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[smooth jazz music playing]
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[Orson Welles]
I think it's time now to sweeten the air
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with a little entertainment.
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But not on the principle of escapism,
but on the principle of affirmation.
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And there's scarcely
a more affirmative artist in, uh,
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the musical world than my old friend
whom I'm going to bring out now,
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on the theory that music hath charms
to soothe the savage breast.
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And because he is,
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past all question,
one of the greatest influences,
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uh, in American music
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and the greatest influence
in jazz of all time.
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It's my… [sighs] …great pleasure
to bring you my great friend,
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-Louis Armstrong.
-[applause]
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[trumpet playing jazz melody]
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["Black and Blue" playing]
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[Wynton Marsalis] The whole world
embraced Louis Armstrong.
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He was bringing a gift,
the gift of a presentness
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and a naturalness and a depth of insight.
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And the ability to act
on those insights in the moment.
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And it was in a difficult form like music.
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And that type of electric virtuosity
has not been seen before or since.
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[Archie Shepp] Without him,
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many things that happen today in jazz
would not be possible.
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And I think that Mr. Armstrong
has not gotten a good deal
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of the credit that's due to him.
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[Count Basie] He has been
the number one man in his department.
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He is really the ambassador
of the whole thing,
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so there will never
be another one like this.
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[singing "Black and Blue"]
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[vocalizing]
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[singing continues]
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[Lucille Armstrong]
Well, he was a very, very deep person.
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He was very much aware
of world activities,
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what was happening everywhere.
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We would have our discussions at home.
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He had been asked
by many reporters in interviews
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what did he think
about a certain particular thing.
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And Louis would say, "Well, man,
you know, I'm just a musician."
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He never would come out publicly
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because his, uh, theory was that
"what I say carries a lot of weight."
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And he says, "And I just won't do it."
But at home, he had his opinions.
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[singing continues]
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[Louis Armstrong] American people,
they the most grandest people on Earth.
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And I'm from America,
well, quite naturally…
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[stammers] …I don't have no fucking flag
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other than a Black flag. [laughs]
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[song ends]
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[audience cheering]
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[Armstrong] Thank you, folks.
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Thank you.
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♪ Now I'll be glad when you're dead
You rascal you ♪
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♪ I'll be glad when you're dead
You rascal you ♪
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♪ Boy, when you're laying six feet deep ♪
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♪ No more fried chicken will you eat ♪
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[laughs]
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♪ Oh, you dog ♪
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♪ I know that'll break your heart ♪
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[Marsalis] My father would say,
"You have to check Pops out."
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I was going, "Man, I don't want Pops."
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In New Orleans, too,
where so much what we call
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"Uncle Tomming" goes on.
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Playing Dixie, shuffling.
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In my time, I hated that
with an unbelievable passion.
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When I was growing up,
there was no way for me to even express
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the type of anger and hatred I had
toward that type of behavior.
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So, I could not appreciate Armstrong.
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But when I left New Orleans,
and I was in New York at that time,
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my father sent me a tape.
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He said, "Man, why don't you learn
one of these Pops solos?"
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[upbeat jazz music playing]
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So I put it on
and I started to work on it.
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Man, I could not play this solo at all.
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Just the endurance
of-- of Louis Armstrong.
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He never stopped playing.
He was always up around high B's.
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And when we got to the final chorus,
I-- I called my father.
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I said,
"Man, I didn't understand about Pops."
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He just started laughing.
He said, "That's right."
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[Dan Morgenstern]
Louis loved his home in Queens.
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Some people said
that it wasn't palatial enough.
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And he didn't wanna move anywhere else.
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When tape came on the scene,
Louis became enamored of that.
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And he used it most of all
for conversations.
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He had friends come to the house,
and he would tape it.
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[Steve Allen] Louis had a lot of what
I would describe as archival materials.
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I mean, tapes and-- and things like that.
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[Lucille] He had his own study.
It was taboo to everyone.
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That was his. He'd close that door
and nobody bothered him.
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He had his tapes
and everything of his was in there.
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[Marsalis] I've heard a lot of
reel-to-reels of Pops just talking.
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Everyday life recordings.
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His humanity comes through.
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[Armstrong]
I got tapes on my wall in my den.
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For 40 years, Lucille had
one of them Tandbergs
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put up there with two tapes together.
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That really knocked me out
because we couldn't afford no den
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in, uh, them early days.
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No, we've gotta sleep in that room.
[laughs]
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-[interviewer 1] Now you got a den.
-Now I got a den.
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I got all of my tapes around the walls
and just pick out what I wanna hear.
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[Lucille] He was the busiest person,
taking care of things when he was home.
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It was his relaxation.
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He would sit up in his study
for hours and hours,
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indexing his tapes.
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[Fred Ware] And he has a hobby
of cutting out pictures,
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you know, and paste them up on the ceiling
in his den, all over the walls.
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[Lucille]
I've got scrapbooks that Louis had
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that were made up when he first played
the Palladium back in '32.
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Most of the pictures and the newspaper
write-ups have gone yellow.
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[Ricky Riccardi]
People asked all the time,
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"Why is he recording these tapes?
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Why is he writing down
all of his thoughts?"
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And all this kind of stuff.
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He knew that one day they were gonna
write about him in the history books.
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And so he wanted to make sure
all sides of him-- good, bad, ugly--
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were gonna be captured
and preserved by himself.
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Not by anybody else.
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Hello, folks.
This is old Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong.
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I just finished this concert here and, uh,
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I feel good 'cause, uh,
I had a nice supper of Wiener schnitzels.
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Uh… [laughs]
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Glad to see you around
and, uh, dig the concerts.
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We've been playing every night
around the neighborhood cities.
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So, later. Goodbye.
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[singing "Mack the Knife"]
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[Edward Murrow] Louis Armstrong is
the prime minister of the world of jazz.
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He and his trumpet are at the summit.
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His European concerts
have broken all records.
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Satchmo is one of our more valuable items
for export.
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His recordings are hot
on both sides of the iron curtain.
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[song continues]
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[interviewer 2] Satchmo,
you always draw an audience, don't you?
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Yeah, man. That shows you
there's cats in all walks of life.
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[laughs]
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[Morgenstern] He broke so many barriers.
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He would be the first Black performer
to open up a club,
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a ballroom, a radio station.
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He was the first Black movie performer
to have his name above the title.
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[crowd cheering]
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[Murrow] Don't you ever get tired?
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[Armstrong] Well, daddy,
I'm just a little beat from my youth.
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You had quite a session here tonight.
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Yeah, we just start playing it the same
as we did in the tailgates in New Orleans.
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-Mm-hmm.
-It's the same music.
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And it's, uh, universal, daddy.
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♪ Yes, way down yonder in New Orleans ♪
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♪ Man, you should have made
All those scenes ♪
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[Nas] "Just saying 'Hello, folks'
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over a microphone sounds simple
and innocent, doesn't it?
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But I remember when it wasn't so simple.
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Back in 1931,
I was invited to play in my hometown,
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New Orleans, at a fancy nightclub,
the Suburban Gardens."
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[Danny Barker] You spent a lot of time
in New Orleans, in the South,
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looking for signs.
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You see a restroom that said,
"White Gentlemen."
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This always was a put-down.
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So, you saw that flashing
in your face all the time.
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[train horn blares]
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[George James] The only way
Louis would agree to go to New Orleans
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was on his own private train.
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Which meant that we could have
our private car, our cooks,
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chefs, porters and things like that.
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[Armstrong]
In New Orleans, we're, quite naturally,
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the first band on the radio down there…
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[radio announcer]
Fleischmann's Yeast presents
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another great half hour of entertainment,
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featuring music by Louis Armstrong
and his orchestra.
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[Armstrong] And you never heard
of no spade playing on no radio
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in those days. Just starting.
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The night we opened,
there's all the white boys
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that I was raised with, you know.
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Sitting up there, sharp. [stammers]
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They done got rich.
Maybe their fathers done left 'em the--
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the produce places and different things
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that when we was kids
we used to hang around.
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And after school, we'd go out in the lots
and play cowboys and Indians
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with old broken slates
and things like that.
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-You know what I mean? We--
-[Cavett] Mm-hmm.
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We was the Indians, of course.
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[audience laughs]
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[James] And at that time,
there was no mixing of the races at all.
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The only way
our people could hear the band
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was to come out
and sit along the levee and hear--
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and hear the music from the--
from a distance.
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[Armstrong] They had 50,000 Negroes
on the levee to hear my music.
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See, and I had been away
about nine or ten years
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and, uh, I done got northern-fied.
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I done forgot about a whole lot of
that foolishness down there, you know?
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The night we're opening, and I'm charming,
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-and there's-- place pack and jam.
-[audience laughs]
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But this night, they done brought
this man up to-- "It's a big deal, now.
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You-- You bring on Louis Armstrong.
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He's a New Orleans boy
and blah, blah, blah."
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But… [stammers] …a second before
this cat had to go to that mic
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and bring me on, he walked away.
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Say, "I just can't introduce that nigger.
Can't do it."
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They got me and told me what he says.
I said, "Well, don't worry about it."
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You know?
I said, "Give me that card, boys."
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And I walked to that mic.
And when I went into…
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♪ Pale moon shining ♪
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Man, you thought the walls was coming in.
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♪ Now the pale moon's shining ♪
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♪ On the fields below ♪
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♪ The folks are crooning soft and low ♪
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♪ You needn't tell me, boy ♪
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♪ Because I know, yes ♪
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♪ When it's sleepy time down South, yes ♪
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[Armstrong]
And this announcer's standing there.
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He said, "I didn't know this would happen
in the South in New Orleans.
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Never happened before."
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So, they fired him and everything,
and I took over myself.
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[audience laughing]
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[applause]
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♪ Good evening, everybody ♪
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[audience cheering, whistling]
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[Marsalis] It was particularly galling
for him to go home
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after being lionized the way he was
around the world
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and see the same type of prejudice.
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His feelings were perpetually hurt
by the nation
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and the injustice that he knew
when he was a boy.
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Pops grew up very hard.
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[interviewer 3] It's been said, Pops,
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that you were brought up
in abject poverty.
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You didn't have money
when you were a kid, though.
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[Armstrong] We always had money.
I could shoot craps, sold newspapers,
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and I always hustled on the, uh--
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with the quartet and a little guitar,
just sit and go busking.
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And I always had a pocket full of money.
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You know, in 1915, you had five dollars,
you had a whole lot of money.
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And I didn't ever have
to beg nobody for nothing all my life.
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Always a kid that had
some get-up about him.
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[Armstrong] I was born in, uh--
in James Alley, they called it.
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It's… [stammers] …uh, back of town.
That's the-- the real New Orleans.
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We have a photo of your mama
I wanna show everybody.
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-Yeah. That's my mother there, Mayann.
-[Douglas] How did she discipline you?
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What did she do
when you did something wrong?
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[Armstrong]
She had to whip the hell out of us both.
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[audience laughing]
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And, man, she hit me like a man.
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And then she married Willie Armstrong.
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I mean, I'm only going by
what they tell me along that line.
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'Cause as long as I can remember,
they wasn't together.
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We didn't have much money
and things like that.
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But we lived and, uh,
enjoyed good food. And--
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-[Douglas] You had a lot of fun?
-Yeah.
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My mother could take 15 cents
and go to the Poydras Market
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and come back and cook a meal.
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And you had to lick your fingers,
it was just so good.
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-You know what I mean? Yes, sir.
-For 15 cents?
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In those days, you could take a newspaper,
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and I'd go to the fish market
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and buy a whole newspaper
full of fish heads.
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Just plain, chopped-off fish heads
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that, uh,
they wouldn't use, they put aside.
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[Douglas] Yeah.
That'd be garbage for them, wouldn't it?
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Well, they just ain't got time
to do what we did with--
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-[Douglas] Yeah.
-My mother would get them fish heads
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and cook 'em
and put a lot of canned tomatoes in 'em
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and call it court bouillon
and serve it on top of some rice.
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Boy, you talking about beautiful food.
And delicious.
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And the next morning,
I'd go to school with a cabbage sandwich.
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-Kids would be begging for a bite.
-[audience laughs]
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-No kidding?
-Absolutely. Yeah.
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[Jelly Roll Morton]
New Orleans was a stomping ground.
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Well, they played every type of music.
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Everyone, no doubt, had a different style.
They had every class.
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We had Spanish.
We had coloreds. We had whites.
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[Armstrong] I was working
for some Jewish people at seven years old.
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They had, uh, a rags-and-bones yard.
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And then we used to go down
to the red-light district
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and deliver stone coal,
five cents a water bucket.
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♪ I've got those coal cart blues ♪
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♪ I'm really all confused ♪
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♪ I'm 'bout to lose my very mind ♪
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♪ It always worry, worry me all the time ♪
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[Humphrey Lyttleton]
The center of entertainment in New Orleans
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was Storyville,
the notorious red-light district.
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[Nas] "The Negroes were only allowed
to work in the red-light district.
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Most of the help was Negroes.
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They were paid good salaries
and had a longtime job.
