A month has passed since the events chronicled in our last post, a Disney recordings session of February 27, 1968, and something has changed: Louis Armstrong has now lost a […]
Lucille Wilson Armstrong was born on January 13, 1914, 110 years ago today! Previously, we did a deep dive on Lucille’s full life in this post from 2020, but for […]
Welcome to part 40 in our ongoing series chronicling the friendship between Louis Armstrong and Jack Bradley. Our last post was spent at Nola Rehearsal Studios in Manhattan in mid-February […]
Happy New Year, everyone. We’re starting 2024 just as we closed 2023, with part 39 of our ongoing series paying tribute to the friendship between Louis Armstrong and Jack Bradley. […]
In our previous post, Louis Armstrong found himself in the recording studio, struggling mightily–and eventually succeeding–to sing four songs in Italian on December 11 and 12, 1967. He’d be back […]
And now for something completely different! Has anyone out there heard Louis Armstrong sing in Italian? If you have, consider yourself a die-hard Pops fan, but if you haven’t, you’ve […]
Our previous post dealt with a memorable few days Louis Armstrong spent making the rounds with Jack Bradley in Chicago in late October 1967. In it, we discussed a mysterious […]
Our previous post ended with Louis Armstrong and His All Stars going back on the road on October 12, 1967, doing a string of one-nighters before winding up in Chicago […]
Our previous post was centered on a 25th wedding anniversary party Louis and Lucille Armstrong threw at their Corona, Queens home on October 7, 1967, but it also dealt with […]
At the end of our last post, Louis Armstrong wrote a rollicking four-page letter to Jack Bradley and Jeann “Roni” Failows from Reno, Nevada in September 1967, shortly before ending […]
