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Louis Armstrong

Album Description

jazzmusic jazz music zulu civilrightsmovement louisarmstrong satchmo Louisiana trumpet whatawonderfulworld satch Ambassadorsatch civilrightspioneer Social Studies/History 3 - 5 6 - 8 UShistory jazzhistory Art/Music

This album contains primary and secondary sources about Louis Armstrong. The prominent topics addressed within this album are (1) Armstrong's unique approach to jazz and art, (2) Armstrong's great influence on the growing music industry, (3) Armstrong's involvement and activism in the Civil Rights Movement, and (4) Armstrong's life and legacy in the US. This album will provide teachers and students learning about US History, the Civil Rights Movement, and the history of jazz with sources to support learning and a deeper understanding of the events that occurred through the lens of Louis Armstrong's life. This album covers a variety of SOL topics addressed in 4th grade and above, even spanning economics, civics, and foreign relations. Louis Armstrong is a prominent figure in Louisiana's history and was a huge topic of conversation in my elementary education growing up in New Orleans.

Louis Armstrong Broke Barriers With Music, Optimism, and the Sheer Force of His Personality

[Louis Armstrong plays trumpet while Joey Adams, president of the American Guild of Variety Artists Youth Fund, presents him with an award at Carnegie Hall]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/97518794/

Reference note

Created / Published

1966.

Genre

Portrait photographs--1960-1970
Photographic prints--1960-1970

Notes

- New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Repository

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

cph 3c18976 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c18976

[Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tuesday Weld, Louis Armstrong and band perform on stage - scene from "The Five Pennies"]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2023862430/

Reference note

Created / Published

[Place of production not identified] : Dena Pictures Incorporated, 1958.

Genre

Photographs

Notes

- Location: Box 671.
- Production photograph from the film "The Five Pennies."
- For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012007
- Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.

Repository

c-Music Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection Refer to finding aid

The Five Pennies Saints

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2023862281/

Reference note

Created / Published

Hollywood : Dena Music, Inc., 1959.

Notes

- Adaptaion for Danny Kaye and Louis Armstrong of "When the Saints Go Marching In."
- At top: From - Paramount Pictures Present The Dena Production -The Five Pennies)
- Location: Box 463, Folder 2.
- Two stave vocal score with chord symbols written above top staff.
- For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012007
- Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.

Repository

c-Music Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection Refer to finding aid

Las Cinco Monedas

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2023862076/

Reference note

Created / Published

Buenos Aires : Fermata, 1960.

Notes

- Location: Box 443, Folder 1.
- On cover: Photograph of Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye.
- Spanish translation/adaptation is provided on page 3 but the lyrics above the music is in English.
- For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012007
- Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.

Repository

c-Music Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection Refer to finding aid

I Cinque Pennies

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2023862075/

Reference note

Created / Published

Milano : Edizioni Curci, 1959.

Notes

- A collection of songs from the film 'The Five Pennies' translated and adapted for Italian performers.
- Location: Box 443, Folder 1.
- On cover: a photograph of Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye.
- For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012007
- Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.

Repository

c-Music Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection Refer to finding aid

[Louis Armstrong, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, looking at trumpet] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Herman Hiller.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/00652635/

Reference note

Created / Published

1953.

Genre

Portrait photographs--1950-1960
Photographic prints--1950-1960

Notes

- NYWT&S staff photograph.
- Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Repository

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

cph 3c27235 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c27235

[Portrait of Louis Armstrong, between 1938 and 1948]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2023868449/

Reference note

Created / Published

[1938?]

Genre

Portrait photographs--1930-1950

Notes

- Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 040
- Original negative or transparency: 1 negative : b&w ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Originals not served.
- Originals Purchase; William P. Gottlieb, 1995-1997
- Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.

Repository

c-Music Electronic resource

[Portrait of Louis Armstrong, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2023867420/

Reference note

Created / Published

1946.

Genre

Portrait photographs--1940-1950

Notes

- Caption from Down Beat: These are the things that make up Louis Armstrong, as reflected in the mirror by Bill Gottlieb, staff lensman, in the third of his intimate studies of musical celebs in their dressing rooms. Here are his throat spray and other medications (Louie vocalizes as much as he plays trumpet, you know), the inevitable stack of handkerchiefs (he uses them by the dozen), and copies of the diet by which he lost 60 poinds in one year, distributed gratis to all over-weight friends and acquaintances
- Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 011
- In: "Through the looking glass," Down Beat, v. 13, no. 15 (July 15, 1946), p. 21.
- Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress.
- Original negative or transparency: 1 negative : b&w ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Originals not served.
- Originals Purchase; William P. Gottlieb, 1995-1997
- Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.