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The pay was swell
no matter what your vocation was.
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No mixing at the guest tables at no time.
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As far as to buy a little trim,
that was absolutely out of the question."
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[Armstrong] Down in the district,
the red-light district.
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As you call them, "prostitutes,"
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where they get five dollars for a job,
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the whores where I'm talking about,
up in my neighborhood,
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they get, uh, 50 cents to a dollar.
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Well, quite naturally,
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they're standing there with nothing on
but a-- a chemise.
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We'd call 'em teddies at the time,
you know. [chuckles]
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So, there I'd be, a little boy,
and put some coal on the grates, you know.
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Quite naturally,
you gotta take a mug there right quick.
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If they'd seen me,
they'd have slapped me down.
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Yeah, I actually did all that.
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[chuckles] But I-- I used to hear
all that good music too.
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[Armstrong] That's how I got a chance
to hear Bunk Johnson,
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Manuel Perez, and all the best bands
and everything, you see?
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[interviewer 4]
They were all in the red-light district?
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[Armstrong]
Yeah, they-- Each corner had a band.
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Cabarets, they called them, see?
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And we'd dance. [laughs]
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And I'd be waving at 'em all.
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And when they'd go inside,
we had to go to bed and sleep. [chuckles]
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[narrator] New Year's Eve, 1912.
Louis and his pals were out on the street.
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And they were celebrating
and making noise like everybody else.
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And somehow,
Louis got hold of a .38 revolver.
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I found this pistol. Uh, got blanks in it.
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But the noise is what everybody give you.
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So when I look around,
a little guy was shooting
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a little old six-shooter
across the street. Uh, you know.
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[imitating gunshots]
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So, I was singing in a little quartet,
you know,
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we used to go around
and pass the hat, you know.
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And they called me Dipper at that time.
Dippermouth, you know.
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They say, "Get him, Dipper."
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And I reached up there
to grab the .38 and…
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[imitating gunshots]
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…and brighten it up
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until that detective was hugging me
and-and I said, "Oh…"
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[Armstrong] In those days,
the cops would whip your head
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and then ask you your name afterwards,
you know?
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And, uh, you think
that's something that's, uh, changed?
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Well, I haven't been down there
in so long. I'm gonna go down and see.
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[both laugh]
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And I couldn't get away from him.
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He took me down to the juvenile court
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and, uh, then, the next day,
they took me out to the orphanage.
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It-- It was called
Colored Waif's Home for Boys.
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[interviewer 5]
When was the first time in your life
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that you actually picked up a horn?
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[Armstrong] Oh, that was, uh, you know,
when I went to the orphanage.
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I was about 13.
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This is the first horn
that Louis Armstrong ever owned.
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We did not have much money,
but we are proud of encouraging him.
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[Armstrong]
The little brass band was very good,
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and Mr. Davis made the boys play
a little of every kind of music.
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[host] When he first arrived at your home,
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could you tell right away
he wanted to be a musician?
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-We could, yes.
-How could you tell that?
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-Because he organized quartets, singing…
-[host] Mm-hmm.
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…then he introduced dancing out there,
tap dancing.
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The boys would clap and sing,
and he'd sing and dance.
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Then when I did get him to play
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"When the Saints Go Marching In,"
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"Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet,"
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there was a high note to be out on
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-because it was at the end of the strain.
-[host] Yeah.
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None of the other boys couldn't make it.
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-And I couldn't make it myself.
-Mm-hmm.
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But he would blow the high C
above the staff
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to let us know
that's the end of the strain.
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[Armstrong]
Every day I practiced faithfully
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on the lessons Mr. Davis gave me.
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I became so good on the cornet
that one day Mr. Davis said to me,
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"Louis, I'm going to make you
leader of the band."
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I jumped straight up into the air.
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[Bigard] You see, what people don't
understand, in New Orleans,
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the majority of the musicians
haven't had the opportunity
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of having a teacher.
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And they only pick up an instrument
and just fool around with it
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until they begin to try to get
some kind of tone or notes out of it.
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And that's how they started.
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[Armstrong]
We had military training in the orphanage.
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And "Star-Spangled Banner,"
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we was taught that
that was our national anthem.
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And you're supposed to stand up
and salute.
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And I was taught to play that tune
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with every spark I had in my soul.
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On our lands we was taught.
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And when we play it,
that's the feeling I have.
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And then they hoist that flag.
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[vocalizing "The Star-Spangled Banner"]
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Note for note, I still remember.
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[continues vocalizing song]
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[interviewer 6] Do you have
a happy feeling when you play that song?
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[Armstrong] I feel that I'm somebody.
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Yeah.
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When I finish playing
"Star-Spangled Banner,"
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I feel just as proud as anybody that--
that ever picked up a gun,
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shouldered a rifle,
and said, "Forward march."
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[people cheering]
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[band plays "Star-Spangled Banner"]
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[Morgenstern] I was with James Baldwin,
listening to Louis,
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and he played a great set.
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And then he ended with
"The Star-Spangled Banner."
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And James turned to me, and he said,
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"You know, that's the first time
I've liked that song."
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What he heard from Louis
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did away with all the stuff
that was accumulated around it.
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And just in the purity
that Louis brought to it
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made him appreciate it.
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[Riccardi] Everybody talks about Hendrix
and "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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[guitar playing "Star-Spangled Banner"]
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But Armstrong was performing it
as early as World War II.
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You know, right after Pearl Harbor,
he started putting it in his repertoire.
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And he is going on stage
and pouring his soul into that song.
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And there's pride,
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but there's also a tremendous amount
of hurt every time you hear him play it.
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[Marsalis] Louis Armstrong was coming
from a 40-year memory of what slavery was.
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He understood that there was
a battle in this country,
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so he was trying to use his music
to transform and reform
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and lead the country
closer to its higher ideals.
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[trumpet playing "Star-Spangled Banner"]
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[interviewer 7] Who, if anybody, was
the biggest influence on your early life?
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-What, in music?
-[interviewer 7] In music.
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[Armstrong] King Oliver.
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'Cause I-- Outside of the Waif's Home…
[stammers] …the orphanage.
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When I got out, he took me over.
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And he always told me, "Never play a lot
of that jiujitsu music.
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Play the lead. You got a good tone,
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and you know how to phrase,
and it says something."
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And I carried his cornet
when he wasn't blowing and marching.
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And the police would have been
running me out the parade.
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You know, I stayed with him on it.
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But that's my man.
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You play in that hot sun,
you know, with that uniform on,
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and he put a hanky on his neck
to keep the sun off his neck.
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And he was really blowing that horn.
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["Snake Rag" playing]
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[radio reporter] When the authorities
closed down sinful old Storyville,
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more than 200 musicians suddenly
found themselves out of work.
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King Oliver had left town
anyhow for Chicago,
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where they had heard
that their kind of music,
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called jazz up north,
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was getting very popular.
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[Nas] "I have always been crazy
over Joe Oliver and his playing.
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So when Joe sent for me
to join him in Chicago,
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I was happy
because I knew I'd feel at home
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and he'd see after me."
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[Barker] Chicago was about
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the second most popular section
for Black people in the country.
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It was a great migration point
where people went off
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from Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas.
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You could walk to Chicago,
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just keep walking
if you had enough muscles in your legs.
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[Armstrong] I'd have gone back home
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if I knew I'd be pushed out
into all them tall buildings.
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Finally, I went to the Lincoln Garden
and, uh…
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played that music.
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I was so happy I did not know what to do.
I had hit the big time.
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I was up north with the greats.
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I was playing with my idol, the king.
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All of my boyhood dreams
had come true at last.
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[Lil Hardin] All along, I'd been hearing
from all the musicians about Little Louis,
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and what a good trumpet player
he was gonna be.
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So, when he brought Little Louis over
to Dreamland to meet me,
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Little Louis was 226 pounds. [chuckles]
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So I said, "Little Louis?
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How come you call him Little Louis
as big as he is?"
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I wasn't impressed at all.
I was very disappointed.
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I probably would have never
paid any attention to Louis's playing
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if King Oliver hadn't said to me one night
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that Louis could play better
than he could.
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He says,
"But as long as I keep him with me,
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he won't be able to get ahead of me.
I'll still be the king."
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After he told me that,
I started listening.
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But when we got this recording date
in Richmond, Indiana, for Gennett,
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in trying to get the balance,
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Joe and Louis stood
right next to each other,
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as they always had,
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and you couldn't hear a note
that Joe was playing
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and only could hear Louis.
463
00:28:11,191 --> 00:28:13,026
So he said, "Well, I gotta do something."
464
00:28:13,110 --> 00:28:17,072
So they put Louis about 15 feet away,
over in the corner, from the band.
465
00:28:17,823 --> 00:28:21,785
And, uh, Louis was sitting in the co--
standing in the corner, looking so sad.
466
00:28:21,869 --> 00:28:24,705
You know, he thought it was bad for him
to have to be separated from the band.
467
00:28:24,788 --> 00:28:26,707
And so, I-- I looked at him and smiled
468
00:28:26,790 --> 00:28:28,917
to reassure him
that he was all right, you know.
469
00:28:29,501 --> 00:28:30,961
And then I said to myself,
470
00:28:31,044 --> 00:28:36,842
"Now, if, uh, they have to put him
that far away in order to hear Joe,
471
00:28:36,925 --> 00:28:38,218
he's gotta be better."
472
00:28:38,302 --> 00:28:39,469
Then I was convinced.
473
00:28:43,932 --> 00:28:46,810
Then Louis and I started getting
to be sweethearts.
474
00:28:46,894 --> 00:28:48,687
Then we decided to get married.
475
00:28:49,563 --> 00:28:53,442
I told him, I said, "Now, I don't want
to be married to a second trumpet player."
476
00:28:53,525 --> 00:28:54,818
He says, "What are you talking about?"
477
00:28:54,902 --> 00:28:57,237
I said, "Well, I don't want
to be married to second trumpet.
478
00:28:57,321 --> 00:28:58,530
I want you to play first."
479
00:28:58,614 --> 00:29:00,782
He said, "Well, I can't play first.
Joe's playing first."
480
00:29:00,866 --> 00:29:02,534
I said, "Well, that's why you gotta quit."
481
00:29:02,618 --> 00:29:04,119
He said, "I can't quit Mr. Joe.
482
00:29:04,203 --> 00:29:06,580
Mr. Joe sent for me,
and I can't quit him."
483
00:29:06,663 --> 00:29:09,041
I said, "Well, it's Mr. Joe or me."
[chuckles]
484
00:29:12,419 --> 00:29:16,131
[Armstrong]
I listened very carefully when Lil told me
485
00:29:16,215 --> 00:29:18,634
to always play the lead.
486
00:29:18,717 --> 00:29:21,803
[Doc Cheatham]
He played 30 or 50 high notes, high C's,
487
00:29:21,887 --> 00:29:23,847
on this one tune they were playing.
488
00:29:23,931 --> 00:29:27,309
And the next day, everybody on the street
was talking about it.
489
00:29:31,897 --> 00:29:34,107
[Lil Hardin] People would come
to two or three shows
490
00:29:34,191 --> 00:29:35,984
waiting for him to miss it one day.
[chuckles]
491
00:29:36,068 --> 00:29:37,110
So, he said to me,
492
00:29:37,194 --> 00:29:39,404
"Do you know people are coming
to the show four or five times
493
00:29:39,488 --> 00:29:40,948
to hear me miss that F?"
494
00:29:41,031 --> 00:29:43,367
I said, "Yeah?
Well, make some G's at home."
495
00:29:43,992 --> 00:29:47,120
So, he started blowing around the house.
[imitating trumpet]
496
00:29:47,204 --> 00:29:49,039
I said, "Oh, my God. Why did I say that?"
497
00:29:52,626 --> 00:29:55,379
[announcer] He never misses hitting
that high note, does he, folks?
498
00:29:55,462 --> 00:29:57,422
[Riccardi]
Armstrong extends the range of the horn,
499
00:29:57,506 --> 00:30:00,050
ending every show
with hundreds of high C's.
500
00:30:00,133 --> 00:30:03,929
Just from that, more and more musicians
start playing higher notes.
501
00:30:04,012 --> 00:30:06,932
He really perfects the art
of improvisation.
502
00:30:07,015 --> 00:30:08,517
He shows the world what it could be.
503
00:30:09,685 --> 00:30:11,854
[Lucille] Tommy Rockwell had heard him,
504
00:30:11,937 --> 00:30:17,359
so it was he who suggested
that he form an, uh, recording outfit.
505
00:30:17,442 --> 00:30:21,697
And as a result, it was called,
uh, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five.
506
00:30:21,780 --> 00:30:23,615
["Gut Bucket Blues" playing]
507
00:30:27,744 --> 00:30:29,872
[musician] Oh, do that thing, Papa Dip.
508
00:30:30,581 --> 00:30:32,457
[interviewer 8]
You didn't work in clubs with the--
509
00:30:32,541 --> 00:30:36,003
[Armstrong] No, we never did,
uh, think about nothing like that.
510
00:30:36,086 --> 00:30:40,507
Uh, we just, uh, make up them things
and, uh, scat. [stammering] Yeah.
