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Our previous post ended with Louis Armstrong and His All Stars going back on the road on October 12, 1967, doing a string of one-nighters before winding up in Chicago towards the end of the month with a few days off. Coincidentally, Jack Bradley would be in Chicago at the same time! “I’ll never forgetContinue reading ““The Greatest Photo Taker”: Remembering Jack Bradley Part 35–Chicago October 1967″

Our previous post was centered on a 25th wedding anniversary party Louis and Lucille Armstrong threw at their Corona, Queens home on October 7, 1967, but it also dealt with the release of two immortal Armstrong records that hit the market in September 1967: the Decca LP reissue (with influential liner notes by Dan Morgenstern)Continue reading ““The Greatest Photo Taker”: Remembering Jack Bradley Part 34–Brunswick Session and Tonight Show Taping October 1967″

At the end of our last post, Louis Armstrong wrote a rollicking four-page letter to Jack Bradley and Jeann “Roni” Failows from Reno, Nevada in September 1967, shortly before ending up in the hospital for a few days with his second bout of pneumonia of the year. Around this same time, Decca Records released oneContinue reading ““The World’s Greatest Photo Taker”: Remembering Jack Bradley Part 33–“Rare Items,” “What a Wonderful World,” and Corona Anniversary Party 1967″

This is the third, and final, post of our three-part series on Louis Armstrong’s August 1967 engagement at Caesar’s Monticello in Framingham, Massachusetts. If you’d like to catch up, Part 1 focused on photos Jack Bradley took of Armstrong, his sidemen, and entourage at the Monticello Motel, while Part 2 was stuffed with dozens ofContinue reading ““The Greatest Photo Taker”: Remembering Jack Bradley Part 32–Funny Girl Cast Party and Reno Letter 1967″

Last month, we set the scene for Louis Armstrong’s August 1967 engagement at Caesar’s Monticello in Framingham, Massachusetts with a post about Louis and his entourage’s stay at the Monticello Motel, aided and abetted by several dozen photos snapped by Jack Bradley. Today, we will continue the saga but this time will focus on theContinue reading ““The Greatest Photo Taker”: Remembering Jack Bradley Part 31–Caesar’s Monticello 1967″

It has been entirely too long since we posted an entry in our ongoing Jack Bradley series, but that’s about to change as this represents the first in a three-part examination of a Louis Armstrong engagement that took place at Caesar’s Monticello in Framingham, Massachusetts in August 1967. First, a little recap. In April 1967,Continue reading ““The Greatest Photo Taker”: Remembering Jack Bradley Part 30–Framingham Motel 1967″

Things have been a little quiet over here on our “That’s My Home” site but they’ve been anything but over in Corona, Queens: on July 6, 2023, the Louis Armstrong Center opened for business right across the street from the Louis Armstrong House Museum! A week earlier, we held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newContinue reading “The Louis Armstrong Center is Open!”

Anniversaries don’t come much bigger than this one, folks. 100 years ago today, on April 5, 1923, seven African American jazz musicians entered a ramshackle shed located near the railroad tracks in Richmond, Indiana and made their very first recordings for the Gennett label. Yes, for our purposes, we especially celebrate these historic sides becauseContinue reading ““I Always Played Pretty Under Him”: The King Oliver Creole Jazz Band Centennial Celebration!”

We’ve reached the conclusion of what has been a very well-received miniseries on Jack Bradley’s photos of Louis Armstrong rehearsing in June 1967 for a Kraft Music Hall television show appearance with Herb Alpert. In part one, we covered the initial meetings and rehearsals with Armstrong, Alpert, their respective bands–the All Stars and the TijuanaContinue reading ““The Greatest Photo Taker”: Remembering Jack Bradley Part 29–Kraft Music Hall Final Rehearsal and Broadcast”

In our last post, we set the scene for Louis Armstrong’s appearance on an episode of the Kraft Music Hall that was hosted by Herb Alpert and broadcast in September 1967. That earlier post was filled with dozens of photographs taken during the first two rehearsals that took place for the taping. Today, we actuallyContinue reading ““The Greatest Photo Taker”: Remembering Jack Bradley Part 28–Kraft Music Hall Session and Studio Photos”