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Way back in 2020–five years ago this month to be exact–we began a series exploring the scrapbooks Louis Armstrong compiled between 1969 and 1971. The ailing Armstrong had been in intensive care twice in less than a year and doctor’s forbade him from going back out on the road. With time to spend relaxing inContinue reading “Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Scrapbooks: Scrapbook 3”

Lately, our posts have been centered around major milestones in Louis Armstrong’s life, such as the OKeh Records Cabaret and Style Show of 1926 or the recording of Satch Plays Fats from 1955. Today, we’re celebrating something on a smaller scale, something that even the most hardened Armstrong fan isn’t familiar with, but we thinkContinue reading ““Music Has No Age”: Louis Armstrong on “Wide, Wide World” and the Voice of America, June 1955″

Louis Armstrong recorded the immortal LP Satch Plays Fats in 1955–70 years ago! We’re a little late for the anniversary of the recording dates, which occurred on April 26, 27, and May 3, and we’re a little earl for the anniversary of the release, which took place in August 1955, but is there ever aContinue reading ““Satch Plays Fats”: A 70th Anniversary Celebration!”

On June 12, 1926–99 years ago this week–the Chicago Coliseum hosted OKeh Records’ “Cabaret and Style Show,” featuring one of the greatest aggregations of Black talent in the history of show business. Sound like hyperbole? The ad for it appears at the top of this page, as saved in one of Louis and Lil Armstrong’sContinue reading ““Some Jazz Band, I Tell ‘Em So”: OKeh’s Cabaret and Style Show, June 12, 1926″

[Above photo taken by Yuzo Sato, May 1970.] Welcome to the 200th post on the Louis Armstrong House Museum’s “That’s My Home” site! Thank you for visiting and for supporting this endeavor, which was born somewhat out of necessity but which we feel has turned into something special. “That’s My Home” launched on March 27,Continue reading “200th Post Celebration!”

We’ve finally reached showtime, the live broadcast of the second Timex All-Star Jazz Show on April 30, 1958. If you’d like to catch up on how we got here, here are links to Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series, each one jam-packed with previously unpublished photos by Maynard Frank Wolfe. BeforeContinue reading “Second Timex All-Star Jazz Show Celebration: The Final Broadcast”

Welcome back to our series on the second Timex All-Star Jazz Show of April 30, 1958. In case you’re just joining us, here links to Part 1 and Part 2, which covered initial studio rehearsals featuring the likes of Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Chubby Jackson, George Shearing, Ruby Braff, Jack Teagarden, Jaye P.Continue reading “Second Timex All-Star Jazz Show Celebration: The Rehearsals, Part 3”

Last week, we began a new series devoted to Maynard Frank Wolfe’s unpublished photos and the backstories behind the second Timex All-Star Jazz Show, which was broadcast live on CBS television on April 30, 1958. In that initial post, we closed with photos of Louis Armstrong rehearsing with his All Stars and pointed out thatContinue reading “Second Timex All-Star Jazz Show Celebration: The Rehearsals, Part 2”

By popular demand, we’re back today to begin a new series of posts devoted to the second Timex All-Star Jazz Show, as broadcast on April 30, 1958. For those who might have missed it, back in January we posted a six-part series on the fourth and final Timex All-Star Jazz Show from January 7, 1959,Continue reading “Second Timex All-Star Jazz Show Celebration: The Rehearsals, Part 1”

Jack Bradley, Louis’s Armstrong’s close friend, personal photographer, and greatest collector, passed away four years ago today, on March 21, 2021, at the age of 87. In the days after his passing, I began writing what I thought would be a single tribute post to my late friend–but it soon became the start of aContinue reading ““The Greatest Photo Taker”: Remembering Jack Bradley Party 57–Life After Louis”