Wynton's immense talent was able to shine through thanks to the pioneering genius of Louis Armstrong and many others who fought racism and segregation. The fact that this clip was shot in Copenhagen is testimony to a man who, through amazing music, broke through the constraints of race to bring jazz to the world.
Man would some of you stop comparing Wynton and Louis or even Bix for that matter. Thay are all great period! Jazz is all about style and voice. Each cat has a unique sound (apart from the Brecker clones) and has contributed to this great music.
I'm just saying Wynton is as fine a player that you will find today... not better than Pops or Bix... just a great musician and purveyor of jazz - old and new.
All the same, you have great, great taste and some wonderful videos and 78s!!
@bettyfelon1 I could not agree more. Every second from beginning to end is enthralling. His singing alone demonstrates how he ushered in pop singing of the 20th century.
@Urbino237 I was thinking about it in a simplier way....he's obviously having a good time playing which makes me have a good time listening and watching...
This is 1933, and Armstrongs beat placement is decades ahead of most other instrumentalists or singers. The notes he sings from about 1.00 til around 1.20 are among the most beautiful ever uttered by man. I really believe that. I'm not religious, but Louis looks like he's achieved some kind of state of grace when he sings or plays! A giant figure in music, and a wonderful person, by all accounts!
@InnAb109 Well said, and so true. The horn player to his left plays strictly to the score in a rat-tat-tat choppy tempo and style, typical of the era. As soon as Louis starts playing we know we are watching someone so gifted that time seems to stop. As Benny Green commented, "Anyone can learn what Louis Armstrong knows about music in a few weeks. Nobody could learn to play like him in a thousand years."
this copenhagen footage always gives me a chill...amazing they captured it on film that night...(good camera work by the way :) well done! brilliant young armstrong performing of course r.i.p!! god bless him, the band, and the people who decided to capture this on film !
Not actually live on stage in Copenhagen, but a clip from the Danish film, "København, Kanundborg, og ?" The applauding audience was edited in, which I think is rather obvious. There are 3 numbers by Louis from this film--all extraordinary. Don't watch this one in the Ken Burns disaster, he cuts away to sill talking heads after the vocal, covering that wonderful solo with nonsense by Stanley Crouch and Wynton Marsalis.
@ChrisAlbertson i don't know if what they say is nonsense. but i do agree. cutting the solo out was counterproductive to the points they were making. just like no one sang like louis before louis, certainly no one blew like louis before louis.
Man I love this recording. The Thing I love most is that even with all the stereo typical behavior of Louie you see something super serious which is the Music. As soon as he starts singing its like one of the most soulful things I have ever heard. His voice I feel like could be on a song written tomorrow and still be super soulful!!
If you cant acknowledge this man's body of work even just with the perfomance of this one song's influence on every thing that followed jazz, blues, rythym and blues, rock and roll,rock, soul, and pop? Then you really don't have an ear for music. Thank you so much for posting.
I love this song the first time I ever heard it was on the Little rascals on TV when I was a kid. Im currently watching Ken Burns JAZZ which I downloaded from ITUNES and Im learning about this great music and its a wonderful experience
@vanbelkom Could not agree more. I try to start each day with one piece by Louis and a short composition of Mozart's. As Oscar Peterson once remarked, jazz musicians are composing all the time.
American popular music would never have been what it was without Louis. If you look at this you can see all the subtleties that everyone who came after him borrowed. I don't think there is a single musician living or dead who was original as Mr. Armstrong.
Ive been looking for this version of Brother Louis Dinah for years. It is by far my favorite version of his, and certainly of any other version of it by anyone else.
Louis' Copenhagen versions of Dinah, Tiger Rag and I Cover the Waterfront are his greatest movies ever, thanks for posting them! They were actually recorded on October 21, 1933.
Darbyjack. You're right in saying you don't quite see it. Cross bar syncopated swinging half time phrases in the early 30's. NOT ahead of it's time, You must be kidding, but again as you said, you don't quite see it. Pity
You're right, Louis was a one-of-a-kind for many reasons. We may never the likes of his range of talents again, all in one person. How many musicians have single-handedly changed the face of several genres of music, not just one?
