Happy Birthday, Louis Armstrong.
So much beautiful music…
[youtube] What a Wonderful World
I know it is trite, but it doesnt get any better.
Seminal Armstrong from the Hot Five and Hot Seven records:
High Society Calypso does it for me. Very cool.
I love Heebie Jeebies for the scat section. ree, bop zeep bop a dooby… deet dah do, deet dop a dooby oh doh…
And what the hell is he doing in Stardust? It opens with a trumpet lead, that’s a riff on the original melody – and then he does a vocal verse that’s a riff on the riff. Nowhere do we hear the original melody. It’s crazy. It’s wonderful.