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Satchmo SummerFest Come Celebrate the life of Louis Armstrong with a fun-filled weekend of activities and music with four stages all located within the Old US Mint including: Traditional Jazz Stage, Contemporary Jazz Stage, and a Brass Band Stage; Plus a Children's Stage located at the US Mint as well as all of our speaker seminars with nationally renowned speakers. We also have many special events...
Two instances. When Leonard Bernstein was to meet the Pope, one of his friends reminded him, 'Remember, the ring, not the lips.' When Louis Armstrong met the Pope, the Pope asked if he and his wife had children. Armstrong said, 'No, pops, but we're still wailin.'' Terry Teachout, who has finished his Armstrong biography, assures me the latter story is both apocryphal, and true to character.
THE CHICAGO JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND LOUIS ARMSTRONG SUMMER JAZZ CAMP SEND STUDENTS TO NEW ORLEANS AS LOUIS ARMSTRONG LEGACY PROGRAM AND CELEBRATION PRIZE CJE Artistic Director Jon Faddis Selected Six Area Public School Students to Attend Jazz Camp July 14 - August 1 in New Orleans CHICAGO - Six students from Chicago Public Schools are enjoying the three-week Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp in...
He's performed with the greats, like Frank, Ella and Louis Armstrong During the 1940s, bassist George James "Buddy" Catlett roamed the streets of Seattle as a teenager, performing with such future luminaries as trumpeter Quincy Jones and pianist Ray Charles. "Seattle was one of the hottest cities in America," Jones said, adding that he and Catlett often performed three clubs a night together, finishing...
Few signs of it remain. But 65 years ago, it was Utah's third-largest community. Movie stars toured it regularly. Harry Truman visited. Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole played to huge crowds here. So did the Metropolitan Opera's star baritone of the day.
Five years ago, my musing for this parasha was entitled "I Still Get Zealous", the title being a pun on the Jules Styne/Sammy Cahn song "I Still Get Jealous" from "High Button Shoes" (though oddly, it was Louis Armstrong's version that catapulted the song to fame.) I'm spinning this new musing off of that earlier musing, using some of its thoughts, but from a rather different vantage point. In an odd...
Jazz pianist GERALD WIGGINS has died in hospital after a long battle with illness. The 86 year old, who performed alongside Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter and Roy Eldridge, among others, and became Marilyn Monroe’s vocal coach died on Sunday (13Jul08). Monroe once gave him a photo autographed with, "For Gerry. I can’t make a sound without you. [...]
Gerald Wiggins, a jazz pianist whose long career embraced numerous recordings with his trio, performances with Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Roy Eldridge, Zoot Sims, accompaniment for Lena Horne and Nat "King" Cole, and vocal coaching for Marilyn Monroe, has died. He was 86. Wiggins died Sunday morning at Encino-Tarzana Medical Center, where he had spent the last six weeks. According to his wife,...
Just the other day the Iraqi government approved allowing several big OIL corporations from the United States to set up shop in Iraq and start exporting Iraqi oil back to the United States. Isn't this what the Iraq War was all about in the first place? President Bush and Vice President Cheney were in the oil business before ending up in the White House and starting a war with Iraq under the false premise...
There is still an Iraq War going on even though the media in the United States would make you think the U.S. has won the war. Not so. Every single day there are more car bombings and more violence and there appears to be no end in sight. This video, with a song by Louis Armstrong, captures the essence of the Iraq War. Some of the scenes are very graphic, but there is no other way to tell the story...
"Summer time, and the livin' is easy ..." (Wanna listen while reading? Open the Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong classic in another window. For optimal effect, listen to birds singing at the same time!) Okay, now that we're, um, in the mood, let's skip the birds and move straight to the bees, you know, honey bees.
"The roots of the band germinated in the early 1940's when some of us at the Disney Studio used to gather in my office at lunchtime to listen to my records of such jazz legends as King Oliver, Baby Dodds, Jelly Roll Morton, and Louis Armstrong. Since most of our little nucleus of old-time jazz lovers had played various musical instruments back in school, we decided to really get into the spirit of...
Today is the centennial anniversary of the birth of Louis Jordan. Jordan is the link from the birth of jazz and the big band swing era to rock 'n' roll, from Louis Armstrong (with whom he recorded some duets) to Chuck Berry and Little Richard. Having touched everyone from Ray Charles to Prince, Jordan deserves a hearing in his own right. Between 1942 and 1951 he recorded an astounding 57 rhythm and...