511
00:30:40,591 --> 00:30:41,967
[interviewer 8]
Wait. "Make up them things."
512
00:30:42,050 --> 00:30:43,468
-What do you mean?
-Make up those tunes.
513
00:30:43,552 --> 00:30:45,554
-[interviewer 8] Just in the studio?
-Yeah, sure.
514
00:30:45,637 --> 00:30:47,222
♪ Say, don't you know it ♪
515
00:30:47,306 --> 00:30:49,016
[scatting]
516
00:30:49,099 --> 00:30:51,435
[Cavett] There's a rumor that you
invented scat. Is that true?
517
00:30:51,518 --> 00:30:56,064
[Armstrong] Well, they claim
when we was recording "Heebie Jeebies,"
518
00:30:56,148 --> 00:30:58,150
we get down
to this part for the second chorus,
519
00:30:58,233 --> 00:30:59,526
and I drop the paper.
520
00:30:59,610 --> 00:31:02,237
President in the control booth, he says,
"Keep on singing."
521
00:31:02,321 --> 00:31:03,155
-See?
-[Cavett] Yeah.
522
00:31:03,238 --> 00:31:06,116
Well, that, uh, brought back memories
of when I was a kid,
523
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:07,659
going around in the quartet.
524
00:31:07,743 --> 00:31:09,912
You know, Rampart Street in New Orleans.
525
00:31:10,412 --> 00:31:12,748
Whenever we'd get to a part
we didn't know the words,
526
00:31:12,831 --> 00:31:15,667
we'd go to scatting
and blowing like a trumpet,
527
00:31:15,751 --> 00:31:16,752
or something like that.
528
00:31:16,835 --> 00:31:19,129
-[Cavett] Mm-hmm.
-And it came to me just like that.
529
00:31:19,213 --> 00:31:22,007
[Armstrong scatting]
530
00:31:24,885 --> 00:31:27,095
[Marsalis] When he's scatting,
the notes he's picking,
531
00:31:27,179 --> 00:31:29,389
and how sophisticated
the melodies he's creating--
532
00:31:29,473 --> 00:31:31,350
Louis Armstrong is never out of tune.
533
00:31:31,433 --> 00:31:34,019
He could do with his voice
what he could do with his horn.
534
00:31:34,102 --> 00:31:36,313
[Stanley Crouch]
When people sang in those days,
535
00:31:36,396 --> 00:31:38,941
they often sang
in a very corny manner like…
536
00:31:39,024 --> 00:31:40,567
♪ And I love you ♪
537
00:31:41,068 --> 00:31:42,736
♪ And you and me ♪
538
00:31:42,819 --> 00:31:44,321
♪ And the baby makes three ♪
539
00:31:44,404 --> 00:31:46,823
-♪ Dinah ♪
-[vocalizing]
540
00:31:46,907 --> 00:31:50,953
-♪ Is there anyone finer ♪
-[vocalizing]
541
00:31:51,036 --> 00:31:54,957
-♪ In the state of Carolina? ♪
-[vocalizing]
542
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,459
♪ If there is and you know her
Know her ♪
543
00:31:57,543 --> 00:31:58,794
[harmonizing]
544
00:31:58,877 --> 00:32:01,004
[Marsalis] But Armstrong came in
with another kind of thing
545
00:32:01,088 --> 00:32:02,631
where he had that kind of…
546
00:32:02,714 --> 00:32:04,466
[vocalizing]
547
00:32:04,550 --> 00:32:06,718
…you know. [vocalizing]
548
00:32:06,802 --> 00:32:08,554
♪ Oh, Dinah ♪
549
00:32:08,637 --> 00:32:11,890
♪ Is there anyone finer
In the state of Carolina? ♪
550
00:32:11,974 --> 00:32:14,601
♪ If there is and you know
Show me ♪
551
00:32:14,685 --> 00:32:16,854
♪ Dinah
With her Dixie eyes blazin' ♪
552
00:32:16,937 --> 00:32:18,605
♪ How I love to sit and gaze ♪
553
00:32:18,689 --> 00:32:20,524
♪ Into the eyes of Dinah Lee ♪
554
00:32:20,607 --> 00:32:21,984
♪ Babe, every night ♪
555
00:32:22,067 --> 00:32:23,861
♪ When I shake with fright, oh ♪
556
00:32:23,944 --> 00:32:25,946
♪ 'Cause my Dinah might
Change her mind ♪
557
00:32:26,029 --> 00:32:28,115
[scatting]
558
00:32:28,198 --> 00:32:31,243
[Riccardi] Armstrong completely changes
the way people sing.
559
00:32:31,326 --> 00:32:33,912
I'm talking soul singing.
I'm talking Ray Charles.
560
00:32:33,996 --> 00:32:36,373
I'm talking Sam Cooke.
I'm talking James Brown.
561
00:32:36,456 --> 00:32:40,169
I'm talking hip-hop. I'm talking funk.
I'm talking pop music.
562
00:32:40,252 --> 00:32:42,254
I'm talking rock and roll.
I'm talking the Beatles.
563
00:32:42,337 --> 00:32:45,507
[chuckles]
Anybody who has basically uttered a sound
564
00:32:45,591 --> 00:32:49,720
on American pop radio
in the last 90 years,
565
00:32:49,803 --> 00:32:52,431
it's because
of Louis Armstrong's innovations.
566
00:32:52,514 --> 00:32:54,391
[trumpet playing jazz melody]
567
00:32:56,810 --> 00:32:57,936
[trumpet plays high note]
568
00:33:08,739 --> 00:33:10,449
[Leonard Feather] I met Louis on records.
569
00:33:10,532 --> 00:33:13,535
That "West End Blues"
was a very, very moving experience,
570
00:33:13,619 --> 00:33:16,121
and it actually made a jazz fan out of me
571
00:33:16,205 --> 00:33:19,666
and ultimately found the direction
for my whole career,
572
00:33:19,750 --> 00:33:21,460
as it did for so many people.
573
00:33:22,127 --> 00:33:23,921
"West End Blues"
was a miniature masterpiece.
574
00:33:29,843 --> 00:33:34,264
[Artie Shaw] I would say that
jazz almost stems from Louis Armstrong.
575
00:33:34,348 --> 00:33:35,849
People are accustomed to saying,
576
00:33:35,933 --> 00:33:38,393
and I've heard it said a lot,
that he was a genius.
577
00:33:38,477 --> 00:33:41,396
Uh, but very few people talk about
why he was a genius
578
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,608
and what it was
that his particular form of genius did.
579
00:33:49,613 --> 00:33:52,491
I could say now
that what he was really doing
580
00:33:53,033 --> 00:33:55,869
was playing music
for which there was no accounting
581
00:33:55,953 --> 00:33:57,829
in his immediate environment.
582
00:33:57,913 --> 00:34:01,625
[Shepp] Louis Armstrong is
the first important soloist
583
00:34:01,708 --> 00:34:06,380
because he is the first to break away
from Western harmony
584
00:34:07,172 --> 00:34:10,175
and to reintroduce the melodic
585
00:34:10,259 --> 00:34:13,929
and rhythmic developments
of-- of African music.
586
00:34:19,976 --> 00:34:20,978
Stop it! Stop it!
587
00:34:21,061 --> 00:34:23,438
You are playing notes
between flat and natural.
588
00:34:23,522 --> 00:34:27,484
It's like discovering, uh, a secret scale
just made for this type of music.
589
00:34:27,568 --> 00:34:31,822
The so-called jazz scale is used
only melodically.
590
00:34:31,905 --> 00:34:33,156
That is, in the tune.
591
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:37,786
In the harmony underneath,
we still use our old unflatted notes
592
00:34:38,954 --> 00:34:41,415
against the flatted note in the tune.
593
00:34:41,498 --> 00:34:43,708
So that causes a dissonance to happen.
594
00:34:43,792 --> 00:34:45,668
Jazz pianists are always using
this dissonance.
595
00:34:45,752 --> 00:34:47,129
I'm sure it sounds familiar to you.
596
00:34:47,212 --> 00:34:49,505
-[plays piano]
-And there's a reason for it.
597
00:34:49,590 --> 00:34:53,010
It's because they are looking for a note
that isn't actually there,
598
00:34:53,510 --> 00:34:56,054
but which lies somewhere between the two.
599
00:34:56,554 --> 00:34:58,307
This is called a quarter tone.
600
00:34:59,057 --> 00:35:03,604
The quarter tone comes to us from Africa,
which is, after all, the cradle of jazz
601
00:35:04,188 --> 00:35:06,857
and where quarter tones
are everyday stuff.
602
00:35:06,940 --> 00:35:08,734
Now, ladies and gentlemen,
603
00:35:08,817 --> 00:35:11,361
we gonna take a little trip
through the jungles this time,
604
00:35:11,862 --> 00:35:13,572
and we want y'all to travel with us.
605
00:35:14,198 --> 00:35:16,658
That tiger's running so fast.
606
00:35:16,742 --> 00:35:20,287
Gonna take a few choruses to catch him,
so I want y'all to count with me.
607
00:35:20,370 --> 00:35:21,371
Yes, sir.
608
00:35:21,455 --> 00:35:24,208
Because this son-of-a-trumpet
is gonna get away from you this time.
609
00:35:24,291 --> 00:35:26,251
Lay it out there, boys. I'm ready.
610
00:35:31,131 --> 00:35:34,593
[Lyttleton] At this time in his career,
Louis was having problems with managers,
611
00:35:34,676 --> 00:35:37,471
and, inevitably,
the gangsters took a hand in his affairs.
612
00:35:39,765 --> 00:35:41,767
There were certain interests in New York
613
00:35:41,850 --> 00:35:43,644
who thought the trumpet king
belonged there.
614
00:35:46,230 --> 00:35:49,191
[Armstrong] The gangster
which was the toughest man in, uh--
615
00:35:49,274 --> 00:35:51,818
in Chicago at that time, Frankie Foster,
616
00:35:51,902 --> 00:35:54,154
he said, "You know
you're going to New York tomorrow?"
617
00:35:54,238 --> 00:35:56,657
I told him,
"I didn't know nothing about that.
618
00:35:56,740 --> 00:35:58,242
Nobody told me nothing about it."
619
00:35:58,325 --> 00:36:00,244
I said, "Excuse me a minute.
I'm going back on the stand."
620
00:36:00,327 --> 00:36:01,954
He said,
"You're going to New York tomorrow."
621
00:36:02,037 --> 00:36:04,665
-That's when he pulled that .45.
-[acquaintance] Mmm.
622
00:36:05,165 --> 00:36:08,001
[Armstrong] I said,
"Well, maybe I am going to New York."
623
00:36:08,085 --> 00:36:10,712
[acquaintances laugh]
624
00:36:10,796 --> 00:36:13,757
[Feather] The whole business end
of music at that time
625
00:36:13,841 --> 00:36:15,759
was controlled by white people.
626
00:36:15,843 --> 00:36:17,010
They were not all crooks.
627
00:36:17,094 --> 00:36:18,804
They were not all
manipulating Black people,
628
00:36:18,887 --> 00:36:20,806
but, uh, quite a few of them were.
629
00:36:20,889 --> 00:36:23,183
It was very difficult for a Black musician
630
00:36:23,267 --> 00:36:26,436
not to be very bitter
about the entire system at that time.
631
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,106
But Louis was one of those few,
rare people
632
00:36:29,189 --> 00:36:31,275
that never gave the impression
of being bitter,
633
00:36:31,358 --> 00:36:32,943
whether it was under the surface or not.
634
00:36:33,026 --> 00:36:36,989
[Armstrong] Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen. I'm Mr. Armstrong.
635
00:36:37,781 --> 00:36:41,076
And we're gonna swing
one of the good old good ones for you.
636
00:36:41,159 --> 00:36:44,037
Beautiful number,
"I Cover the Waterfront."
637
00:36:44,121 --> 00:36:46,456
"I Cover the Waterfront," I like it.
638
00:36:46,540 --> 00:36:48,542
[mumbles]
639
00:36:48,625 --> 00:36:49,626
One, two.
640
00:36:49,710 --> 00:36:52,713
[band playing "I Cover The Waterfront"]
641
00:37:02,639 --> 00:37:05,267
[singing]
642
00:37:16,153 --> 00:37:19,531
[Armstrong]
In 1932, first time I went to Europe.
643
00:37:20,616 --> 00:37:22,618
We used to travel by boats.
644
00:37:22,701 --> 00:37:24,995
Johnny Collins was my manager then.
645
00:37:25,495 --> 00:37:27,664
[interviewer 9] Didn't they give you
the name of Satchmo over here?
646
00:37:27,748 --> 00:37:29,416
Yeah. Given by, uh, Fuzzy Brooks.
647
00:37:29,917 --> 00:37:32,836
Uh, he was the editor
of the Melody Maker at that time.
648
00:37:33,629 --> 00:37:37,257
When I arrived in Plymouth,
England, on the ship,
649
00:37:37,341 --> 00:37:39,718
and then somebody's going up there,
"Hello, Satchmo."
