Satchmo the Great

Name: Satchmo the Great
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1957
Duration: 63 min
Cast: Louis Armstrong, Leonard Bernstein, Edward R. Murrow

1957

1h 3min

Documentary

Music

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Overview

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."