Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars.

Format:

Video

Series:

RTBF Archives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz.

African American Music.

United States and Canada.

African Americans.

Local Subjects:

Jazz.

African American Music.

United States and Canada.

African Americans.

Genre:

Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (53 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Back in the sixties, it was fashionable to denigrate Louis Armstrong. People never failed to point out his Uncle Tomism, a certain vaudevillian exhibitionism that it would be unseemly not to acknowledge. But one can’t ignore the fact that he was an artist whose mere presence onstage brought with it a healthy dose of joyfulness and humanistic sharing, something that Manu Dibango never fails to point out in interviews. We mustn’t ever forget that Satchmo was the first true jazz soloist, a trumpet player with an incomparable tone and sumptuous vibrato, bringing out rich subtleties in his ballads and exhibiting a vitality that seemed unstoppable. An inimitable singer, he transfigured everything: C’est si bon, Mack the Knife, When the Saints Go Marching In… Jack Teagarden and Barney Bigard are no longer there in his All-Stars, but Billy Kyle is notably present. Philippe Lesage

Notes:

Performed Ancienne Belgique

Title from resource description page (viewed July 15, 2024).