650
00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:43,889
When I went all through Europe
and everything with different cats,
651
00:37:43,972 --> 00:37:46,433
you know, trying to be managing things,
652
00:37:46,517 --> 00:37:48,936
I said, "These are the people
I don't want to be bothered with.
653
00:37:49,019 --> 00:37:51,522
They're doing everything
but protecting their trumpet."
654
00:37:51,605 --> 00:37:53,273
See, I had a manager who would--
655
00:37:53,357 --> 00:37:55,776
who would grab all the money
out the box office.
656
00:37:55,859 --> 00:37:57,653
You know, that frantic stuff, you know.
657
00:37:57,736 --> 00:37:59,613
I say, "Well, that ain't what I wanna do."
658
00:37:59,696 --> 00:38:02,866
[Briggs] Around about that time
that Louis Armstrong found out
659
00:38:02,950 --> 00:38:08,997
that his managing director, Mr. Collins,
was making, uh, £20,000 a week for him,
660
00:38:09,081 --> 00:38:13,252
and Louis was getting about--
say, about £100 a week.
661
00:38:13,335 --> 00:38:16,129
And he asked for more money,
662
00:38:16,213 --> 00:38:20,342
and Mr. Collins, uh,
he used some beautiful adjectives.
663
00:38:20,425 --> 00:38:23,887
[Armstrong] I said, "Listen, cocksucker,
you might be my manager
664
00:38:23,971 --> 00:38:25,806
and you might be the biggest shit,
665
00:38:26,306 --> 00:38:29,142
and… [stammers] …and book me
in the biggest places in the world,
666
00:38:29,226 --> 00:38:32,229
but when I get out on that fucking stage
with that horn and get in trouble,
667
00:38:32,312 --> 00:38:33,480
you can't save me."
668
00:38:33,564 --> 00:38:35,774
He said, "Take that nigger off the boat."
669
00:38:35,858 --> 00:38:38,235
Got to brawling, goddamn it.
670
00:38:38,318 --> 00:38:39,653
Shit.
671
00:38:39,736 --> 00:38:41,446
[muttering]
672
00:38:41,530 --> 00:38:43,532
They gonna have this shit under control.
673
00:38:44,283 --> 00:38:46,159
And there's a big bottle of wine.
674
00:38:46,243 --> 00:38:47,786
All I had to do was take it like that.
675
00:38:47,870 --> 00:38:50,205
And the bald-headed motherfucker
had his head down.
676
00:38:50,289 --> 00:38:54,626
And said, "I gotta just tap it
like a pansy and kill the motherfucker."
677
00:38:55,377 --> 00:38:57,129
See, but the first thing I thought,
678
00:38:57,212 --> 00:38:59,131
all of them Black cocksuckers in Harlem
who'd say,
679
00:38:59,214 --> 00:39:01,425
"I knew he would blow his top someday."
680
00:39:01,508 --> 00:39:03,844
I don't know why… [indistinct]
"Fuck it. I got this shit."
681
00:39:03,927 --> 00:39:05,929
"Go on and eat your meal, man." [mumbles]
682
00:39:06,013 --> 00:39:08,182
Not that I hadn't been called
a nigger before.
683
00:39:08,682 --> 00:39:10,559
[Trummy Young]
He fired Collins. He got rid of him.
684
00:39:10,642 --> 00:39:12,144
But Collins had a contract on him.
685
00:39:12,227 --> 00:39:15,189
So, Louis remembered
that he had worked for Joe Glaser,
686
00:39:15,272 --> 00:39:18,901
and that Joe Glaser was tied in with some
pretty rough boys around Chicago.
687
00:39:18,984 --> 00:39:23,071
So Louis got in touch with Joe,
and he told Joe, he said,
688
00:39:23,155 --> 00:39:25,699
"I'm having a lot of trouble
with this guy managing me."
689
00:39:25,782 --> 00:39:26,950
He said, "I'm kind of scared."
690
00:39:27,034 --> 00:39:29,161
He said, "I don't know
what he's gonna try to do to me."
691
00:39:29,244 --> 00:39:32,164
He says, um,
"But I want you for my manager."
692
00:39:34,583 --> 00:39:37,794
[Armstrong] The toughest guy
in the honky-tonk that runs the gambling,
693
00:39:37,878 --> 00:39:40,005
he knew I was getting ready
to come up north,
694
00:39:40,506 --> 00:39:42,549
and, uh, this is the pep talk he gave me.
695
00:39:42,633 --> 00:39:46,637
He said, "Look here, son.
I like the way you blow that quail."
696
00:39:47,221 --> 00:39:48,263
Talking about my cornet.
697
00:39:48,347 --> 00:39:50,349
I knew what he was talking about.
I said, "Yeah."
698
00:39:50,432 --> 00:39:52,809
He said, "Now, you go up north
699
00:39:53,685 --> 00:39:59,274
and always have a white man behind you
to say, 'That's my nigger.'"
700
00:39:59,358 --> 00:40:01,443
And that's the way he put it to me.
701
00:40:01,527 --> 00:40:03,570
Now, you can figure that out yourself.
702
00:40:04,404 --> 00:40:05,656
That was the talk.
703
00:40:06,156 --> 00:40:09,243
And Joe Glaser came right in the scene.
704
00:40:09,910 --> 00:40:11,662
-What did the--
-We were just like that.
705
00:40:11,745 --> 00:40:17,000
Because he knew I wanted to blow my horn,
and he saw to that.
706
00:40:17,084 --> 00:40:18,377
I said, "This is my man."
707
00:40:18,460 --> 00:40:20,546
I said,
"You tend to business, Daddy Glaser.
708
00:40:20,629 --> 00:40:22,798
And I'll blow the horn.
And that's where it is."
709
00:40:22,881 --> 00:40:25,217
And it's-- it's been
over twenty-some years
710
00:40:25,801 --> 00:40:28,387
and, uh,
we ain't even signed a contract. [laughs]
711
00:40:29,346 --> 00:40:30,722
[Slim Thompson] Joe Glaser's a nigga.
712
00:40:31,682 --> 00:40:33,809
Joe Glaser loves Negroes.
713
00:40:33,892 --> 00:40:35,394
[Armstrong] He was raised with niggas.
714
00:40:35,477 --> 00:40:38,647
-He went to school with them.
-[Thompson] That's right. That's right.
715
00:40:38,730 --> 00:40:42,484
[Jack Bradley] You know, I always felt
there was a weird relationship
716
00:40:42,568 --> 00:40:44,778
between Joe Glaser and Louis.
717
00:40:44,862 --> 00:40:47,155
And I felt Louis was exploited.
718
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,992
Louis believes that he never would've
made it without Joe Glaser.
719
00:40:50,075 --> 00:40:51,326
[Ray Nance] I think he wouldn't have.
720
00:40:51,410 --> 00:40:54,037
-[Bradley] That's possible?
-[Nance] Quite possible.
721
00:40:54,121 --> 00:40:57,082
You got to have good management.
I don't care how great you are.
722
00:40:57,165 --> 00:41:01,753
Good management goes
hand in hand with success and talent.
723
00:41:01,837 --> 00:41:04,047
[Bradley] He never wanted anything
to do with business, right?
724
00:41:04,131 --> 00:41:06,592
He never even hired the guys in his band.
725
00:41:06,675 --> 00:41:09,178
He just wanted to concentrate
on that horn.
726
00:41:09,261 --> 00:41:10,804
["Struttin' With Some Barbecue" playing]
727
00:41:23,775 --> 00:41:25,694
[Young] Glaser--
On the strength of being with Louis--
728
00:41:25,777 --> 00:41:27,196
Louis used to tell us stories
729
00:41:27,279 --> 00:41:29,865
about they used to ride the bus
down South with Glaser,
730
00:41:29,948 --> 00:41:32,659
and Glaser didn't-- None of them
hardly had enough to eat with.
731
00:41:32,743 --> 00:41:36,121
But on the strength of that,
Louis started getting real popular.
732
00:41:36,205 --> 00:41:39,082
Glaser started getting good PR for Louis.
733
00:41:42,461 --> 00:41:47,341
[Chuck Cecil] By 1935, there were probably
some who hadn't heard of Louis Armstrong,
734
00:41:47,424 --> 00:41:50,135
and perhaps even those few
were erased that year
735
00:41:50,219 --> 00:41:52,721
when he recorded "La Cucaracha,"
736
00:41:52,804 --> 00:41:55,641
"Red Sails in the Sunset,"
"On Treasure Island."
737
00:41:57,142 --> 00:41:58,727
[Feather] In the summer of 1936,
738
00:41:58,810 --> 00:42:01,355
he said to me, "We're going on a tour
of one-night stands.
739
00:42:01,438 --> 00:42:05,150
Why don't you ride along in the bus
so you can see what it's like?"
740
00:42:05,234 --> 00:42:08,862
It was a very exhausting trip
for musicians in those days.
741
00:42:08,946 --> 00:42:11,281
There were no air-conditioned buses
at that time.
742
00:42:11,365 --> 00:42:13,158
[Charlie Holmes]
Now, we've traveled 800 miles.
743
00:42:13,242 --> 00:42:15,702
You know, you get up,
you can't hardly stand up.
744
00:42:15,786 --> 00:42:19,039
You'd think he would take it easy
the first few sets or something like that.
745
00:42:19,122 --> 00:42:23,043
No, you'd get in there
and that first number, boy.
746
00:42:23,126 --> 00:42:24,461
Pow, pow, pow.
747
00:42:24,545 --> 00:42:26,922
There was no letup.
He was there to entertain the people.
748
00:42:27,005 --> 00:42:29,216
And believe me,
that's what he believed in.
749
00:42:29,716 --> 00:42:33,053
No other leader I know would've
put up with what he had to go through.
750
00:42:33,136 --> 00:42:36,139
[Morgenstern]
Louis became attached to laxatives.
751
00:42:36,223 --> 00:42:38,559
When you traveled
on the band bus with him,
752
00:42:38,642 --> 00:42:42,229
and you didn't know too much
about laxatives,
753
00:42:42,855 --> 00:42:46,942
he would find a way for you
to, uh, imbibe some of it. [chuckles]
754
00:42:47,025 --> 00:42:51,363
When I first got to know him,
it was Pluto Water.
755
00:42:51,446 --> 00:42:55,993
But then come Swiss Kriss,
which he really got to like.
756
00:42:56,827 --> 00:42:59,746
[ad narrator]
Enjoy the fun of eager living.
757
00:43:00,247 --> 00:43:05,419
That radiant, refreshed feeling
that comes from everyday regularity.
758
00:43:05,502 --> 00:43:11,717
Don't think for once that Swiss Kriss
wasn't in the rudimentals of my life.
759
00:43:14,428 --> 00:43:16,096
But I always did believe in herbs.
760
00:43:16,180 --> 00:43:18,265
-My mother always--
-[David Frost] Believed in?
761
00:43:18,348 --> 00:43:19,349
-Herbs.
-[Frost] Herbs.
762
00:43:19,433 --> 00:43:22,186
How do you say it? "Herbs"? "Erbs"?
763
00:43:22,269 --> 00:43:24,146
No, I-- I say-- I say, "Hoibs."
764
00:43:24,229 --> 00:43:25,689
-Well. Okay.
-[audience laughs]
765
00:43:25,772 --> 00:43:26,857
-Well, I'll say "herbs."
-Herbs.
766
00:43:26,940 --> 00:43:28,775
-You know what I'm talking about.
-Herbs. Right.
767
00:43:28,859 --> 00:43:30,777
-They make you trot.
-Pardon?
768
00:43:30,861 --> 00:43:32,237
-Anyway. [laughing]
-[laughs]
769
00:43:32,321 --> 00:43:35,282
[Armstrong] Have some
and just leave it all behind you, daddy.
770
00:43:35,365 --> 00:43:36,867
[audience laughs]
771
00:43:36,950 --> 00:43:39,620
[Morgenstern]
He believed that the laxatives
772
00:43:39,703 --> 00:43:43,540
were of primary, uh, significance
to your health.
773
00:43:44,291 --> 00:43:45,751
[Young] His doctor traveled with him.
774
00:43:45,834 --> 00:43:49,171
Dr. Schiff told us,
"Don't try to emulate this guy at home
775
00:43:49,254 --> 00:43:52,883
because you'd die, probably tomorrow."
776
00:43:52,966 --> 00:43:56,970
Louis was perhaps the strongest guy
I ever worked around
777
00:43:57,054 --> 00:44:00,807
because he-- he didn't try
to live carefully or anything like this.
778
00:44:00,891 --> 00:44:03,977
He lived the way he wanted to live,
and to heck with it.
779
00:44:04,061 --> 00:44:05,479
That's how he lived, you know.
780
00:44:09,775 --> 00:44:11,443
[newscaster]
At five o'clock in the morning,
781
00:44:11,527 --> 00:44:13,403
Louis Armstrong had to be rushed
to the hospital.
782
00:44:15,197 --> 00:44:19,743
[Young] Louis had a case history
of-- of a bad heart for a long time.
