Louis Armstrong --Struttin with some barbecue

[firetape]

Cool...Portillo's music.

[hardlawd]

penis

[RoarrFTW]

I wish all contemporary music of today had soul like Armstrong!

[alfzampi]

Proud to say that Marty is my cousin and still playing at 90.

Al Zampieri Lewes,De.

[fillra01]

Excellent!! The "michaelminn armstrong" discography states: Saluti E Baci / La Route Du Bonheur (film) October 26 or 28, 1952, Rome, Italy Struttin' With Some Barbecue Louis Armstrong (Trpt) Trummy Young (Trobn) Bob McCracken (Clt) Marty Napoleon (Pno) Arvell Shaw (Bss) Cozy Cole (Drms) Also an appearance by Velma Middleton, the band's singer/ An Italian film also known as 'La Route du bonheur' in France and 'The Road to Happiness' when distributed in English-speaking countries.

[AlecTaylor666]

Love the entrance!

[TheRealmsOfGold]

Holy crap, they can play. The bass solo is terrific.

[dixiejazz1]

My all time favorite Louis Armstong song! ( It was written by his second wife - the great Lil Hardin, who at one time played the piano for the Joe " King" Oliver band. It was there that they met in the early 1920s. Although the marriage did not last, they remained life long friends.) I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. DMM

[zeitgeistmonger]

My daddy was a butcher, my mama had the meat, now I am just a little hot dog running down the street.... If I could find a barbecue into this kinda music, I definitely would be sturttin' with it and cuttin' the meat as well ;P

[massimo2ooo]

anyone know where this aired?

[MsRedwaller]

3 people have never eaten barbeque

[gus191103]

what it this from

[bbbb111cccc]

It's almost like as if the instruments are singing themselves. =D

[massimo2ooo]

I watch this video every single day never gets old.

notice how the one white guy in the band never gets a solo, the clarinet player.

[lamontlewis]

@massimo2ooo That's because at that time, it was mandated that the appearance of black musicians on television have a white musician in the group, who just stood there and pretended. This is how intense racism was. Except for Benny Goodman's open acceptance of Lionel Hampton, no white band was under such pressure to place a black musician in the band. Being muscians, this is what my parents had to put up with their entire careers. And you wonder why drugs were so prominent.

[zeitgeistmonger]

@lamontlewis It was never "mandated" that a white musician play with black musicians in order for them to be on television. In fact it was frowned upon and seen as the end of a white musician's career if they were seen publicly playing or even recorded with a black band during this period. The white musicians that did play with black bands risked everything for the sake of music and helped break down the barriers of racism that society had created.

[massimo2ooo]

I watch this video every single day never gets old.



[parageusia]

Ella Fitzgerald is so cool she doesn't even have to sing!

[russellmania37]

@parageusia You're right, Ella was way cool...however she does not appear on this clip!

[dublcheez]

3 people listen to modern music

[cctrunner6]

If watching this doesn't make you happy you have no soul

[stalzz]

There's nobody like Pops! I love this!

[cavallodelmare]

0:34 u just walkin ur baby there? k, thats cool!

[josepharchbold]

How do they remember their own solo's, they put so many notes into it X_X

[scorp04]

@josepharchbold

The same way you remember how to tell a story of something that happened to you.

[scorp04]

@josepharchbold

The same way you remember how to tell a story of something that happened to you; sometimes the details might be different, but you still remember the jist of the story!

[duckdaotsu]

Cozy Cole my Favorite drummer of all times, keepin time wid da best: LOUIS!

[dixiejazz1]

I can hardly sit still every time I watch this video. I just want to jump up and dance for joy.Traditional jazz lovers everywhere will be forever indebted to the great Lil Hardin who wrote this fantastic jazz classic. She was married to Louis during the 20s while they played with the King Oliver band.(She was the pianist) (That's actually how they met.) Athough they divorced later, they remained life long friends. She truly was "the woman behind the man" during his early years and rise to fame.

[Kuzya3k]

Wow.

[jennifersman]

Oh yeah! Blow that horn, Pops!

[pappo29]

un grande louis

[VivaLaTrumpet]

They're all silly, lol. Trummy Young is a funny name.

[ronoman88]

Well done.

[markschlesinger]

Shows how joyous Satch could be-and how fabulous a muscian and showman in his prime

[TheSanityInspector]

@markschlesinger Like Duke Ellington said, he was born poor, he died rich, and he never hurt anyone on the way. The 1950s hepcats and the 1960s radicals could argue about his stage show--but there was no argument about what was coming out of that horn.

[toofattocare77]

What happened to that lady's baby? Did she just leave it there?

