Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 86-90

Virtual Exhibit • August 31, 2022

Last time out, we featured the first installment in this series that included no collages at all, just Armstrong putting new reel numbers on the original boxes. We made up […]

Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 81-85

Virtual Exhibit • August 26, 2022

Louis’s listening habits have been all over the place in the last couple of entries of this series, with a bunch of Broadway and film soundtracks, pop music from The […]

Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 76-80

Virtual Exhibit • August 22, 2022

In our previous installment of this series, Louis finally started moving away from dubs of his own recordings and started listening to music old (Fats Waller, Jimmie Lunceford) and new […]

Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 71-75

Virtual Exhibit • August 19, 2022

We’ll open with a plug for our previous entry in this series, as it set up the recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral and Armstrong’s January 13, 1970 […]

Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 66-70

Virtual Exhibit • August 16, 2022

The last several posts in this series have been filled with dubs of Armstrong’s own recordings (I still might make good on my threat to create a playlist that mirrors […]

Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 61-65

Virtual Exhibit • August 12, 2022

In our last post on the tapes Louis Armstrong made between 1969 and 1971, Louis was deep in the middle of a run of listening to his own music–something that […]

Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 56-60

Virtual Exhibit • July 29, 2022

This is the latest post in our ongoing series analyzing the reel-to-reel tapes Louis Armstrong made between 1969 and 1971–catch up on the whole series here and see below for […]

Louis Armstrong’s 1969-1971 Tapes: Reels 51-55

Virtual Exhibit • July 22, 2022

Back in 2020, we started a series on this site devoted to the reel-to-reel tapes Louis Armstrong made between getting out of the hospital in the spring of 1969 and […]