783
00:44:19,826 --> 00:44:22,120
We did a thing over in Spoleto, Italy,
784
00:44:23,121 --> 00:44:25,666
and, um, he had a pretty bad heart attack
over there.
785
00:44:26,583 --> 00:44:28,794
[Armstrong] In, uh, Spoleto, Italy,
786
00:44:29,378 --> 00:44:32,840
they sent to Rome to get this, uh,
special nurse in.
787
00:44:32,923 --> 00:44:34,633
-She was here fast.
-[person laughs]
788
00:44:34,716 --> 00:44:36,593
[person]
Oh, yeah. She was good-looking too.
789
00:44:36,677 --> 00:44:39,263
[Armstrong] Well, I ain't went with that.
I'm trying to get well now.
790
00:44:39,346 --> 00:44:40,347
[both laugh]
791
00:44:40,430 --> 00:44:43,350
When she said, "Uh-huh, Satchmo, eh?"
[chuckles]
792
00:44:43,433 --> 00:44:46,478
-She come with this thermometer, you know?
-[person] Uh-huh.
793
00:44:47,062 --> 00:44:48,730
[Armstrong]
I said, "What you gonna do with that?"
794
00:44:48,814 --> 00:44:50,065
-She said…
-[acquaintances laughing]
795
00:44:50,148 --> 00:44:51,441
[Armstrong]
And this thermometer…
796
00:44:51,525 --> 00:44:52,818
I said, "Okay. Ah."
797
00:44:52,901 --> 00:44:53,986
"Ah, what?"
798
00:44:54,069 --> 00:44:55,070
[exclaims]
799
00:44:55,571 --> 00:44:57,739
Like, "Ah, y'all trying to kill me."
800
00:44:58,782 --> 00:45:01,577
Now here is one of the miracles
of show business,
801
00:45:01,660 --> 00:45:06,456
because when Louis Armstrong
was with us in Spoleto, Italy,
802
00:45:06,540 --> 00:45:09,126
certainly Bob Precht and I
never thought to see him alive again
803
00:45:09,209 --> 00:45:12,421
because, as you know,
he was desperately sick over there.
804
00:45:12,504 --> 00:45:17,301
On the verge of dying, recovered
and is now back playing his horn.
805
00:45:17,801 --> 00:45:22,639
♪ Nah, I ain't gonna give nobody
None of my jelly roll ♪
806
00:45:22,723 --> 00:45:23,974
[Armstrong scats]
807
00:45:24,933 --> 00:45:28,562
♪ Give you none of it
To save your soul ♪
808
00:45:29,521 --> 00:45:32,149
[scatting]
809
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:44,870
♪ Ain't gonna give nobody
None of my jelly roll, jelly roll ♪
810
00:45:47,915 --> 00:45:51,001
[person] You see, the other day
I met a man from, uh, Zanzibar
811
00:45:52,127 --> 00:45:56,006
who was telling me quite a lot
about racial prejudice.
812
00:45:56,089 --> 00:45:58,383
-[Armstrong] Where?
-[person] In, uh, East Africa.
813
00:45:58,884 --> 00:46:00,844
[Armstrong] What, Africa?
You get it all over the world.
814
00:46:00,928 --> 00:46:02,721
Right here, you get prejudice.
Are you kidding?
815
00:46:03,931 --> 00:46:05,933
-[person] They were--
-[Armstrong] All over the world.
816
00:46:06,016 --> 00:46:07,726
-Not only in Africa.
-[person] Many places.
817
00:46:07,809 --> 00:46:09,770
-Right here, you get prejudice.
-[person] Here?
818
00:46:09,853 --> 00:46:11,522
[Armstrong] Yeah, everywhere.
819
00:46:11,605 --> 00:46:14,942
-[person] How is it here?
-[Armstrong] Well, essence of it all over.
820
00:46:15,651 --> 00:46:17,778
[person] Have you any, uh,
examples of it here?
821
00:46:17,861 --> 00:46:19,947
[Armstrong] Well, you can see
a whole lot of example--
822
00:46:20,030 --> 00:46:22,282
I can go out there right now,
within an hour's time
823
00:46:22,366 --> 00:46:25,661
and see five situations
where there's, uh, race prejudice.
824
00:46:26,870 --> 00:46:29,039
[Feather]
The discrimination was unbelievable.
825
00:46:29,122 --> 00:46:32,084
I think you had to be part of it,
826
00:46:32,167 --> 00:46:33,669
or to be very close to it,
827
00:46:33,752 --> 00:46:37,339
to get any idea of what it was like
to be Black in those days.
828
00:46:37,422 --> 00:46:39,174
It seemed, on the surface,
829
00:46:39,258 --> 00:46:43,720
that, uh, a lot of Black musicians
and Black people were accepting it
830
00:46:43,804 --> 00:46:46,390
or were trying to live with it
as best they could.
831
00:46:46,473 --> 00:46:50,644
But the resentment, you know,
understandably, was tremendous.
832
00:46:51,144 --> 00:46:53,564
And the conditions for living--
833
00:46:53,647 --> 00:46:57,025
I mean, just for finding a place
to stay overnight, you know,
834
00:46:57,109 --> 00:46:59,736
uh, finding a place
to go get something to eat--
835
00:46:59,820 --> 00:47:03,115
Everything presented its difficulties
because everything was segregated.
836
00:47:03,198 --> 00:47:05,033
And I'm talking about even in New York.
837
00:47:05,117 --> 00:47:09,162
[Barker] But it was tragic, what you had
to go with this discrimination.
838
00:47:09,246 --> 00:47:10,789
And you had to be tough.
839
00:47:10,873 --> 00:47:13,292
'Cause discrimination,
in a sneaky sort of way,
840
00:47:13,375 --> 00:47:17,171
killed a whole lot of musicians
because they couldn't understand the code.
841
00:47:19,173 --> 00:47:23,886
[Nas] "Do you know I played 99 million
hotels I couldn't stay at?
842
00:47:23,969 --> 00:47:27,347
When I was coming along,
a Black man had hell.
843
00:47:28,056 --> 00:47:32,895
On the road, he couldn't find
no place to eat, sleep, or use the toilet.
844
00:47:33,395 --> 00:47:37,191
Service station cats see a bus
of colored bandsmen drive up,
845
00:47:37,274 --> 00:47:39,651
and they would sprint to lock
their restroom doors.
846
00:47:40,861 --> 00:47:42,821
One time in Dallas, Texas,
847
00:47:42,905 --> 00:47:46,617
some ofay stops me as I enter
this hotel where I'm blowing the show--
848
00:47:46,700 --> 00:47:49,203
me in a goddamn tuxedo, now--
849
00:47:49,286 --> 00:47:52,331
and tells me I gotta come around
to the back door."
850
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,419
[James] In Memphis, at the bus station,
851
00:47:57,503 --> 00:48:00,339
they claimed that the bus
needed some work done on it
852
00:48:00,422 --> 00:48:02,508
and they were gonna take it back
to have it overhauled.
853
00:48:02,591 --> 00:48:06,053
At that particular time,
all the guys in Louis's band were young
854
00:48:06,136 --> 00:48:08,931
and just about as obstinate
a bunch of people
855
00:48:09,014 --> 00:48:11,642
as you ever met in your life
if they thought they were right.
856
00:48:11,725 --> 00:48:13,727
When nobody would give up the bus,
857
00:48:13,810 --> 00:48:17,940
then they sent for the police
and arrested us for inciting a riot.
858
00:48:18,023 --> 00:48:20,776
With the intention of burning up
all of our baggage and everything,
859
00:48:20,859 --> 00:48:22,277
luggage and everything,
860
00:48:22,361 --> 00:48:24,154
and putting us in the hoosegow,
which they did.
861
00:48:24,238 --> 00:48:26,073
They arrested us all.
862
00:48:26,156 --> 00:48:29,284
[Shaw] He was playing in Los Angeles
one time. I don't remember where.
863
00:48:29,368 --> 00:48:33,580
And I, along with some other friends,
drove out to hear him play.
864
00:48:34,081 --> 00:48:37,292
And, uh, we got to this place,
we were put-- given a table,
865
00:48:37,376 --> 00:48:38,752
and Louis saw me.
866
00:48:38,836 --> 00:48:40,671
He was in the middle of a radio broadcast.
867
00:48:40,754 --> 00:48:42,798
And, uh, then the broadcast was over,
868
00:48:42,881 --> 00:48:44,758
and he disappeared in back.
869
00:48:44,842 --> 00:48:45,968
And I waited.
870
00:48:46,510 --> 00:48:49,012
I thought he'd come over and have a drink,
871
00:48:49,096 --> 00:48:51,098
or a Coca-Cola or a cup of coffee
or something.
872
00:48:51,181 --> 00:48:53,725
And he never showed up.
I waited about ten minutes.
873
00:48:53,809 --> 00:48:56,395
And finally, I thought,
"Well, what's wrong?" I went backstage.
874
00:48:56,478 --> 00:48:58,772
He was back there
with his little typewriter.
875
00:48:58,856 --> 00:49:00,899
He was always writing
these marvelous letters he wrote.
876
00:49:00,983 --> 00:49:03,610
And I said, "Hi, Pops."
He said, "Hey, Artie. How you been?"
877
00:49:03,694 --> 00:49:06,238
I said, "I thought
I understood you to indicate
878
00:49:06,321 --> 00:49:07,739
that you'd come over to the table."
879
00:49:07,823 --> 00:49:09,950
He looked at me. He said,
"Man, I can't come to your table."
880
00:49:10,033 --> 00:49:12,536
And I said, "Why?"
He said, "Oh, they don't allow me to sit--
881
00:49:12,619 --> 00:49:14,663
Well, I can't sit
at the tables out there."
882
00:49:15,247 --> 00:49:17,249
Well, I looked at him
in total astonishment.
883
00:49:17,332 --> 00:49:21,170
My first reaction was, "Well, why the hell
are you playing these places?"
884
00:49:21,253 --> 00:49:24,715
My next reaction was the practical one of,
you play where you gotta play.
885
00:49:25,215 --> 00:49:28,552
And, uh, Louis was not in
a what we now call civil rights fight.
886
00:49:28,635 --> 00:49:32,723
Louis was in a-- a--
in an individual, uh, fight to survive.
887
00:49:32,806 --> 00:49:36,351
I guess his own inner dignity
was able to make him prevail
888
00:49:36,435 --> 00:49:39,313
over all these awful conditions
he must have worked with.
889
00:49:40,314 --> 00:49:42,816
[Nas]
"As time went on and I made a reputation,
890
00:49:43,483 --> 00:49:45,152
I had to put it in my contracts
891
00:49:45,235 --> 00:49:48,071
that I would not play no place
I couldn't stay at.
892
00:49:48,572 --> 00:49:54,036
I was the first Negro in the business
to crack them big, white hotels.
893
00:49:54,119 --> 00:49:56,663
Oh, yeah. I pioneered, Pops."
894
00:49:56,747 --> 00:49:59,124
["Rockin' Chair" playing]
895
00:50:02,669 --> 00:50:05,547
[Bigard]
People got tired of that situation,
896
00:50:05,631 --> 00:50:10,010
you know, that, uh--
the separate this and the separate that.
897
00:50:10,093 --> 00:50:13,096
If a man is able and capable enough
898
00:50:13,889 --> 00:50:19,019
and could put the-- the things together,
what a leader wants, he's--
899
00:50:19,102 --> 00:50:21,396
and he wants to hire 'em, he'd hire 'em.
900
00:50:25,150 --> 00:50:29,238
♪ Old rockin' chair's got me ♪
901
00:50:29,321 --> 00:50:31,573
♪ Old rockin' chair got you, father ♪
902
00:50:31,657 --> 00:50:34,076
[Robbins] What a marvelous,
democratic thing music is.
903
00:50:34,159 --> 00:50:36,203
[Armstrong]
That's right. We went everywhere together.
904
00:50:36,286 --> 00:50:39,665
and, uh,
we never had a hard word or nothing.
905
00:50:39,748 --> 00:50:41,875
We didn't worry about, you know, color.
906
00:50:41,959 --> 00:50:43,919
♪ …gin, son ♪
907
00:50:44,002 --> 00:50:47,381
♪ You know you don't drink gin, father ♪
908
00:50:47,464 --> 00:50:50,300
[Armstrong]
I mean, in the early days, we did this.
909
00:50:50,384 --> 00:50:52,135
When those things wasn't happening,
910
00:50:52,219 --> 00:50:56,306
Jack and I was
busting those down barriers. [laughs]
911
00:50:56,390 --> 00:50:59,351
Hitting the South there,
and just going all over.
912
00:50:59,434 --> 00:51:00,435
[Robbins chuckles]
913
00:51:00,519 --> 00:51:02,688
Some guy asked me,
914
00:51:02,771 --> 00:51:04,773
he said,
"Man, you're gonna take Jack Teagarden?"
915
00:51:04,857 --> 00:51:07,609
I said "Now, who am I to tell a white man
he can't go down South?"
