Louis Armstrong

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Age

125

Movies

Born: August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971
From: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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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.

Works

91 films

Hello, Dolly!

19697.0

High Society

19566.8

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

20226.5

Paris Blues

19616.5

The Glenn Miller Story

19547.0

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

20247.7

Saluti e baci

19535.5

The Sound of 007

20227.3

That's Entertainment, Part II

19767.0

The World of Polygoon

1994

A Song Is Born

19486.4

Jazz Evolution

20086.0

The Five Pennies

19596.9

Bing Crosby: Rediscovered

20147.0

Going Places

19386.6

The Strip

19515.9

It's Black Entertainment

20028.7

Bert Stern - Original Madman

20117.6

Shine

1942

The Beat Generation

19595.1

Cabin in the Sky

19436.5

Auf Wiedersehen

196110.0

Pennies from Heaven

19367.2

The All-Star Christmas Show

19586.0

New Orleans

19476.6

A Man Called Adam

19666.5

Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet

19829.0

Here Comes the Groom

19515.4

Show-Business at War

19437.0

Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer

20065.0

The Story Of The Blues

20044.2

København, Kalundborg og -?

19346.3

Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal

2019

Louis Armstrong v Praze

1965

Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires

20228.8

When the Boys Meet the Girls

19654.8

A Rhapsody in Black and Blue

19326.2

I'm in the Revue

19505.3

Artists & Models

19376.3

Atlantic City

19446.3

Jazz on a Summer's Day

19607.3

Doctor Rhythm

19387.5

Louis Armstrong: The Louis Armstrong Show

2005

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

199710.0

The Harlem Renaissance

20046.0

The Magic of Bing Crosby

1991

Louis Armstrong: Live in Australia

1964

Pillow to Post

19455.5

Dark Eyes

2021

Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong

19927.0

Glory Alley

19525.9

Berlin-Melodie

196310.0

Louis Armstrong: 100th Anniversary 1901-2001

2001

Disneyland After Dark

19627.0

Louis Armstrong: Live in '59

2006

Every Day's a Holiday

19375.8

…Sings Musicals

20127.0

Birth of the Blues

19416.2

La Paloma

19595.5

Sleepy Time Down South

1942

Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love

20037.0

Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music

19937.5

The Edsel Show

19579.0

I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You

19326.4

Kærlighedens melodi

19596.2

The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years

1993

The Jazz Ambassadors

20187.0

Jazz Ball

19568.0

Satchmo the Great

19576.5

Jam Session

19447.0

Music Inn

200710.0

The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best

2009

Jazz Legends in Their Own Words

2014

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

1999

The Day of the Oath

1965

Hallo Satchmo

19658.0

Rhein-Melodie - Wein, Gesang und gute Laune

1966

Året var 1955

20055.0

Ex-Flame

19309.0

Swingin' on Nothin'

19427.0

Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection

2005

Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong

20088.5

Why America

1970

Louis Armstrong & Benny Goodman - Sounds in Motion

2000

Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen

1934

On the Road with Duke Ellington

1974

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis & Ella and Louis Again

2013

Louis Armstrong - Live In Stockholm 1962

20077.0

Swing With Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Tony Bennett

2001

Louis Armstrong in Concert

2021

Benny Goodman - Adventures In The Kingdom Of Swing

19937.0