Repository

c-Music Electronic resource

Freedom Now: Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement

Link: https:https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/gdc/gdcwebcasts/16/04/21/mu/s1/83/0/160421mus1830/160421mus1830_1280x720_2000.mp4

Reference link: https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690135/

Reference note

Summary: Library of Congress jazz scholar Dan Morgenstern discusses the role of jazz music throughout the Civil Rights movement in the 20th century.
Created / Published: Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2016-04-21.
Notes: - Classification: Music and Books on Music. - Daniel Morgenstern. - Recorded on 2016-04-21. - Teachers. - Visitors.
Digital Id: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcwebcasts.160421mus1830

Saints Go Marchin' In

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2023862845/

Reference note

Genre

Manuscripts

Notes

- For the film "The Five Pennies"
- Location: Box 491, Folder 2.
- Various versions and edits arranged by date.
- Written as a duet between Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye.
- For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012007
- Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.

Repository

c-Music Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection Refer to finding aid

Music's Voice in the American Civil Rights Movement

[Louis Armstrong and his All Stars]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2023865232/

Reference note

Created / Published

1950's.

Notes

- From Louise Mulligan's scrap book
- Lewisohn Stadium of the City College, Amsterdam Avenue, 136-138th Street. Newspaper clipping promoting concert by Louis Armstrong with Gerry Mulligan. The names are incorrectly given as Dizzy Mulligan and Gerry Armstrong.
- Title was truncated from lenghthy version to shortened version.
- For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu011017
- Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.

Repository

c-Music Gerry Mulligan Collection Refer to finding aid

Louis Armstrong Broke Silence On Civil Rights In 1957

Poisoning Their Coffee: Louis Armstrong and Civil Rights

Satchmo at the Opera. Illustrated Program given to attendees of the May 24 concert at the Accra Opera House. 8pp. [Accra 1956]

Reference link: https://library.georgetown.edu/exhibition/jazz-ambassador-louis-armstrong-ghana-1956

Jazz Concert with Louis Armstrong and The All Stars

Reference link: https://library.georgetown.edu/exhibition/jazz-ambassador-louis-armstrong-ghana-1956

Satchmo's Blues By Alan Schroeder, Illustrated by Floyd Cooper

Reference link: https://a.co/d/h1K5Llj

Reference note

Author's Note:

On hot summer nights in New Orleans, a boy named Louis Armstrong would peek under the big swinging doors of Economy Hall and listen to the jazz band. The best night was Friday, when Bunk Johnson would blow his cornet till the roof trembled. At moments like those, Louis could feel his toes tingle. He wanted to be like Bunk Johnson; aim his horn straight up at the night sky and set the stars spinning.

One day Louis saw a horn in a pawnshop window—a real brass cornet. The cardboard sign said $5. How could he ever come up with that much money? Every day Louis did what he could to earn that five dollars, and every day he practiced blowing his imaginary horn. It was a dream he would never give up.

The vibrant, swinging world of New Orleans jazz seems to bounce off the pages in this tribute to an extraordinary young man. Louis Armstrong's dynamic personality and amazing trumpet playing would cast a spell on millions of people around the world, to whom he will always be the one and only Satchmo, the Ambassador of Jazz.

Who Was Louis Armstrong? By Yona Zeldis McDonough, Illustrated by John O’Brien

Reference link: https://a.co/d/eo0LJxS

Reference note

Author's Note:

If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong's own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year life spanned a critical time in American music as well as black history.

If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong By Roxanne Orgill, Illustrated by Leonard Jenkins

Reference link: https://a.co/d/5x5F5AY

Reference note

Author's Note:

Roxane Orgill’s vivid words and Leonard Jenkins’s dramatic pictures combine to tell the story of a boy who grew up to be a giant of jazz—the legendary and beloved Louis Armstrong. As a poor boy in New Orleans, where music was everywhere—dancing out of doorways, singing on street corners, crying from the cornet of the great Joe Oliver for all to hear—Louis longed for a horn so that he too could sing, bring home pennies, and, most of all, tap happy-feet blues till the sun rose. It wasn’t going to be easy. Many things, not all of them good, had to happen before he got his horn. But when at last he did, he sent music spiraling up into the New Orleans night sky like a spinning top gone crazy.