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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.8.11 |
Title |
[Scrapbook 11] |
Object Type |
Scrapbook |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scrapbook belonging to Louis and/or Lucille Armstrong. Compiled by a news service. Contents include: News clippings about Louis during 1941; reviews of Louis live in Memphis, at Connie's Inn in New York, the Grand Terrace in Chicago and more ; record reviews; Louis Armstrong big band personnel changes; Louis's 25th anniversary as a trumpeter announcements; plans for Orson Welles to make a movie about Louis, starring Louis; Louis gives his opinion on Roy Eldridge; Harry James lists Louis as his favorite trumpeter; photograph of Louis and George Wettling; notices about Columbia Records's reissues of Armstrong's 1920s recordings; Benny Goodman's opinion on Louis; notices about bassist Hayes Alvis joining Louis; rare "Downbeat" photo of Louis's band at the Sunset Cafe in 1927 with Earl Hines, Honore Dutrey, Tubby Hall and others; review of Louis's record of "Marie" with the Mills Brothers; article on Louis raiding Coleman Hawkins's band for three musicians, Lawrence Lucie, Johnny Williams and Bill Dillard; August 1941 "Metronome" story by Harry James about Louis being more influential than Bix Beiderbecke; August 15, 1941 "Downbeat" article by Louis about Bunk Johnson recently sitting in with Louis in New Iberia, Louisiana and how younger musicians are better trained but older musicians were better "soloists and individualists" (article includes photo of Louis with Tiny Parham at the organ); September 1941 "Music and Rhythm" article by Leonard Feather, "'I Never Tried To Be God,' Cries Louis"; September 1, 1941 "Downbeat" article quoting a letter from Louis in which he discusses his six favorite trumpeters (Bunny Berigan, Harry James, Roy Eldridge, Shelton "Scad" Hemphill, Frank Galbreath and Jean Prince; includes a sidebar on Berigan's reaction); column where Louis discusses Bix Beiderbecke; blurbs about Louis going on a nine-day diet to prepare for the film about his life; articles about Lil Hardin Armstrong being snubbed from Louis's biopic; notices about Sid Catlett rejoining Armstrong on drums; praise of Louis by Vladimir Goldschmann, conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; profile on Armstrong vocalist Sonny Woods; "Billboard" column by Joe Glaser; and much more. |
People |
Alvis, Hayes Armstrong, Lil Hardin Beiderbecke, Bix Berigan, Bunny Glaser, Joe Catlett, Sid Dillard, Bill Dutrey, Honore Eldridge, Roy Feather, Leonard Galbreath, Frank Goldschmann, Vladimir Goodman, Benny Hall, Tubby Hamphill, Shelton Hawkins, Coleman Hines, Earl James, Harry Johnson, Bunk Lucie, Lawrence Parham, Tiny Prince, Jean Welles, Orson Wettling, George Williams, Johnny Wolff, Leon Woods, Sonny |
Search Terms |
Scrapbooks Assembled by Louis or Lucille Armstrong |
Year Range from |
1941 |
Year Range to |
1941 |
Accession number |
1987.8 |
Condition date |
2010-09-02 |