916
00:51:07,693 --> 00:51:09,194
[all laughing]
917
00:51:09,278 --> 00:51:14,074
And it's all through New Orleans, Texas…
[mumbles, laughs]
918
00:51:14,157 --> 00:51:16,368
[Robbins]
I guess, more than all of the laws,
919
00:51:16,451 --> 00:51:21,081
music has had more to do with better
race relations through the years.
920
00:51:21,164 --> 00:51:23,125
-Hasn't it, Pops?
-[Armstrong] It's done a lot.
921
00:51:23,208 --> 00:51:26,503
You remember that white boy,
he's a sailor or something,
922
00:51:27,004 --> 00:51:29,798
uh, on one of these battleships
a-at Pearl Harbor?
923
00:51:30,299 --> 00:51:31,884
And he caught my show.
924
00:51:31,967 --> 00:51:35,596
And come to find out,
he has damn near every record I made
925
00:51:35,679 --> 00:51:38,557
from-- from-- from childhood,
even his parents.
926
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,852
But still and all, he expressed himself.
927
00:51:41,935 --> 00:51:45,480
He come up, and he shook my hand
after the whole show was over, didn't he?
928
00:51:46,064 --> 00:51:50,235
And he said,
"You know, I don't like Negroes."
929
00:51:50,319 --> 00:51:53,530
Right to my fucking face,
that motherfucker told me.
930
00:51:53,614 --> 00:51:57,492
And so I said,
"Well, I admire your goddamn sincerity."
931
00:51:58,327 --> 00:52:00,078
He said, "I don't like Negroes,
932
00:52:00,162 --> 00:52:02,331
but you one son of a bitch
I'm crazy about, baby."
933
00:52:02,414 --> 00:52:03,415
Didn't he?
934
00:52:03,498 --> 00:52:06,084
There, now,
you take the majority of white people.
935
00:52:06,168 --> 00:52:09,796
There's, uh, two-thirds of them
don't like niggers.
936
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:15,260
But they always got one nigger
that they just crazy about, goddamn it.
937
00:52:17,054 --> 00:52:18,055
Ain't that a bitch?
938
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,687
[Marsalis]
Pops, he faced a lot of challenges,
939
00:52:25,771 --> 00:52:28,649
and he always faced them with style
940
00:52:28,732 --> 00:52:32,778
and maintained his sanity and his joy
and his embrace of life.
941
00:52:32,861 --> 00:52:36,823
And it was not a simpleminded happiness.
It was a transcendent joy.
942
00:52:40,494 --> 00:52:44,331
He had a blessing inside of him
that he was acutely aware of.
943
00:52:46,124 --> 00:52:50,212
[Dizzy Gillespie] I remember when I was
a neighbor of Louis Armstrong.
944
00:52:50,754 --> 00:52:54,466
We lived within one block of one another
945
00:52:54,550 --> 00:52:58,095
in Corona, Queens, New York, for 15 years.
946
00:52:58,178 --> 00:53:00,681
I went over to his house
to wish him a happy birthday…
947
00:53:02,975 --> 00:53:04,977
and to bring him a little present.
948
00:53:05,060 --> 00:53:11,567
And I wound up getting a present myself
and also a present for my wife, Lorraine.
949
00:53:12,651 --> 00:53:14,403
[Lucille] If you had a hard-luck story
950
00:53:14,486 --> 00:53:17,197
and you needed something,
and you came to Louis, you got it.
951
00:53:17,281 --> 00:53:18,407
This is a throwback.
952
00:53:18,490 --> 00:53:21,743
It's been instilled in him
in the old days of-- in New Orleans,
953
00:53:21,827 --> 00:53:23,161
when Louis was a youth coming up.
954
00:53:23,245 --> 00:53:25,038
It was a way of life down there.
955
00:53:25,122 --> 00:53:26,456
They were all poor,
956
00:53:26,957 --> 00:53:29,209
and the one that had a little more
than the other
957
00:53:29,793 --> 00:53:32,754
saw to it that the one that has less
had a little bit.
958
00:53:32,838 --> 00:53:34,214
So he never outgrew it.
959
00:53:34,298 --> 00:53:36,133
He liked to get to know the people.
960
00:53:36,216 --> 00:53:38,760
That's where it was at with Louis,
and I think everyone knows that.
961
00:53:38,844 --> 00:53:41,805
You can see Louis--
see that, uh, in all the years
962
00:53:42,389 --> 00:53:44,433
and with all of the success
that Louis has had,
963
00:53:45,142 --> 00:53:48,520
Louis still remained the man
in the street himself.
964
00:53:50,814 --> 00:53:53,859
[Armstrong] Royal Theatre
was in a poor Negro neighborhood.
965
00:53:54,484 --> 00:53:56,570
Real poor people, I'm telling you.
966
00:53:57,196 --> 00:53:59,323
Until we arrived in town,
967
00:53:59,406 --> 00:54:02,951
it was actually colder--
968
00:54:03,035 --> 00:54:08,415
I'm telling you, it was colder than
a well digger's-- Well, you know the rest.
969
00:54:08,498 --> 00:54:14,379
And when I heard about those poor people
who couldn't afford to buy hard coal,
970
00:54:14,463 --> 00:54:16,006
I bought it for them.
971
00:54:16,507 --> 00:54:20,677
I went to the coal yard,
ordered a ton of coal,
972
00:54:20,761 --> 00:54:25,224
and had the company to deliver it
to the lobby of the Royal Theatre.
973
00:54:25,974 --> 00:54:31,271
And had all the folks who needed coal
to help themselves,
974
00:54:31,355 --> 00:54:33,315
which made them very happy.
975
00:54:33,398 --> 00:54:38,070
Of course, it all made me
stick out my chest with pride.
976
00:54:39,404 --> 00:54:43,033
[Barker] To be in his presence,
to see the power that he had--
977
00:54:43,116 --> 00:54:44,660
See, you'd go in his dressing room,
978
00:54:44,743 --> 00:54:49,081
he'd be sitting up, in his underwear,
with a towel around his lap
979
00:54:49,164 --> 00:54:52,918
and one around his shoulders
and had a white handkerchief on his head.
980
00:54:53,001 --> 00:54:56,129
And he put that grease around his lips.
981
00:54:56,213 --> 00:54:58,465
Looked like a minstrel man,
you know, with the white.
982
00:54:58,549 --> 00:55:01,134
And laughing. Natural, see, the way he is.
983
00:55:01,218 --> 00:55:05,931
And in the room,
you'll see maybe two nuns, a streetwalker.
984
00:55:06,014 --> 00:55:09,184
You see maybe a guy
that's come out of penitentiary.
985
00:55:09,268 --> 00:55:11,645
You see a rabbi. You see a priest.
986
00:55:12,271 --> 00:55:16,275
All of the-- All of the different levels
of society in a dressing room.
987
00:55:16,358 --> 00:55:18,110
And he's talking to all of 'em.
988
00:55:20,362 --> 00:55:21,822
[person] I'd like you to meet my son.
989
00:55:21,905 --> 00:55:24,992
[Barker]
First time we see important-looking whites
990
00:55:25,075 --> 00:55:29,329
be so, like, uh, putty in the presence
of a-- a figure
991
00:55:29,413 --> 00:55:33,458
who had opened up the world of music
to new heights, you know?
992
00:55:35,085 --> 00:55:36,962
♪ Now you know I don't lie much ♪
993
00:55:38,463 --> 00:55:41,300
[scatting]
994
00:55:45,721 --> 00:55:49,933
♪ Fellas she can't get
The fellas she ain't met ♪
995
00:55:51,268 --> 00:55:53,478
[vocalizes]
996
00:55:53,562 --> 00:55:56,231
[person] Louis,
you had, obviously, a very eventful life.
997
00:55:56,315 --> 00:55:58,525
Ever since I've known you,
they've been making a film on you.
998
00:55:58,609 --> 00:56:01,236
[Armstrong] They make
a whole lot of films now. You know?
999
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:03,989
Well, now I hear
they're finally gonna do a film on you.
1000
00:56:04,072 --> 00:56:06,408
Yeah.
Glad they can't come up to me and say,
1001
00:56:06,491 --> 00:56:09,453
"You must be a movie star.
I can tell by the film on your teeth."
1002
00:56:09,536 --> 00:56:10,954
[all laugh]
1003
00:56:12,206 --> 00:56:14,416
[Nas] "Hollywood fascinates me.
1004
00:56:14,499 --> 00:56:17,336
Everywhere I go,
there's a warm greeting for me.
1005
00:56:17,419 --> 00:56:22,633
But you still have some small-minded
prop men, carpenters, callboys.
1006
00:56:22,716 --> 00:56:26,970
One of the moments that dragged me
the most happened in 1952
1007
00:56:27,554 --> 00:56:29,473
during the making of Glory Alley."
1008
00:56:34,269 --> 00:56:39,107
♪ Glory Alley, Glory Alley ♪
1009
00:56:39,900 --> 00:56:44,738
♪ Hear that trumpet moan in Glory Alley ♪
1010
00:56:45,364 --> 00:56:48,116
[Armstrong] And this ofay,
he wasn't nothing but a callboy.
1011
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:53,247
He called, uh… [indistinct] …the extras,
uh-- the extras and different things.
1012
00:56:53,330 --> 00:56:55,040
Then he'll come
to the stars' dressing room,
1013
00:56:55,123 --> 00:56:57,000
let them know when they want
them for the camera.
1014
00:56:57,084 --> 00:56:59,461
And he was hanging around
on the set all the time.
1015
00:56:59,545 --> 00:57:00,796
-You know what I mean?
-[person] Yeah.
1016
00:57:00,879 --> 00:57:02,756
[Armstrong] So now, he'll come up,
1017
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:06,009
"Mr. Gilbert Roland, Ms. Caron,"
and everything.
1018
00:57:06,093 --> 00:57:08,637
And then he'll come to my dressing room
with a whole lot of bullshit.
1019
00:57:08,720 --> 00:57:10,931
-[knocking]
-"Satchmo, you better come on out there,
1020
00:57:11,014 --> 00:57:14,184
or they'll, uh-- uh,
they'll send in Harry James."
1021
00:57:14,268 --> 00:57:15,978
I said, "Listen, you cocksucker.
1022
00:57:16,061 --> 00:57:18,438
If they wanted Harry James,
they'd have had him in front."
1023
00:57:18,522 --> 00:57:21,233
I said, "The first place, he ain't
gonna play what I played out there."
1024
00:57:21,316 --> 00:57:23,193
He said, "Why?" I said, "'Cause he can't."
1025
00:57:23,277 --> 00:57:25,946
Just had to be a nasty
son of a bitch with him.
1026
00:57:26,029 --> 00:57:30,033
And I said, "You take it-- You tell MGM
to shove that picture up their ass."
1027
00:57:30,117 --> 00:57:31,410
Then he left me alone.
1028
00:57:31,493 --> 00:57:33,537
I said, "I don't--
I ain't a movie star nohow."
1029
00:57:33,620 --> 00:57:36,290
I said, "Why you hand me that shit?
'Cause I'm colored?"
1030
00:57:36,373 --> 00:57:39,793
I didn't appreciate it. I'm just showing
you what I go through for no reason.
1031
00:57:39,877 --> 00:57:43,380
You take the smallest fucking peckerwood,
1032
00:57:43,463 --> 00:57:45,924
hand you that shit,
and the big bosses appreciate you.
1033
00:57:46,008 --> 00:57:47,843
[Morgenstern] He made as many as 30 films.
1034
00:57:47,926 --> 00:57:52,264
The Glenn Miller Story, the way he's cast
in that is very positive.
1035
00:57:52,347 --> 00:57:56,852
♪ Yes, Basin Street is the street ♪
1036
00:57:58,437 --> 00:58:00,898
♪ Where the folks really meet ♪
1037
00:58:00,981 --> 00:58:02,566
[gasps] Who is he?
1038
00:58:03,442 --> 00:58:05,986
Who? Louis Armstrong.
1039
00:58:06,069 --> 00:58:11,450
[Morgenstern] A Song Was Born,
what Louis does there is just performing.
1040
00:58:12,951 --> 00:58:16,205
♪ They took a reet jungle beat
Brought it to Basin Street ♪
1041
00:58:16,288 --> 00:58:19,041
♪ And that's how jazz was born ♪
1042
00:58:19,124 --> 00:58:22,127
[Morgenstern]
In High Society, he is Louis Armstrong.
1043
00:58:22,211 --> 00:58:24,254
[singing "Now You Has Jazz"]
1044
00:58:24,338 --> 00:58:26,507
[trumpet playing]
1045
00:58:28,133 --> 00:58:30,886
[Morgenstern] Hello, Dolly!
Of course, it's the last one.
1046
00:58:30,969 --> 00:58:34,556
-♪ Well, hello, Dolly ♪
-Look who's here.
1047
00:58:35,307 --> 00:58:38,143
-♪ This is Louis, Dolly ♪
-Hello, Louis.
1048
00:58:38,769 --> 00:58:41,605
♪ It's so nice to have you back ♪
1049
00:58:41,688 --> 00:58:43,357
♪ Where you belong ♪
1050
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,651
[Armstrong]
They didn't write a whole lot of parts,
1051
00:58:45,734 --> 00:58:47,236
you know, character parts--
1052
00:58:47,319 --> 00:58:51,823
They just let me be myself in pictures.