@62grossman Louis was both a superb instrumentalist and singer, somewhat rare in jazz. I am not that familiar with Bob Dylan's guitar playing skills. Are they equal to his singing and song-writing talents? And while Louis influenced pop, rock, blues and more, has Bob had a similar impact?
@Urbino237 For musical impact on different genres the only person I can really think of is James Brown. In the 50's he helped create soul from R&B and in the 60's he helped create funk. And in the 70's he helped create hip hop. Plus James Brown was extremely sucessful over a 30 year period. He wasn't nearly the muscian that Louis Armstrong was, but for influence I'd have to say he's pretty high up there.
@Odin029 Well said. I wish I was more knowledgeable! Not to 'argue' the point, but this American composer/music critic was WAY more so than I will ever be. From Virgil Thomson's 1938 book, "Modern Music" (have lost page ref.):
"His style of improvisation would seem to have combined the highest reaches of instrumental virtuosity with the most tensely disciplined melodic structure and the most spontaneous emotional expression, all of which in one man you must admit to be pretty rare."
@Odin029 Part 2: I confess my ignorance about James Brown: besides being a stellar singer did he also influence an instrument? As we know, once Louis broke onto the scene, all singers wanted to sing like him and all horn players wanted to play like him - which persisted for decades through one generation after another. From what I have read the only other jazz artist of similar stature (yet only on an instrument) was John Coltrane. Both James' & Louis' enthusiasm was SO infectious!
@Urbino237 James Brown's influence was as a performer, arranger, composer more than an instrumentalist. He was a trendsetting dancer and performer though. He and some others took r&b and gospel music and combined them in a way that created soul music in the mid and late 50's. He was one of the biggest stars in soul music, but in the 60's he stopped worrying about chord changes and melodies and started playing these infectious one chord grooves that went on to become funk.
@Urbino237 In the 70's he kept the hard 1 or 2 chord grooves but brought back melodies. He didn't sing over them though.. he mostly talked. He called it rapping. He used it as an interlude but other people picked up on it and rapped entire songs... the birth of hip-hip. James Brown and Louis Armstrong aren't mirror images of each other, but I would hate to think what music would have been like without them.
@Odin029 Wow - thanks for taking the time to explain James' accomplishments; I had no idea. Remarkable the creative bounds of people isn't it? Clearly they both contributed a lot and we have them to thank. But as Louis would retort, "What? I'm just blowin' my horn man, just blowin' my horn." (On the topic of 'influence', others hold that Bob Marley's is broad and deep as well, but I don't know.)
@Urbino237 Charlie Parker was the only other player to really have Louis's kind of influence over other musicians. He was also one of the few talents who could match and sometimes exceed Louis in terms of sheer brilliance. Coltrane and Miles after bird. Bird basically invented the Modern Jazz language that's still in use today. Every Jazz musician that followed him owes him a great debt, just like Louis!
@jibsmokestack1 Yes, certainly agree; the jury seems to be solid on your points. Not to nit-pick, but Louis also influenced singers (of many styles) for decades to follow, while for the little I know, Charles did not sing - or maybe he did! But for sure on the instrumental side of things, Louis and Charlie have to be acknowledged as two pillars of the music. Thanks for this.
@Urbino237 Even that is an understatement. He created what we know as 20th century popular music stylisticly, vocally and instrumentally. He essentially created modern time and swing. Louis Armstrong is music
Likely no one. A friend plays trumpet in a jazz big band and he says he is doing well to get his notes the way he likes maybe 10 out of 100 times, adding that Pops got his at pretty close to 100 - and this at 300 nights a year for 6 decades. Can't think of one horn player today who could match that; simply super-human strength and endurance.
@eroctheleo Could be Harry Dial, but Louis' big band went through 3 or 4 drummers until later bringing in Big Sid Catlett - my favourite of all jazz drummers.
Louis was the most influential musician in the 20th century. He not only helped create Jazz music but also equally influenced other musicians with his trumpet playing and vocals.
We'll never see another Louis Armstrong. His music is still enjoyable and uplifting today.
The definition of Love through Music. Makes me feel good. I wish Pops would have stayed in Europe and made music with this kind of energy for a few more years. Just a fantasy.
