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Our previous installment–which included six hours of audio of Louis Armstrong on the Mike Douglas Show!–ended on a cliffhanger as Louis ran out of tape on Reel 110 in the middle of dubbing an interview he did with Orson Welles. Well, we’ll cut the suspense today with the audio of that memorable show and aContinue reading “Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 111-115”

Our previous installment was a bit of a transitional one, with Louis preparing for the recording of Louis Armstrong and His Friends, re-dubbing materials from tapes sent to him by engineer Tony Janak, and copying a tape trumpeter Jimmy Owens gave him at the May 29 And His Friends recording session. But this might beContinue reading “Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 106-110”

The last few entries in this series have been stuffed with rare audio excerpts from Louis Armstrong’s tapes, especially focusing on his 1970 television talk show appearances that you won’t find anywhere else. However, today’s post represents a transitional one, with no collages and no audio to share (except for some Spotify playlists), but stillContinue reading “Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 101-105”

Before diving into today’s post, you might want to clear off your schedule for a while because unlike many of the posts in this series, today’s offering has lots of choice audio you won’t find anywhere else. (And as always, catch up on the entire series here.) Reel 96Accession Number: 1987.3.396 We’re jumping right inContinue reading “Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 96-100”

The last few installments of this ongoing series have been particularly action-packed, with lots of strong collages and audio samples from the tapes. A good example is our post on Reels 86-90 which had collages featuring Joe Glaser and the Pope (not together) and audio of Louis on both The Tonight Show and The DavidContinue reading “Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 91-95”

Last week, while continuing my ongoing series on the reel-to-reel tapes Louis Armstrong made between 1969 and 1971, I came across Reel 87, which had an interesting catalog description, written by Armstrong himself: “At Home in Corona–Statchmo [sic]–under the weather–Lucille–Claudine–Louis Panassie (THE SON OF Hugues)–Experimenting (with) the new Stereo Tape Recorder Which Lucille had InstalledContinue reading ““Satchmo Under the Weather”: Louis and Lucille Armstrong’s May 16, 1969 Tape with Louis and Claudine Panassie”

Last time out, we featured the first installment in this series that included no collages at all, just Armstrong putting new reel numbers on the original boxes. We made up for it by sharing lots of rare audio and are happy to report that the collages return today–and so will the rare audio. Let’s begin!Continue reading “Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 86-90”

Louis’s listening habits have been all over the place in the last couple of entries of this series, with a bunch of Broadway and film soundtracks, pop music from The Rascals, traditional jazz from Jimmy McPartland and Tony Parenti, and modern jazz from Woody Herman and Louie Bellson. We’ll pick up today with more likeContinue reading “Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 81-85”

In our previous installment of this series, Louis finally started moving away from dubs of his own recordings and started listening to music old (Fats Waller, Jimmie Lunceford) and new (Lara Saint Paul, music from the 1969 film Adding Machine). That trend continues today with Louis almost exclusively listening to releases from the late 60s.Continue reading “Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 76-80”

We’ll open with a plug for our previous entry in this series, as it set up the recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral and Armstrong’s January 13, 1970 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, each also featured in today’s post–AND included the audio of both! If this is your first time stumbling uponContinue reading “Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 71-75”