That's what made it awful nice.
1053
00:58:51,907 --> 00:58:56,036
We all can't be, uh, Reinhardts
and things like that.
1054
00:58:56,537 --> 00:58:58,163
So they just tell me, "Be yourself."
1055
00:58:59,122 --> 00:59:02,459
All my days were happiness
'cause I'm born with nothing,
1056
00:59:03,085 --> 00:59:04,670
come here with nothing.
1057
00:59:04,753 --> 00:59:06,755
And I come through the world,
1058
00:59:06,839 --> 00:59:10,884
whatever nothing I had,
I enjoyed playing the music.
1059
00:59:10,968 --> 00:59:14,221
And what little, uh, advancement
or whatever it was,
1060
00:59:14,304 --> 00:59:16,682
it was more than I had at all times.
1061
00:59:16,765 --> 00:59:20,519
And right now, it's still more than I had.
1062
00:59:20,602 --> 00:59:23,647
And the fans are still happy with Satchmo.
1063
00:59:23,730 --> 00:59:27,943
And I wouldn't give a damn
if they had ten trillion dollars.
1064
00:59:28,026 --> 00:59:32,447
They can't be no happier than
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong and Lucille.
1065
00:59:32,531 --> 00:59:38,078
We never want an estate where servants
be falling all over each other.
1066
00:59:38,161 --> 00:59:41,874
They're working for colored people.
And then-- We don't wanna go through that.
1067
00:59:41,957 --> 00:59:44,459
And I want to live the life
that I come through
1068
00:59:44,543 --> 00:59:51,008
with what Mayann, my mother, taught me…
enjoy the rudimentals.
1069
00:59:51,091 --> 00:59:52,342
To hell with the rest of it.
1070
00:59:52,426 --> 00:59:53,802
[audience applauding, chattering]
1071
00:59:53,886 --> 00:59:55,888
["I'm Confessin' That I Love You" playing]
1072
00:59:58,515 --> 01:00:01,727
♪ I'm confessin' that I love you ♪
1073
01:00:04,897 --> 01:00:08,775
♪ Tell me, do you love me too? ♪
1074
01:00:11,111 --> 01:00:15,407
♪ I'm confessin' that I need you ♪
1075
01:00:16,408 --> 01:00:18,160
♪ Honest, I do ♪
1076
01:00:18,660 --> 01:00:22,456
♪ Oh, baby, need you every moment ♪
1077
01:00:22,539 --> 01:00:23,665
Oh, yeah?
1078
01:00:23,749 --> 01:00:25,626
[Mike Douglas]
Lucille, how did he propose? I mean--
1079
01:00:25,709 --> 01:00:27,503
-What did he say to you?
-[Lucille] Well, actually--
1080
01:00:27,586 --> 01:00:31,298
-[Douglas] How long did you know him?
-[Lucille] Uh, about two years.
1081
01:00:31,882 --> 01:00:33,592
-[Douglas] Two years?
-[Lucille] Oh, yes.
1082
01:00:33,675 --> 01:00:35,969
Well, it wasn't love at first sight then,
was it, Louis?
1083
01:00:36,053 --> 01:00:37,638
Mmm, plenty love going on then.
1084
01:00:37,721 --> 01:00:38,805
[audience laughing]
1085
01:00:39,389 --> 01:00:41,141
But not at first sight. I see.
1086
01:00:41,225 --> 01:00:43,268
Well, you know, I'm Louis's fourth wife.
1087
01:00:43,352 --> 01:00:44,394
-Oh, I see.
-Uh-huh.
1088
01:00:44,478 --> 01:00:48,273
And, uh, he was separated
from his third wife.
1089
01:00:48,357 --> 01:00:50,776
And so the-- We couldn't marry.
1090
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:53,612
And he kept saying,
"Well, you just stick around,
1091
01:00:53,695 --> 01:00:55,489
-you know, wait for Pops."
-[Armstrong] Mmm.
1092
01:00:55,572 --> 01:00:57,407
"And, uh, I'll get a divorce." You know.
1093
01:00:57,491 --> 01:00:59,368
And he's taking care of--
This woman's getting alimony.
1094
01:00:59,451 --> 01:01:01,662
-She's not about to give him up.
-Yeah.
1095
01:01:01,745 --> 01:01:03,872
-[Lucille] And I just laughed.
-[audience laughs]
1096
01:01:04,623 --> 01:01:07,000
He just tells me,
"Now, you just stay put, you know.
1097
01:01:07,084 --> 01:01:09,628
And one of these days, um, I'll…
1098
01:01:09,711 --> 01:01:11,713
She'll give me a divorce,
and we'll marry."
1099
01:01:11,797 --> 01:01:15,050
-[Armstrong] Yeah.
-And I'm young. But how long do you wait?
1100
01:01:15,551 --> 01:01:18,512
So I was seen on the scene
with the young boys,
1101
01:01:18,595 --> 01:01:19,972
and Louis got tired of that.
1102
01:01:20,055 --> 01:01:21,682
And he says, "Look, I can't hold you down.
1103
01:01:21,765 --> 01:01:22,975
I guess I better marry you."
1104
01:01:23,058 --> 01:01:24,643
-[Armstrong] You right.
-"I'll get the divorce."
1105
01:01:26,061 --> 01:01:29,523
[Armstrong]
♪ Am I guessin' that you love me, babe ♪
1106
01:01:29,606 --> 01:01:31,525
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1107
01:01:32,985 --> 01:01:37,614
♪ Dreaming dreams of you in vain, vain ♪
1108
01:01:40,117 --> 01:01:44,413
♪ I'm confessin' that I love you ♪
1109
01:01:47,249 --> 01:01:48,625
-Chops.
-[Lucille laughs]
1110
01:01:48,709 --> 01:01:52,254
♪ Over again ♪
1111
01:01:52,337 --> 01:01:53,755
[audience cheering]
1112
01:01:58,218 --> 01:02:03,932
[interviewer 1] Well, what has been, uh,
to you, the most encouraging things?
1113
01:02:04,516 --> 01:02:08,187
[Armstrong]
My fourth wife, she fixed a nice home,
1114
01:02:08,687 --> 01:02:12,482
not elaborate, just s-someplace
where you settle down.
1115
01:02:12,566 --> 01:02:14,443
Uh, your castle.
1116
01:02:14,526 --> 01:02:18,530
It's such a pleasure to go home.
That's why I canceled the road tour.
1117
01:02:22,075 --> 01:02:27,414
[Armstrong stammers] 3456 107th Street.
1118
01:02:27,497 --> 01:02:29,750
-[interviewer 2] 107th?
-[Armstrong] Yeah. Street.
1119
01:02:30,334 --> 01:02:33,629
Corona, New York. The Queens.
1120
01:02:33,712 --> 01:02:37,299
It should be Long Island,
but, uh, New York for many.
1121
01:02:38,675 --> 01:02:40,427
[Lucille] We would stay at my apartment,
1122
01:02:40,511 --> 01:02:44,890
but my mother had to get out
of her bedroom and sleep in my small room
1123
01:02:44,973 --> 01:02:46,642
so Louis
and I could have the large bedroom
1124
01:02:46,725 --> 01:02:49,061
for the few days of-- that we went home.
1125
01:02:49,144 --> 01:02:51,230
So I decided to buy a house.
1126
01:02:51,813 --> 01:02:54,191
And I told Louis, "Let's get a house."
1127
01:02:54,274 --> 01:02:56,985
And he said,
"What do you want a house for?
1128
01:02:57,069 --> 01:03:00,322
We'll be traveling.
I-I'll get a hotel room."
1129
01:03:00,405 --> 01:03:03,742
And I wasn't about to be cooped up
in a hotel room.
1130
01:03:03,825 --> 01:03:07,412
And after being married to Louis
for a few months,
1131
01:03:07,496 --> 01:03:13,001
I found that it wasn't very easy
to argue with Louis.
1132
01:03:13,794 --> 01:03:15,504
If he made his mind up about something,
1133
01:03:15,587 --> 01:03:18,924
he was very, very positive
that you couldn't change his mind.
1134
01:03:19,007 --> 01:03:21,260
And so he kept not wanting this house.
1135
01:03:21,343 --> 01:03:23,804
And I'm a very stubborn person myself.
1136
01:03:23,887 --> 01:03:26,932
And so I said, "This guy doesn't know
what the house is all about."
1137
01:03:27,766 --> 01:03:30,060
I bought the house myself
and didn't tell him.
1138
01:03:30,644 --> 01:03:33,355
I had had the house eight months
before I told Louis.
1139
01:03:34,356 --> 01:03:36,358
Eight whole months.
1140
01:03:36,441 --> 01:03:40,028
Meanwhile, my mother's writing me
about what's happening,
1141
01:03:40,112 --> 01:03:43,031
and they're planting flowers
and this, that and the other.
1142
01:03:43,657 --> 01:03:46,618
So finally, I tell him, two weeks before
we were to go back to New York.
1143
01:03:46,702 --> 01:03:49,621
And I told him, I said,
"Pops, I got something to tell you."
1144
01:03:50,414 --> 01:03:52,541
So he said,
"Well, what have you done now?"
1145
01:03:52,624 --> 01:03:53,959
I said, "I haven't done anything--
1146
01:03:54,042 --> 01:03:56,670
I don't think you're going to be unhappy
about what I've done.
1147
01:03:56,753 --> 01:04:00,924
But, uh, I wanna--
Uh, I have to tell you that we've moved."
1148
01:04:01,008 --> 01:04:03,302
And he said, "We've what?"
He said, "We've moved?"
1149
01:04:03,385 --> 01:04:05,387
He said, "That's all right.
You got a larger apartment?"
1150
01:04:05,470 --> 01:04:07,139
I said, "No, I bought a house."
1151
01:04:07,222 --> 01:04:11,393
So he looked at me like I was, you know,
like I was a cow with seven horns.
1152
01:04:12,060 --> 01:04:15,564
Now he said, "How did you pay for it?
You didn't ask me for any money."
1153
01:04:15,647 --> 01:04:19,151
I said, "You have to remember,
I have been working for 13 years.
1154
01:04:19,234 --> 01:04:20,944
I have a little money saved up.
1155
01:04:21,028 --> 01:04:24,656
And so, when I approached you
about a house and you were so down on it,
1156
01:04:24,740 --> 01:04:28,160
I didn't ask you. I just took my money,
and I put the down payment on the house,
1157
01:04:28,243 --> 01:04:29,953
and I've been keeping the payments up."
1158
01:04:30,037 --> 01:04:31,538
I said,
"Now that you know about the house,
1159
01:04:31,622 --> 01:04:34,374
you can take the payments over."
[chuckling]
1160
01:04:34,458 --> 01:04:36,877
But I've never been able to move Louis
from that place.
1161
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:39,463
Once he got in that place, he loved it.
1162
01:04:39,546 --> 01:04:41,965
[singing "Blueberry Hill"]
1163
01:04:58,941 --> 01:05:01,818
[interviewer 3] Mrs. Armstrong, do you
always go with Louis wherever he goes?
1164
01:05:01,902 --> 01:05:02,778
[Lucille] Yes, I do…
1165
01:05:02,861 --> 01:05:04,446
[interviewer 3]
It's your job to look after him?
1166
01:05:04,530 --> 01:05:08,492
[Lucille] That's part of my marital vow
to take care of the husband.
1167
01:05:08,575 --> 01:05:13,330
-[interviewer 3] Yes.
-And, uh, while I, uh-- We travel a lot.
1168
01:05:13,413 --> 01:05:16,333
We try to maintain a home life
wherever we go.
1169
01:05:16,416 --> 01:05:17,918
So we were constantly together.
1170
01:05:18,001 --> 01:05:21,880
There was--
There wasn't that-- that, uh, separation,
1171
01:05:21,964 --> 01:05:25,384
as most musicians and wives have.
1172
01:05:26,426 --> 01:05:27,678
But then, I was fortunate
1173
01:05:27,761 --> 01:05:30,138
for the simple reason
that Louis wanted me with him.
1174
01:05:31,181 --> 01:05:34,101
And secondly,
he could afford to keep me with him.
1175
01:05:34,184 --> 01:05:36,603
And the other chaps
couldn't afford to take their families.
1176
01:05:37,396 --> 01:05:39,147
[interviewer 4]
Did it get boring at any time,
1177
01:05:39,231 --> 01:05:42,317
-listening to Louis night after night?
-[Lucille] You gotta be kidding.
1178
01:05:42,401 --> 01:05:44,570
-[interviewer 4] Really?
-[Lucille] How could anyone be bored
1179
01:05:44,653 --> 01:05:46,071
with those beautiful notes?
1180
01:05:46,655 --> 01:05:50,450
[Armstrong]
Yeah, I had a audience with the pope.
1181
01:05:51,076 --> 01:05:52,995
[interviewer 5]
You had an audience with the pope?
