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The Jazz Ambassadors

as Self (archive footage)

2018
Bert Stern: Original Madman

as Self (archive footage)

2011
Louis Armstrong: Live in '59

as Trumpet, Vocal

2006
When the Boys Meet the Girls

as Louise Armstrong

1965
Paris Blues

as Wild Man Moore

1961
The Five Pennies

as Louis Armstrong

1959
The Beat Generation

as Louis Armstrong

1959
High Society

as Self

1956
Glory Alley

as Shadow Johnson

1952
The Strip

as Himself

1951
A Song Is Born

as Louis Armstrong

1948
New Orleans

as Himself

1947
Jam Session

as Himself

1944
Atlantic City

as Himself

1944
Cabin in the Sky

as The Trumpeter

1943
Going Places

as Gabe

1938
Pennies from Heaven

as Henry

1936
Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong

Birthday

1901-08-04

Place of Birth

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Louis Armstrong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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