1901-08-04 ( 123 years old ) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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.
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Movies
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024-09-11
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022-10-27
The Sound of 007
2022-10-04
Dark Eyes
2021-12-31
Louis Armstrong in Concert
2021-08-06
The Jazz Ambassadors
2018-05-04
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
2014-12-02
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
2014-05-24
…Sings Musicals
2012-01-15
Bert Stern - Original Madman
2011-09-02
Jazz Evolution
2008-08-12
Music Inn
2007-05-03
Louis Armstrong - Live In Stockholm 1962
2007-02-20
Louis Armstrong: Live in '59
2006-06-07
Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer
2006-01-23
Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection
2005-10-25
Året var 1955
2005-01-09
Louis Armstrong: The Louis Armstrong Show
2005-01-01
The Story Of The Blues
2004-06-30
The Harlem Renaissance
2004-01-01
Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love
2003-12-15
It's Black Entertainment
2002-02-08
Louis Armstrong: 100th Anniversary 1901-2001
2001-08-04
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999-08-27
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997-01-01
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
1993-11-02
Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong
1992-01-01
The Magic of Bing Crosby
1991-10-29
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
1982-12-25
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976-05-16
On the Road with Duke Ellington
1974-12-31
Why America
1970-04-08
Hello, Dolly!
1969-12-12
A Man Called Adam
1966-03-16
Rhein-Melodie - Wein, Gesang und gute Laune
1966-02-06
When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965-10-10
Hallo Satchmo
1965-04-30
Louis Armstrong v Praze
1965-01-01
Louis Armstrong: Live in Australia
1964-01-01
Berlin-Melodie
1963-03-31
Disneyland After Dark
1962-04-15
Auf Wiedersehen
1961-12-22
Paris Blues
1961-09-27
Jazz on a Summer's Day
1960-03-28
Kærlighedens melodi
1959-08-03
La Paloma
1959-07-23
The Beat Generation
1959-07-03
The Five Pennies
1959-06-18
The Edsel Show
1957-10-13
Satchmo the Great
1957-10-04
High Society
1956-07-17
Jazz Ball
1956-01-01
The Glenn Miller Story
1954-01-04
Saluti e baci
1953-08-13
Glory Alley
1952-06-06
Here Comes the Groom
1951-09-20
The Strip
1951-08-31
I'm in the Revue
1950-02-18
A Song Is Born
1948-10-19
New Orleans
1947-04-18
Pillow to Post
1945-06-09
Atlantic City
1944-09-15
Jam Session
1944-04-13
Show-Business at War
1943-05-21
Cabin in the Sky
1943-03-24
Sleepy Time Down South
1942-10-31
Shine
1942-06-01
Swingin' on Nothin'
1942-01-01
Birth of the Blues
1941-11-07
Going Places
1938-12-31
Doctor Rhythm
1938-05-06
Every Day's a Holiday
1937-12-18
Artists & Models
1937-08-04
Pennies from Heaven
1936-11-25
København, Kalundborg og -?
1934-08-20
Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen
1934-01-01
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
1932-11-25
A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
1932-03-20
Ex-Flame
1930-11-19
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