Louis Armstrong
Biography
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performance.
With his instantly recognizable deep and distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly skilled at scat singing, vocalizing using sounds and syllables instead of actual lyrics.
Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general.
Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over," whose skin-color was secondary to his amazing talent in an America that was severely racially divided. It allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society that were highly restricted for a person of color. While he rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, he was privately a huge supporter of the Civil Rights movement in America.
Acting (78 movies)
Ex-Flame
1930
Benny Goodman - Adventures In The Kingdom Of Swing
1993
Saluti e baci
1953
High Society
1956
Paris Blues
1961
The Beat Generation
1959
Going Places
1938
Kærlighedens melodi
1959
A Song Is Born
1948
The Five Pennies
1959
The Glenn Miller Story
1954
Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong
1992
Louis Armstrong: Live in Australia
1964
The Strip
1951
Cabin in the Sky
1943
Birth of the Blues
1941
Dark Eyes
2021
Pillow to Post
1945
Why America
1970
La Paloma
1959
Louis Armstrong: Live in '59
2006
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
2008
On the Road with Duke Ellington
1974
Jam Session
1944
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
Atlantic City
1944
Pennies from Heaven
1936
Glory Alley
1952
Satchmo the Great
1957
Doctor Rhythm
1938
A Man Called Adam
1966
Louis Armstrong: The Louis Armstrong Show
2005
Shine
1942
I'm in the Revue
1950
Swingin' on Nothin'
1942
The Story Of The Blues
2004
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
Hello, Dolly!
1969
Auf Wiedersehen
1961
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
1932
The Sound of 007
2022
Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires
2022
Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection
2005
København, Kalundborg og -?
1934
…Sings Musicals
2012
Artists & Models
1937
The Harlem Renaissance
2004
New Orleans
1947
Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer
2006
Here Comes the Groom
1951
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
2014
The Magic of Bing Crosby
1991
Every Day's a Holiday
1937
Louis Armstrong: 100th Anniversary 1901-2001
2001
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
1993
A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
1932
Show-Business at War
1943
The Jazz Ambassadors
2018
Disneyland After Dark
1962
Jazz Evolution
2008
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
Jazz Ball
1956
The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
1993
It's Black Entertainment
2002
Music Inn
2007
Jazz on a Summer's Day
1960
Louis Armstrong - Live In Stockholm 1962
2007
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999
The Edsel Show
1957
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
1982
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
2014
Året var 1955
2005
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958
Louis Armstrong & Benny Goodman - Sounds in Motion
2000
Swing With Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Tony Bennett
2001
The Day of the Oath
1965
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