[axeman721]

1:07 = the best bass solo ever

[sherlockvenuti]

and he quotes "thats my home" at 1:56

[sherlockvenuti]

he quotes "chicken reel" at 2:41

[cgerh92549]

One of my favorites! I can't listen to "Struttin' .." without smiling ear-to-ear. I think the music was written by Pop's wife in the late 1920's, Lillian.

[prunellapussywuggums]

a musical genius and a man who loved everyone, play that cornet, Pops.

[klikonojazz]

@prunellapussywuggums but here he plays trumpet!

[ianjcameron]

Composition credit is given to Louis Armstrong and Don Raye, who has, I guess, been forgotten.

[Lundy1997]

You will never hear a better version of this record.

[joomuck]

These guys could really swing: what great music.

Thanks for the posting.

[creten69]

i like sweet baby rays

[winsome1235]

Now that's what I call JAZZZZZZZ!

[jedcrowe]

at 2:00 it sounds like "holiday for strings"

[hihats]

Louis Armstrong...the deepest and most soulful jazz musician of all time

[leomcculloch]

man that descending sequence starting at 1:52

that's why Louis was a frickin genius.

[old6is]

What a ham Louis is, just as well he is the greatest horn man ever. I loved it! Thanks.

[JTHMjulia]

Ahh...I heart this

[dottorgonzo84]

grandioso

[ienjoyhoagies]

Best song title ever.

[deepkeel65]

Trummy Young on trombone (great solo at 2:01). Dunno the pianist, either...

Heaviest I ever saw Louis Armstrong. But great chops and energy. Thank you, Skitdat!

[luckeyth]

Marty Napolean on piano

[agrahamt]

Anyone know if the playing is live - they're schucking and jiving so much I wonder if it was recorded separately. They sound wonderful.

[TradJazzGuy]

I think the song was recorded first and then played back for the band to dance to while filming for a couple reasons:

- No footsteps are ever heard even though a lot of walking is going on;

- 1950's recording technology - good enough to capture music played a fixed distance from a mic, it wasn't good enough to capture moving sources; whichever way the horns pointed, there is no variation in recorded level of each instrument;

[TradJazzGuy]

Also:

- The mix is balanced, even though some instruments (trumpet, drums) are individually much louder than others (clarinet, string bass) - hard with a single mic and impossible while moving;

- At 2:58 the clarinetist is holding his licorice stick with one hand, yet he has a complicated run (using both hands) leading up to that point.

Still - it's a classic tune by a great band and a fantastic trumpeter.

[BigChiefLtd]

Agrahamt - No this was not recorded live, at least as far as the film footage goes. If you'll note, starting at approximately the 1:30 mark, Satch is playing without his trademark hankerchief trailing down from his left hand. Suddenly they cut to a shot where - there it is! Then, they cut to another shot and Doh! It's not there! Then another where you see it wadded up in his hand, followed by another shot with it hanging again. These "jump cut" editing mistakes were missed by the editor.

[teledyn]

the sound of joy

[goodmusicday]

YEAH!!!! What a blast that party was, no pun intended. Thanks for post.

[phillytalented]

Struttin with some barbeque you ole dog hahaha im hungry lol

[e101254]

arvell shaw on bass

cozy cole on drums

i don't know who the pianist is.

[jazzmen6124]

Amazing!

[jungmans90]

my highschool jazz band is playing this tune

[jacquillo]

this is one of the few 100% jazz material (not a song) that Armstrong would still play 25 years after creating with the Hot Five. The thrill is still there.

[porkadachop]

I sure would like to post this on my myspace page and educate some people. Oh well, thanks for posting this. Great song. One of my favorite solos.

[ton1010]

The tone of Louis' horn never sounded better. His riffs

are exacting and what intensity and power.

[stefan1000us]

I guess you're right, they're don't really playing.

Perhaps one of the early playback's :-)

But o my god what a strong trumpetplaying.

Stefan Beekwilder

[kracalac]

is it me or the sounds off, like it dosnt even look like there really playing...

[skitdat]

Trummy Young , Bob McCracken, Arwell Shaw , Marty Napoleon , Cozy Cole

[porkadachop]

@skitdat And Velma Middleton!

[surlylicious]

I don't recognize many of the musicians...is that Trummy Young on trombone, hard to tell under that hat...nice to see a cameo by Velma Middleton...but, overall, great playing by Pops, on my favorite tune of his, probably because it was the first I really loved, and grew to love him by!

[philperson]

This was filmed during Louis' fall of '52 european tour. Thanks for posting it. I have a poor quality video of it. This is a big improvment. The clarinetist is Bob McCracken. He replaced Barney Bigard on this tour.