour créer, tout en conservant les éléments fondamentaux, une manière d'un génial équilibre qui influença tous les solistes du jazz, quel que soit leur instrument. Les boppers et leurs continuateurs lui doivent encore quelque chose. Sans lui le jazz ne serait pas aujourd’hui une musique universelle. Louis Armstrong devint, dès les premières années trente, une vedette populaire. Il sut le rester jusqu’à sa mort, survenue le 6 juillet 1971. Trompettiste à la sonorité ample, brillante et pure, Armstrong chantait aussi admirablement, avec une voix rocailleuse et voilée qui heurtait les auditeurs non initiés mais communiquait une profonde émotion. (Guide Akaï du disque 1983 : Disques jazz blues pop rock, pp. 16-17)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 475
- Opere correlate
- 30
- Utenti
- 1,390
- Popolarità
- #18,498
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 57
- ISBN
- 42
- Lingue
- 9
- Preferito da
- 4
The first thing you notice is that this doesn't appear to have been edited in any way - not for grammar, not for consistency, and certainly not for "political correctness." Louis tells his story in his own words, stream of conscious-style, through the lens of the morals and ethics he learned growing up in the seediest neighborhoods of New Orleans. His casual acceptance of such things as institutionalized racism (cops who would knock blacks in the head with their "licorice sticks" if they were foolish enough to talk back), domestic violence (which went both ways - in Louis's world, the women were as dangerous as the men), prostitution (his mother and his first wife were working girls; he himself "ran" a girl for a while), and abject poverty (scavenging through trash for food and things to sell) are as important a part of the story as events he is retelling.
The story also provides some fascinating insights into New Orleans culture at the time, from the institutionalized vice of Storyville (deliberately maintained by the city as a profit center) to the seedy honky-tonks that serviced levee workers, pimps, and whores; from the railroad tracks where his mom harvested herbs to combat TB and lockjaw (tetanus being a constant presence in a neighborhood where no one could afford shoes), to the turpentine factories that ripped away the linings of workers' lungs; from the "Colored Waifs Home" where Louis was incarcerated (no trial, no conviction - just an indefinite sentence until such time as his family could manage to round up a white person to vouch for him), to the endless stream of funerals, picnics, balls, and street parades that gave birth to a generation of brilliant jazz musicians.
Seriously, if you're interested in learning more about the life of Louis Armstrong, this should be included in your "must read" pile. While this self-serving autobiography almost surely sugar-coats or omits all manner of traumas, you won't want to miss out on this opportunity to hear Louis tell his story in his own words, though his own chosen filters.… (altro)