Incredible chops for a 62 year-old horn player, who played 300 nights a year until very close to the end. And every show he gave what we see here - 100%. If I could get one note right for every 100 Louis blew, I would be happy. We won't see his like again. I think it was Benny Green who said "Anyone can learn what Louis Armstrong knows about music in a few weeks. No one could learn to play like him in a thousand years."
Classic jazz. Louis is so good, yet humble. Observe how he gives each of his fellow players a turn in the spotlight. Music is to be shared. Louis invented the jazz solo, but not just so he could receive all the plaudits. Love him forever!
I love music... and although i am 16 years old and i normally hear hip hop and techno, this is a great music! louis armstrong is one of the best musicers i have ever seen... (ps. maybe my english is bad because i come from germany)
"Musicers" - great word. Reminds me of what Armstrong contemporary Sidney Bechet called musicians - "musicianers." I think he just liked how that sounded.
Great song by him.. But I will forever be touched by his song "What a wonderful world". That song has meaning and passion... I love louis.. Wish he was here with us today to teach these new "dogs" about what music really is!
I heard my first jazz record when I was 16. It was a very scratched 78 played on a windup record player. I am 68 now but still remember the kick I got out of listening to muscrat ramble for the first time.
On this day in 1961 {October 15th} Louis Armstrong performed "Muskrat Ramble" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'... The song was originally recorded in 1926 by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five... It was composed by the Hot Five's trombone player, Edward 'Kid' Ory... Two covered versions have charted; the McGuire Sisters {#10 in 1954} and Freddy Cannon {#54 in 1961}... And Harry Connick, Jr. also covered it in his 1979 album 'Pure Dixieland'...
WOW. That was mindblowing. It's hard to believe that this was shot just 8 years before I was born. God, I'm old. None the less, what an AWESOME performance!!
WOW! This is from a two-part German TV show, "The Satchmo Story"...it was filmed May 15, 1962 and aired on October 3 (Part 2 was filmed the following day and aired May 16). I have waited to see clips from this special for years because it featured Pops playing some stuff he didn't play with the All Stars anymore ("Dippermouth Blues," "Mahogany Hall Stomp" and the already posted incredible clip of "Canal Street"). Whatever you have of this, please post it!
Thank you for getting this clip up on here, to see Armstrong in 1962 playing this with a controlled fury is amazing. He claimed he wrote the tune, though it is attributed to Kid Ory, and Sidney Bechet reckoned it was an old tune of Buddy Bolden's, called 'The Old Cow Died And The Old Man Cried'. Armstrong, Ory, Lilian Hardin, Johnny St. Cyr and Johnny Dodds first recorded this tune on 26th February 1926 in Chicago. Who is on the t-bone in this? He's damn good too!
That's very inspirational! I hate when people give up on their interests when they become seniors because they think they are going to die soon. It is never too late!
Louis' soloing here is in the highest register where even playing a simple scale will test the stamina of the average trumpet player. (I've been there, worn the t-shirt - gave up). But it's SO much more than that: if the notes of the scale are like uncooked spaghetti - hard and inflexible - Louis microwaves them into steaming hot, bendy, tasty twirls covered in bolognaise sauce...
@LucilleBall861911 > Right you are! When I need some get-up-and-go really bad I listen to his 1938 Big Band recording of Hoagy Carmichael's "Jubilee". My goodness that is one inspiring 'marching' tune!
"And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn Next stop is Vietnam. And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates, Well there ain't no time to wonder why, Whoopie! We're all gonna die!"
Its definitely Trummy Young (who was sideman to Dizzy and Parker) His style and tone is unmistakeable.Teagarden was sophisticated, melodical. Trummy is mor a frontlne agressive player,also wonderful,powerful.
Oh i see you're also 16 now :D Are you still so much interested in jazz? I just discovered Louis Armstrong and also jazz, because I had to research things about him for my music class. And now I'm so impressed, because that was really music, people had had ideas! If you compare this with what some people today call music you really get angry :D (I mean that 'music' where someone all the time says how much fun he has got in the club and with girls) ..sorry for my miserable english I'm german ;)
At some point in his career Louis started bringing along a stack of 40 white handkerchiefs to every concert, used to wipe his face and brow throughout the show. Occasionally one of the tapes will catch him tossing a damp one into the open piano or elsewhere and pick up a fresh one from the pile.
fyi down by the riverside is an old song... 'negro spiritual' if u will. the timing here seems to match with that song more or less, with Louis jazzing it up and putting a whole lot on top of it of course =)
Compare this to Armstrong's version from the 20's. This is more uptempo and swings hard unlike the old version which has a more "umpa" 1 2 feel. I guess it's 2/4 time compared to 4/4 time.
my god. why is everyone here bitching about their age. "Kiran-Aged 14"...thats nothing..."I'm 13 and i can't..." what's the point if the point you want to make is that music is timeless?
