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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up on how we got here, here are links to Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series, each one jam-packed with previously unpublished photos by Maynard Frank Wolfe.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Last week, we began a new series devoted to Maynard Frank Wolfe’s unpublished photos and the backstories behind the second Timex All-Star Jazz Show, which was broadcast live on CBS television on April 30, 1958.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”

Last week, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of Louis Armstrong’s historic tour of Prague with a packed post featuring audio, videos, photos, newspaper clippings, and other artifacts from our Archives and from around the internet. But there was a big chunk of our collection that we held back: the photographs of Ivan Englich. Who wasContinue reading ““To Remember Your Visit in Prague”: A 60th Anniversary Photographic Celebration”

60 years ago this week, Louis Armstrong performed behind the Iron Curtain for the first time, opening a concert run at Lucerna Hall in Prague, located in what was then known as Czechoslovakia. Radio Prague International has already kicked off the 60th anniversary celebration with this terrific piece, which we urge you to check out.Continue reading ““Hallo Satchmo!”: 60th Anniversary Celebration of Louis Armstrong’s 1965 Tour of Prague”

We have spent several weeks putting together five packed posts featuring hundreds of photographs Maynard Frank Wolfe took during the rehearsal of the fourth Timex All-Star Jazz Show in January 1959 (you can now access all the posts in this series HERE). With the rehearsals out of the way, it is time to actually shareContinue reading “Timex All-Star Jazz Show Celebration Part 6: The Broadcast and Aftermath”