Louis Armstrong is definitely my favorite artist of any era anywhere. I would give my left arm jut to meet him.
MrPaulesp219 2 weeks ago in playlist Listening to Jazz
@MrPaulesp219 then i guess you would be 1 Armstrong when you meet him
chakin4141 2 days ago
Great stuff - thanks for posting
CineDevine 2 weeks ago
we should be very greatful to have this archives on a click tanx for whom ever preserve these
darzil007 2 weeks ago
What'd I give to see him preform n meet him
salvypimp 3 weeks ago
Yooo is this live????If so this is one of the best live performances I've seen in my 21 years living. Louis was talented no doubt!!!!
RealismOfLife 3 weeks ago
i was watching homeland and after the 10th episode i had to check this out and im glad i did!
Staubzs 1 month ago
The crowd is white, the band is black. Best Armstrong song imo.
JimmyCos 1 month ago
Wynton's immense talent was able to shine through thanks to the pioneering genius of Louis Armstrong and many others who fought racism and segregation. The fact that this clip was shot in Copenhagen is testimony to a man who, through amazing music, broke through the constraints of race to bring jazz to the world.
shiantzu 1 month ago
Pure genius!
shiantzu 1 month ago
love this
pablinquis 1 month ago
Hey, what's up with all the Marsalis hate? He's keeping such the beautiful jazz tradition alive.
AuroraCelest 1 month ago
@AuroraCelest I'm sure he is, although not alltogether unbiased against white musicians. And to call him better than Louis is laughable.
harryoakley 1 month ago
Greatest man to ever put his lips to a trumpet. HANDS DOWN
naythanyel777 1 month ago
Awesome!!!!!
mnash3 2 months ago
Louis is the best there is
mamc11898 2 months ago
I love how that alto sits down as fast as he possibly can once Louis raises the trumpet to his lips
rileydog22 5 months ago 2
Overthinking it, dude
bettyfelon1 5 months ago
Man would some of you stop comparing Wynton and Louis or even Bix for that matter. Thay are all great period! Jazz is all about style and voice. Each cat has a unique sound (apart from the Brecker clones) and has contributed to this great music.
otnas001 6 months ago
@GuitarSlimJunior Wynton doesn't come close to Louis (or Bix for that matter).
harryoakley 6 months ago 2
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I'm just saying Wynton is as fine a player that you will find today... not better than Pops or Bix... just a great musician and purveyor of jazz - old and new.
All the same, you have great, great taste and some wonderful videos and 78s!!
GuitarSlimJunior 6 months ago
This makes me smile all day...
bettyfelon1 6 months ago
@bettyfelon1 I could not agree more. Every second from beginning to end is enthralling. His singing alone demonstrates how he ushered in pop singing of the 20th century.
Urbino237 5 months ago
@Urbino237 I was thinking about it in a simplier way....he's obviously having a good time playing which makes me have a good time listening and watching...
bettyfelon1 5 months ago
@bettyfelon1 And this is what infuses his music throughout his entire career doesn't it. Thank you.
Urbino237 5 months ago
This is 1933, and Armstrongs beat placement is decades ahead of most other instrumentalists or singers. The notes he sings from about 1.00 til around 1.20 are among the most beautiful ever uttered by man. I really believe that. I'm not religious, but Louis looks like he's achieved some kind of state of grace when he sings or plays! A giant figure in music, and a wonderful person, by all accounts!
InnAb109 6 months ago
@InnAb109 Well said, and so true. The horn player to his left plays strictly to the score in a rat-tat-tat choppy tempo and style, typical of the era. As soon as Louis starts playing we know we are watching someone so gifted that time seems to stop. As Benny Green commented, "Anyone can learn what Louis Armstrong knows about music in a few weeks. Nobody could learn to play like him in a thousand years."
Urbino237 5 months ago
this performance is one of the best ever! i don't even have the words to describe how amped this song gets me.
TheMeestermeester 7 months ago
This is amazing!
craigmack1 7 months ago 2
That solo was fantastic! The only down about it was that it was too short.( Bad english).
colinwells4 7 months ago
Pure magic.
