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'You want to make a silent film – about jazz?'

4761 days ago
Guardian Music — Charlie Chaplin's City Lights and its live score opened Dan Pritzker's eyes to the possibilities of silent movies. But was choosing Louis Armstrong as his subject a step too far?I was working on a screenplay about Buddy Bolden, "inventor" of jazz, wh... more info
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Our favourite albums: your opinions

4783 days ago
Guardian Music — As the My favourite album series concludes, we look back at the highlights and see what readers had to say about our choicesAs the My favourite album series closes with Peter Robinson on Now That's What I Call Music 11, it seemed like a good opportun... more info
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Wynton Marsalis/Eric Clapton: Play Blues – Live from Jazz at Lincoln Centre

4817 days ago
Guardian Music — (Reprise/Rhino)Wynton Marsalis says he wanted last April's Lincoln Centre blues collaborations with Eric Clapton "to sound like people playing music they know and love, not like a project". Marsalis knew all too well that such a meeting could sound l... more info
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My favourite album: The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings by Louis Armstrong

4820 days ago
Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same. Here, Jon Wilde explains how Louis Armstrong's music pulled him back from the brink …Even though Louis Armstrong ultimately changed my life, I came to jazz l... more info
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Louis Armstrong: His genius lives on

4837 days ago
The Telegraph — Grammy-winning Jazz musican John Chilton, who was Louis Armstrong's biographer, enjoys a new 10-CD boxset that showcases a musical master. more info
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Louis Armstrong in pictures

4837 days ago
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Louis Armstrong: Ambassador of Jazz Box – review

4845 days ago
Guardian Music — (Universal, 10 CD box set)On musical grounds alone, a 10-disc collection of Louis Armstrong's best work from the 1920s to the 1960s can't help walking off with a five-star rating. The only reservation about this unstintingly luxurious, memorabilia-la... more info
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Satchmo: Louis Armstrong, Ambassador of Jazz: Louis Armstrong, CD review

4852 days ago
The Telegraph — This is as good a compendium of the genius of Louis Armstrong as anyone could wish for. more info
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Radio review: Satchmo by Satchmo

4867 days ago
Guardian Music — Louis Armstrong's home recordings made for an unusual, but fascinating, hour of radioIt would be, presenter Paul Sexton promised, "a very unusual hour on Radio 2". And so it was, with Satchmo by Satchmo, a programme filled with home recordings made b... more info
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Play makes the picks: Best of the best

4887 days ago
Detroit Free Press — The Detroit Symphony Orchestra drew 5,000 people over two nights to last summer's lakeside concerts on the terrace of the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House. The DSO-Ford House partnership returns Friday with a program celebrating Louis Armstrong starri... more info
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