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• in TV
  PBS Offers Big Band Vocalists (My Music) in March
  Witness the greatest singers of the 1940s at the dawn of their careers.
  by missbobetier / on Feb 27, 2012
• in Entertainment
  Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
  Fodor’s New Orleans 2012 is a comprehensive guide to the Big Easy and all its attractions.
  by missbobetier / on Dec 16, 2011
• in Music
  Music Review: Mac Gollehon - Mac Straight Ahead
  A brilliant tour de force for virtuoso trumpet man, Mac Gollehon.
  by fcetier / on Jan 2, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “louis armstrong”

 

• Readers ask about Louis Armstrong toy & Ford Model T

  
  Auction Finds ... and the stories behind them — Authority: 107
  Fridays at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do some preliminary research to get them started. So, these are market values based on prices I find on the web, not appraisal ...
  5 days ago

• 10 most influential Jazz artists in history

  
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    Originating at the beginning of the 20th century, the art of Jazz took shape in its early years in the southern states of the US. Its distinct use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrythyms and the like have characterized it with its African American roots.  As the style developed and spread across the globe, many ...
  6 days ago

• Louis Armstrong serenades the pyramids

  
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  By Jack Brummet, Music Ed. In 1961, Louis Armstrong was on a State Dept. tour of the middle east.  He and his wife Lucille stopped by the pyramids, and he broke out his horn, for a "photo op" no doubt. . .nonetheless, a great photo. ---o0o---
  6 days ago

• Prices Are Right for Queens Culture During New York State Museum Week

  
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  It’s New York State Museum Week, and the living is easy, especially in Queens. Starting today through June 16, five local cultural venues will offer discounts and promotional offers to visitors. Mention “Museum Week” and receive a complimentary collectible at the Louis Armstrong House Museum (while supplies ...
  1 week ago

• A GATHERING OF GIANTS: LOUIS, SIDNEY, LIONEL, BUDDY and FRIENDS

  
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  This photograph from the Burt Goldblatt collection was recently for sale on eBay.  Sidney Catlett, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Buddy Rich . . . and presumably members of Lionel’s big band, (guitarist Billy Mackel over Sid’s shoulder) —  the scene is apparently the middle-to-late Forties.  Louis is taking ...
  1 week ago

• Surprising high school dropouts

  
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  Some of these high school drop outs you may find very surprising. It just goes to show that life certainly isn’t finished if you do drop out. Here are a few well know drop outs. They did just fine for themselves! An english singer actress from surrey - julie andrews jazz musician nicknamed pops - louis ...
  1 week ago

• GENEROSITIES OF JULY 1975 / 1976, NICE JAZZ FESTIVAL: EARL HINES, BOBBY HACKETT, VIC DICKENSON, BARNEY BIGARD, BENNY CARTER, JOE VENUTI, RED NORVO, GEORGE DUVIVIER, BOBBY ROSENGARDEN, HARLEY WHITE, EDDIE GRAHAM

  
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  Then and now, jazz critics to look scornfully on “all-star” sets at concerts.  Some of the musicians play to the crowd; solos go on too long or were rushed; tempos were brisk; the repertoire simplified; the gatherings weren’t always well-planned. But now, nearly forty years after this jam session at the Nice ...
  2 weeks ago

• Britney Spears Looking COCKEYED Deplaning

  
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  Britney Spears looking beyond tired as she jumped off a plane at the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans. She needs more than some shuteye.. I’m told raising kids can cause this condition..
  2 weeks ago

• Honoring Our Civil Rights Heroes

  
  White House.gov Blog — Authority: 720
  Fifty years ago, America was in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. Countless men and women demonstrated, protested, sacrificed, and bled for their right to be treated equally. In the last two weeks, we remembered a few of these heroes at the White House. Visit with Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of Medgar Evers ...
  2 weeks ago

• THANK YOU, MARTY NAPOLEON — CELEBRATING HIS BIRTHDAY

  
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  On Sunday, June 2, 2013, pianist /singer / composer / raconteur Marty Napoleon turns 92.  He is still creating music, still ebullient, with a sharp-edged wit and an eagerness for new experiences: Marty doesn’t simply reside in the past. But oh! — what a past.  Here are some examples from YouTube — and they ...
  2 weeks ago

• LOVE IN BLOOM AT BIRDLAND: DAN BLOCK / JAMES CHIRILLO (May 8, 2013)

  
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  May 8, 2013, was a special day in jazz lore — although the mainstream jazz media didn’t pay it any attention: the fourteenth anniversary of David Ostwald’s Wednesday early-evening gig at Birdland with the band once called the Gully Low Jazz Band, then the Louis Armstrong Centennial Band, now (appropriately) the ...
  3 weeks ago

• United 497 emergency landing investigation remains open two years later

  
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  More than two years after United Airlines Flight 497s emergency landing at Louis Armstrong International Airport, amid reports of smoke filling the jets cockpit and the electricity and instrumentation blinking, federal investigators still havent determined what caused the mishap. In...
  3 weeks ago

• GLIMPSES OF THE GRAIL, 1949

  
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  We love the music we have — the wooden boxes of phonograph records and cassettes, the wall shelves of CDs, the iPods with thousands of songs.  But our hearts beat faster for those things imagined but not realized.  Poring over discographies, we breathe faster when reading of unissued takes, the performances ...
  4 weeks ago

• Satchmo’s Sowetan Song

  
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  A woman is reflected in a window as she walks past a painting of American jazz trumpeter, Louis Armstrong, painted by contemporary artist, Berthold Moyo at the Soweto Fine Art Gallery in Hyde Park, Johannesburg. The gallery only showcases art originating from Soweto. May 2013
  4 weeks ago

• GIVE IMPERFECTION A BIG HUG

  
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  I can’t forget the story that Bob Wilber tells in his memoir ( MUSIC WAS NOT ENOUGH , published by Oxford University Press) of his time in the mid-Fifties Eddie Condon band.  Bob recalls that he was then trying to construct every solo so that it was all perfect.  One night Condon, somewhat intoxicated, leaned over ...
  4 weeks ago

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