Ringwraithlp3 8 months ago 3
this copenhagen footage always gives me a chill...amazing they captured it on film that night...(good camera work by the way :) well done! brilliant young armstrong performing of course r.i.p!! god bless him, the band, and the people who decided to capture this on film !
thanks harry for the excellent sound
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voodoowop45s 8 months ago
note Oliver Hardy's voice at the end?
brabazon10 8 months ago
@brabazon10 ...Uh, no, while I can't say who's voice that is, I CAN say that it's definately NOT Oliver Hardy's voice.
jankbass 7 months ago
@jankbass yes it is. its from the laurel and hardy movie "sons of the desert". check it out...
pearsnockie 7 months ago
How could you possibly sit and watch this..Jumpin ..I am JUMPIN!
jamespondi007 10 months ago
The God of Jazz.
bobbyfearfactor 10 months ago
As the man says at the end of this: "That's all there is and there isn't any more!"
diannemando 11 months ago
Thanks for uploading this musical gem.
xxlalcegaxx 11 months ago
This is... the best. It makes me feel like Louie's playing in my living room, just to me. Sheer joy.
ironstratocaster 11 months ago
I keep coming back to this, the greatest music video ever, and all with one camera...
Watch him, listen to him: Louis, the root of EVERYTHING.
tuxguys 1 year ago
1.27 a young wynton marsalis takes the stage...
soursourapples 1 year ago
@soursourapples - Pshaw! Winton can't be in Louis shadow!
harryoakley 1 year ago 14
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I think Wynton would be the first to admit this... NO ONE does
slwdsm 9 months ago
@harryoakley Everyone is in Louis' shadow, without him, there would be no Wynton, great as he is!
londonchops67 2 months ago
@soursourapples Wynton wasn't born for 30 years after this came out.
MrJoescmoe 11 months ago
@soursourapples You're right!!!
speechrighter 10 months ago
@soursourapples
Wynton Marsalis was born in '61... Armstrong played copenhagen in '33....
thats a VERY young Wynton if thats him...
slwdsm 9 months ago 4
@soursourapples Wynton MArsalis was not born in 1933 man not even Elis....
hardminder 7 months ago
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somekindofcreative 4 months ago
@soursourapples thats wynton? really'
willy1986tralara 2 months ago
@willy1986tralara No it is not.
monkman51 1 month ago
@soursourapples except for the guy at 1:27 couldn't hold up against marsalis
metfan85 2 months ago
@soursourapples Ha...wynton WISHES !
snorkelbda03 1 month ago
Not actually live on stage in Copenhagen, but a clip from the Danish film, "København, Kanundborg, og ?" The applauding audience was edited in, which I think is rather obvious. There are 3 numbers by Louis from this film--all extraordinary. Don't watch this one in the Ken Burns disaster, he cuts away to sill talking heads after the vocal, covering that wonderful solo with nonsense by Stanley Crouch and Wynton Marsalis.
ChrisAlbertson 1 year ago 8
With "live" I meant that the sound wasn't dubbed in. In that respect it is "live on stage".
harryoakley 1 year ago 4
@ChrisAlbertson i don't know if what they say is nonsense. but i do agree. cutting the solo out was counterproductive to the points they were making. just like no one sang like louis before louis, certainly no one blew like louis before louis.
jaxjagsman 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this video. It just makes me happy.
WkUpPeople 1 year ago 3
Absolutely incredible! Thanks for posting. Ed
TorontoEd7 1 year ago 3
THIS WAS THE MOMENT IN TIME EVERYTHING CHANGED. Thank you Louis
rebelguevara1 1 year ago 4
Yeah, bwoy. This is a glimmer of what must have been a huge and unconventional stage presence.
BlindWilliam 1 year ago
Wow!
clhartman 1 year ago 2
this is so heavy I could cry
hihats 1 year ago
Man I love this recording. The Thing I love most is that even with all the stereo typical behavior of Louie you see something super serious which is the Music. As soon as he starts singing its like one of the most soulful things I have ever heard. His voice I feel like could be on a song written tomorrow and still be super soulful!!
Embowafa2004 1 year ago 5
@Embowafa2004
Oh, you are so right...:)
majkalibra 1 year ago
If you cant acknowledge this man's body of work even just with the perfomance of this one song's influence on every thing that followed jazz, blues, rythym and blues, rock and roll,rock, soul, and pop? Then you really don't have an ear for music. Thank you so much for posting.
