Satchmo the Great
|Satchmo the Great
Status: Released
Runtime: 63
Release Date: 04/10/1957
Origin Language: en
Origin Country: US
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Countries: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
Music
Documentary
In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the world as American good-will ambassadors bring jazz at its best to the people of the world. Within the film, the life of Louis Armstrong is portrayed through the music. One of the outstanding scenes in this "biography/docudrama" shows blind songwriter W. C. Handy, with tears streaming down his face, as Armstrong, backed by Leonard Bernstein leading the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, play Handy's immortal "St. Louis Blues."