EubieCool 1 year ago 2
Each time I listen to this song I smile...wonderful, wonderful.
majkalibra 1 year ago
I love this song the first time I ever heard it was on the Little rascals on TV when I was a kid. Im currently watching Ken Burns JAZZ which I downloaded from ITUNES and Im learning about this great music and its a wonderful experience
jahlaune 1 year ago
I love this song the first time I ever heard it was on the Little rascals on TV when I was a kid
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majkalibra 1 year ago
I can not watch this without smiling he's brilliant
DaniScharpf92 1 year ago
Wow--a young Louis Armstrong--he was as tremendous then as he was later--so very talented
ladyeulailia 1 year ago
Why the fire truck can I not rate this 'like'? I bloody 'like' this song! Did I say like? I meant LOVE!
McFaegle 1 year ago
i love this song
cemepe2 1 year ago
This is great!
Look how young he is.
atcgod777 1 year ago
This is perfection.
Cianaodh1 1 year ago
I like it since I am Dinah Lee, I thought I was named afer Dinah Shore.
SuperDilee 1 year ago
you can have your soldiers, saints, statesmen and suffering artists. satchmo's my f'n hero.
joeypropeller 1 year ago
Happy feet!
scruno55 1 year ago
I'd like to listen to this song so loud that it would drive me deaf.
Eprocadation 1 year ago
Music pioneers. You don't see them anymore.. everyone now is copying one another, creating mainstream crap..
nemci7v 1 year ago 3
@nemci7v check out Cecil Taylor, he is alive and well, check him out before another great is gone
kr7437a 1 year ago
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sonicallyopinionated 1 year ago
The modern day Mozart right here.
vanbelkom 1 year ago 2
@vanbelkom Could not agree more. I try to start each day with one piece by Louis and a short composition of Mozart's. As Oscar Peterson once remarked, jazz musicians are composing all the time.
Urbino237 1 year ago
love dis songgg!!
agbobabe 1 year ago
American popular music would never have been what it was without Louis. If you look at this you can see all the subtleties that everyone who came after him borrowed. I don't think there is a single musician living or dead who was original as Mr. Armstrong.
mikeao54 1 year ago
@mikeao54
I positively concur: Louis was the root of EVERYTHING.
tuxguys 1 year ago
he's almost a caricuture he's so cool.
HK83IE 2 years ago
Ive been looking for this version of Brother Louis Dinah for years. It is by far my favorite version of his, and certainly of any other version of it by anyone else.
Thank you for posting this!
HungryEars 2 years ago
amazing!!!
skullfan135 2 years ago 2
he was o niue ever be diplicated
jmet718 2 years ago 2
amazing charisma
filsdepatrick 2 years ago
Wonderful!
genecorrado 2 years ago
For me a complete video: Not only Louis Armstrong performing, but Oliver Hardy (of Laurel and Hardy) signing off! Thanks a bundle!!
WSenator1 2 years ago
Beautiful music and talent that stirs my soul! <3
SoPreciousIsThePout 2 years ago 3
For my taste, the greatest music video ever made... and this 40+ years before there was a place to actually show music videos.
tuxguys 2 years ago 6
Louis' Copenhagen versions of Dinah, Tiger Rag and I Cover the Waterfront are his greatest movies ever, thanks for posting them! They were actually recorded on October 21, 1933.
jpvuorela 2 years ago 2
quelles images magnifiques (such terrific pictures) !! merci
dirtyfrenchie 2 years ago 2
Chapeau! Genial Louis!
KatzenImNebel 2 years ago 2
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long live king louie!
blacqwolff 2 years ago
Bellisimo, muchisimas gracias.
sirjuandabicho 2 years ago 2
My favorite video
autumn68 2 years ago 4
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Darbyjack. You're right in saying you don't quite see it. Cross bar syncopated swinging half time phrases in the early 30's. NOT ahead of it's time, You must be kidding, but again as you said, you don't quite see it. Pity
gemusic1 2 years ago
no one will ever be as talented as he is
Xshizstomper27X 2 years ago
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... Beatles?
Darbyjack 2 years ago
You're right, Louis was a one-of-a-kind for many reasons. We may never the likes of his range of talents again, all in one person. How many musicians have single-handedly changed the face of several genres of music, not just one?
Urbino237 2 years ago 18
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majkalibra 1 year ago
@Urbino237 genres don't exist. but i agree louis armstrong is the best. if best exists too. which it doesn't haha
glennmiller2005 1 year ago 3
@Urbino237 and acting, and writting!!!
itswitzmoab 1 year ago
@Urbino237 Bob Dylan might be another, but that's about it.
62grossman 1 year ago
@62grossman Louis was both a superb instrumentalist and singer, somewhat rare in jazz. I am not that familiar with Bob Dylan's guitar playing skills. Are they equal to his singing and song-writing talents? And while Louis influenced pop, rock, blues and more, has Bob had a similar impact?
Urbino237 1 year ago
@Urbino237 For musical impact on different genres the only person I can really think of is James Brown. In the 50's he helped create soul from R&B and in the 60's he helped create funk. And in the 70's he helped create hip hop. Plus James Brown was extremely sucessful over a 30 year period. He wasn't nearly the muscian that Louis Armstrong was, but for influence I'd have to say he's pretty high up there.
Odin029 1 year ago
@Odin029 Well said. I wish I was more knowledgeable! Not to 'argue' the point, but this American composer/music critic was WAY more so than I will ever be. From Virgil Thomson's 1938 book, "Modern Music" (have lost page ref.):
"His style of improvisation would seem to have combined the highest reaches of instrumental virtuosity with the most tensely disciplined melodic structure and the most spontaneous emotional expression, all of which in one man you must admit to be pretty rare."
Urbino237 1 year ago
@Odin029 Part 2: I confess my ignorance about James Brown: besides being a stellar singer did he also influence an instrument? As we know, once Louis broke onto the scene, all singers wanted to sing like him and all horn players wanted to play like him - which persisted for decades through one generation after another. From what I have read the only other jazz artist of similar stature (yet only on an instrument) was John Coltrane. Both James' & Louis' enthusiasm was SO infectious!
Urbino237 1 year ago
@Urbino237 James Brown's influence was as a performer, arranger, composer more than an instrumentalist. He was a trendsetting dancer and performer though. He and some others took r&b and gospel music and combined them in a way that created soul music in the mid and late 50's. He was one of the biggest stars in soul music, but in the 60's he stopped worrying about chord changes and melodies and started playing these infectious one chord grooves that went on to become funk.
Odin029 1 year ago
@Urbino237 In the 70's he kept the hard 1 or 2 chord grooves but brought back melodies. He didn't sing over them though.. he mostly talked. He called it rapping. He used it as an interlude but other people picked up on it and rapped entire songs... the birth of hip-hip. James Brown and Louis Armstrong aren't mirror images of each other, but I would hate to think what music would have been like without them.
Odin029 1 year ago
@Odin029 Wow - thanks for taking the time to explain James' accomplishments; I had no idea. Remarkable the creative bounds of people isn't it? Clearly they both contributed a lot and we have them to thank. But as Louis would retort, "What? I'm just blowin' my horn man, just blowin' my horn." (On the topic of 'influence', others hold that Bob Marley's is broad and deep as well, but I don't know.)
Urbino237 1 year ago
@Urbino237 Charlie Parker was the only other player to really have Louis's kind of influence over other musicians. He was also one of the few talents who could match and sometimes exceed Louis in terms of sheer brilliance. Coltrane and Miles after bird. Bird basically invented the Modern Jazz language that's still in use today. Every Jazz musician that followed him owes him a great debt, just like Louis!
jibsmokestack1 1 year ago
@jibsmokestack1 Yes, certainly agree; the jury seems to be solid on your points. Not to nit-pick, but Louis also influenced singers (of many styles) for decades to follow, while for the little I know, Charles did not sing - or maybe he did! But for sure on the instrumental side of things, Louis and Charlie have to be acknowledged as two pillars of the music. Thanks for this.
Urbino237 1 year ago
@Urbino237 Even that is an understatement. He created what we know as 20th century popular music stylisticly, vocally and instrumentally. He essentially created modern time and swing. Louis Armstrong is music
MrPentatonics4life 5 months ago
I don't think there ever was another performer able to communicate such joy in his music. Long live Satchmo!
ystahr 2 years ago
Folks, I think we've found a cure for depression!
Propinkquity 2 years ago 4
Ay dios mio, God had truly blessed him with such an amazing voice.
slimchica1 2 years ago 3
just incredible...
Randomnoobi 2 years ago
My jaw is hanging...unbelievable...so ahead of his time. The whole vocal section is mesmerizing - so swinging. Thanks for putting this up!
ironcheftruth 2 years ago
Don't quite see what you mean by "ahead of his time"... Nothing seems grounbreaking or ahead of anyone else of the 1930s...
But still, great performance! Favouriting this.
Darbyjack 2 years ago
i heard of him in music class and he is awsome!!!!
MrMega124 2 years ago
one of the greatest performances by one of the greatest performers/musicians of all time.
the most important American musician to ever live in my opinion.
Pops is King.
TheGreatTactician 2 years ago
very true
RiversideIndian 2 years ago
Who could ever play that trumpet like that again???
jluna725 2 years ago 6
Likely no one. A friend plays trumpet in a jazz big band and he says he is doing well to get his notes the way he likes maybe 10 out of 100 times, adding that Pops got his at pretty close to 100 - and this at 300 nights a year for 6 decades. Can't think of one horn player today who could match that; simply super-human strength and endurance.
Urbino237 2 years ago 18
True music.
queekers 2 years ago
This always makes me happy
RiversideIndian 2 years ago
Any idea who the drummer is?
eroctheleo 2 years ago
@eroctheleo Could be Harry Dial, but Louis' big band went through 3 or 4 drummers until later bringing in Big Sid Catlett - my favourite of all jazz drummers.
Urbino237 1 year ago
Thirty eight years after he passed away, Louis Armstrong is still putting smiles on people's faces.
If you don't feel good after watching "Pops" perform, you probably don't have a pulse.
TeeDub106 2 years ago 3
A true artist!
SwingtoBop 2 years ago
louie armstrong is amazing
greengeek9519 2 years ago
check out the horn players feet goin' to town
pithair1 2 years ago 4
I love you so much. You have beautiful smile Mr. Armstrong in the same time heart and music, RIP.
WiseNomads 2 years ago 2
Check out the video of Tiger Rag at the same performance (Related videos to the right). Around 1:05 he says "Look out there boys"
eroctheleo 2 years ago
Louis was the most influential musician in the 20th century. He not only helped create Jazz music but also equally influenced other musicians with his trumpet playing and vocals.
We'll never see another Louis Armstrong. His music is still enjoyable and uplifting today.
eroctheleo 2 years ago 3
He was The first Mick Jagger and
The first Eddie Vanhalen all in one.
wwwTheBookbaggs 2 years ago
He set the standard in Jazz
pithair1 2 years ago
iTunes has this version, the Album it's on is called "Louis Armstrong in Scandinavia".
ToddCMorgan 2 years ago
I love this song.
And he said Legato twice, I think. Wow, how fast is this song supposed to go?
Bellalisa 2 years ago
"Look out, Denmark. Are ya ready? Look out."
Took me *YEARS* to figure that out lol.
ErsatzWino 2 years ago
I think he says "Look out there boys" but who knows lol. Whatever it is, it's great. This is my favorite video of Pops.
eroctheleo 2 years ago
The definition of Love through Music. Makes me feel good. I wish Pops would have stayed in Europe and made music with this kind of energy for a few more years. Just a fantasy.
sumwunhuis 2 years ago
This was filmed in October of 1933, not 1932.
philperson 2 years ago
The greatest.
KitlerAdolf 2 years ago
I've seen it 100 times. Still amazing
DawnWeatherby 2 years ago 4
dinah? dinah!
pmwii22 2 years ago
simply amazing
greengeek9519 2 years ago 2
Pops!!!! No one can ever compare. :50 is bebob before bebob!
das499 2 years ago
Absolutely!
ErsatzWino 2 years ago
Armstrong is the best but i love this solo too. Fantastic!!
1:27
SyberkaPL 3 years ago