1182
01:05:53,078 --> 01:05:54,204
[Armstrong chatters]
1183
01:05:54,288 --> 01:05:56,039
And I remember that morning,
1184
01:05:56,123 --> 01:05:59,042
there was 10,000 people there waiting
just to see him.
1185
01:05:59,710 --> 01:06:01,879
And my wife,
she's dressed for the occasion,
1186
01:06:01,962 --> 01:06:06,175
had on a outfit with a black veil.
1187
01:06:06,258 --> 01:06:07,968
And-- And I'm sharp.
1188
01:06:09,052 --> 01:06:11,638
So he asked me, "Have you any children?"
1189
01:06:12,514 --> 01:06:16,101
I said,
"Well, no, daddy. But we still wailing."
1190
01:06:16,185 --> 01:06:18,562
-And, uh--
-[audience laughs]
1191
01:06:18,645 --> 01:06:20,772
["Jeepers Creepers" playing]
1192
01:06:26,820 --> 01:06:29,615
[singing]
1193
01:06:37,706 --> 01:06:39,833
[interviewer 6] Now, let's talk about pot.
1194
01:06:39,917 --> 01:06:42,002
[Armstrong] Yeah.
1195
01:06:42,085 --> 01:06:44,421
[John Daly] I'm only sorry
you couldn't be here with us longer.
1196
01:06:44,505 --> 01:06:45,797
I wish you could have gotten higher.
1197
01:06:45,881 --> 01:06:48,050
But why don't you go and say hello
to the folks on the panel?
1198
01:06:48,133 --> 01:06:49,927
Well, I'm getting higher next time round.
1199
01:06:50,010 --> 01:06:51,803
[panel members laugh]
1200
01:06:51,887 --> 01:06:55,682
[Armstrong] Mary… wouna.
1201
01:06:55,766 --> 01:07:02,064
[chuckles] Honey, you sure was good
and I enjoyed you very much.
1202
01:07:03,357 --> 01:07:06,693
Marijuana is more of a medicine than dope.
1203
01:07:09,738 --> 01:07:12,908
[Morgenstern] Why did he do it?
Well, because it relaxes you.
1204
01:07:13,534 --> 01:07:15,994
It does something to your hearing.
1205
01:07:16,078 --> 01:07:19,623
And if you're a musician,
it does something to your playing.
1206
01:07:23,418 --> 01:07:26,421
[Nas] "I have to go through
the whole world with this horn,
1207
01:07:26,505 --> 01:07:27,965
making millions happy,
1208
01:07:28,048 --> 01:07:32,928
and at the same time
ducking and dodging cops, dicks, so forth.
1209
01:07:33,846 --> 01:07:37,140
Why? 'Cause they say it's against the law.
1210
01:07:37,224 --> 01:07:40,477
I'm not so particular about
having a permit to carry a gun.
1211
01:07:41,103 --> 01:07:45,190
All I want is a permit
to carry that good shit."
1212
01:07:45,274 --> 01:07:48,777
[Armstrong]
On the West Coast, California, in 1931,
1213
01:07:49,319 --> 01:07:53,448
when I got busted,
it was during our intermission.
1214
01:07:53,532 --> 01:07:57,286
Two big, healthy dicks--
detectives, that is--
1215
01:07:57,369 --> 01:08:01,623
come from behind a car, man,
and say to us,
1216
01:08:02,499 --> 01:08:04,710
"We'll take the roach, boys."
1217
01:08:04,793 --> 01:08:10,424
I spent nine days in
the downtown Los Angeles city jail.
1218
01:08:10,507 --> 01:08:13,844
And when all of those prisoners looked up
1219
01:08:13,927 --> 01:08:20,267
and saw me walk in
with this great big deputy sheriff,
1220
01:08:20,350 --> 01:08:24,770
they all en masse started,
"Hey, Louis Armstrong!"
1221
01:08:25,354 --> 01:08:28,317
The judge gave me a suspended sentence,
1222
01:08:28,399 --> 01:08:33,404
and I went to work that night,
wailed just like nothing happened.
1223
01:08:35,698 --> 01:08:36,700
[song ends]
1224
01:08:36,783 --> 01:08:38,911
[audience cheering]
1225
01:08:40,328 --> 01:08:42,788
[playing "St. Louis Blues"]
1226
01:09:08,982 --> 01:09:10,734
[Bernstein] Ladies and gentlemen,
1227
01:09:10,817 --> 01:09:12,653
Louis Armstrong has told me
1228
01:09:12,736 --> 01:09:17,032
that his most honored ambition
is being fulfilled tonight
1229
01:09:17,115 --> 01:09:19,576
in playing with the New York Philharmonic.
1230
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:23,412
I should say that it is rather we,
1231
01:09:23,497 --> 01:09:26,166
on the longer-haired side of the fence,
1232
01:09:26,250 --> 01:09:30,962
who are honored in that
when we play "The Saint Louis Blues,"
1233
01:09:31,046 --> 01:09:35,008
we are only doing a blown-up imitation
of what he does.
1234
01:09:35,591 --> 01:09:38,386
-And what he does is real and true…
-[audience cheering]
1235
01:09:38,470 --> 01:09:41,765
…and honest and simple, and even noble.
1236
01:09:49,481 --> 01:09:53,902
[Lucille] I never shall forget
the first time we went to Africa in 1956.
1237
01:09:57,781 --> 01:09:59,199
[Nas] "My God, darling.
1238
01:10:00,075 --> 01:10:03,287
I had no idea
I would be so thrillingly received
1239
01:10:03,370 --> 01:10:07,791
by my brothers and sisters
in my homeland, Africa."
1240
01:10:09,251 --> 01:10:13,672
[interviewer 7] This is, though, a tour
to make friends and influence people.
1241
01:10:13,755 --> 01:10:16,758
[Armstrong] Well, I guess that's the idea
when they did it.
1242
01:10:16,842 --> 01:10:20,637
But all-- We want to get out there
and blow for them cats. They're all fans.
1243
01:10:20,721 --> 01:10:22,723
[fans cheering]
1244
01:10:22,806 --> 01:10:25,809
Yeah, we got off the plane and…
[indistinct]
1245
01:10:25,893 --> 01:10:29,646
♪ All for you
Lord, for you, Louis ♪
1246
01:10:29,730 --> 01:10:32,983
["All For You, Louis" playing]
1247
01:10:39,323 --> 01:10:40,532
♪ La la la ♪
1248
01:10:40,616 --> 01:10:44,161
[audience cheering]
1249
01:10:44,244 --> 01:10:48,290
[Lucille] The attendance was so fantastic
that there wasn't a place to hold it
1250
01:10:48,373 --> 01:10:51,043
except the polo grounds,
which was just a big stadium.
1251
01:10:52,044 --> 01:10:54,046
[band playing upbeat jazz song]
1252
01:11:09,770 --> 01:11:12,397
And then one of the chiefs
said to Louis, "Hello, Satchmo."
1253
01:11:12,481 --> 01:11:13,607
And Louis told me, he said,
1254
01:11:13,690 --> 01:11:15,943
"See that, Moms?
They even got my records in the bush."
1255
01:11:16,026 --> 01:11:18,320
You know, everybody knows Pops.
1256
01:11:18,403 --> 01:11:20,864
-[playing traditional Ghanaian music]
-[cheering]
1257
01:11:27,788 --> 01:11:30,290
-[Armstrong] I had a wonderful time.
-[Murrow] I take it you did.
1258
01:11:30,374 --> 01:11:32,584
[Armstrong] Yeah,
they had about nine tribes down there.
1259
01:11:32,668 --> 01:11:36,004
That's-- That come from miles away
just to dance with us.
1260
01:11:36,713 --> 01:11:39,800
And in one of those tribes,
they had a chick swinging there,
1261
01:11:39,883 --> 01:11:40,884
looked just my mother.
1262
01:11:40,968 --> 01:11:43,595
Man, I made the cameraman
call her over here
1263
01:11:43,679 --> 01:11:46,640
and let her put a couple of
Wiggle Waggle Woos on there for me.
1264
01:11:46,723 --> 01:11:48,475
[both laughing]
1265
01:11:49,059 --> 01:11:51,353
["King of the Zulus" playing]
1266
01:11:53,438 --> 01:11:54,690
[Armstrong] Here's a song we did
1267
01:11:54,773 --> 01:11:57,484
that was all about
one of the big events of the year
1268
01:11:57,568 --> 01:11:58,819
in my hometown,
1269
01:11:58,902 --> 01:12:01,363
the Zulu Parade in Mardi Gras week.
1270
01:12:02,197 --> 01:12:07,077
But it wasn't until 1949,
23 years after I made this record,
1271
01:12:07,160 --> 01:12:11,331
that they elected Satchmo
to be the king of the Zulus. [laughs]
1272
01:12:18,755 --> 01:12:20,174
[Feather] I got to New Orleans,
1273
01:12:20,257 --> 01:12:22,926
and it was like everybody was crazy
in that city.
1274
01:12:23,010 --> 01:12:24,344
Everybody was packing the streets,
1275
01:12:24,428 --> 01:12:26,388
and there were all kinds
of racial paradoxes,
1276
01:12:26,471 --> 01:12:29,600
like the Zulus were
prepared to present Louis that night
1277
01:12:29,683 --> 01:12:32,352
in a concert
at Booker T. Washington Auditorium.
1278
01:12:32,436 --> 01:12:35,439
[radio host] Armstrong's All Star Band
has played 45 minutes
1279
01:12:35,522 --> 01:12:40,652
of New Orleans's own Dixieland music
to an enthusiastic capacity crowd.
1280
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:42,905
[Feather] I went to the concert, and I saw
1281
01:12:42,988 --> 01:12:45,908
Black spectators seated on the left
and the center aisles,
1282
01:12:45,991 --> 01:12:47,868
while the whites were
over on the right aisle.
1283
01:12:47,951 --> 01:12:50,454
But on the stage,
I saw Louis and Jack Teagarden
1284
01:12:50,537 --> 01:12:51,872
with their arms around each other,
1285
01:12:51,955 --> 01:12:55,209
ra-radiating interracial brotherhood,
singing a duet.
1286
01:12:55,709 --> 01:12:58,170
And I saw white officials
shaking hands with Louis on stage,
1287
01:12:58,253 --> 01:13:01,298
and congratulating him,
and paying tribute to his talent.
1288
01:13:01,381 --> 01:13:02,883
I saw Louis bursting with pride
1289
01:13:02,966 --> 01:13:05,802
when the mayor of New Orleans
gave him the keys to the city.
1290
01:13:05,886 --> 01:13:07,554
That was the week
he made the cover of Time.
1291
01:13:07,638 --> 01:13:10,015
It was on every white newsstand in town.
1292
01:13:10,098 --> 01:13:12,100
[DeLesseps Morrison]
On behalf of the people of New Orleans,
1293
01:13:12,184 --> 01:13:15,354
the city with a colorful past
and a promising future,
1294
01:13:15,437 --> 01:13:17,481
we want to present you
the key to the city.
1295
01:13:17,564 --> 01:13:19,983
-[Armstrong] Aw.
-[Morrison] To Louis Armstrong.
1296
01:13:20,067 --> 01:13:22,110
[Armstrong] Thank you very much, Mayor.
1297
01:13:22,194 --> 01:13:24,947
This is really a treat.
This is the thrill of my life.
1298
01:13:25,030 --> 01:13:27,199
[Feather] But I also knew
that there were hundreds of places
1299
01:13:27,282 --> 01:13:29,576
to which those keys would never admit him.
1300
01:13:33,372 --> 01:13:35,541
[Alexis] When he was king,
everybody was getting out.
1301
01:13:35,624 --> 01:13:40,838
People that didn't get out on Carnival,
they going out to see Louis Armstrong,
1302
01:13:40,921 --> 01:13:42,047
king of the Zulu.
1303
01:13:42,756 --> 01:13:44,299
And there was so many people.
1304
01:13:44,383 --> 01:13:46,385
Everything got held up,
you know what I mean?
1305
01:13:46,468 --> 01:13:48,053
It was stopping everything,
1306
01:13:48,136 --> 01:13:50,180
and he just had to get off the float,
you know.
1307
01:13:50,264 --> 01:13:52,724
'Cause sooner or later, man,
he might have got hurt up there.
1308
01:13:52,808 --> 01:13:53,809
You understand me?
1309
01:13:53,892 --> 01:13:58,647
[Marsalis] Rex was the biggest parade
of all the white parades.
1310
01:13:58,730 --> 01:14:01,191
And by white, I mean it was what it was.
It was segregated.
1311
01:14:01,275 --> 01:14:04,486
But Zulu was like
the height of everything.
1312
01:14:04,570 --> 01:14:07,865
So, for Pops, he wanted
to be the king of Zulu his entire life.
1313
01:14:07,948 --> 01:14:11,076
The king of Zulu
would dress up in blackface.
1314
01:14:11,743 --> 01:14:12,995
That's what he did.
1315
01:14:13,078 --> 01:14:16,707
So Louis Armstrong did it,
and it became, you know, a crime.
1316
01:14:18,792 --> 01:14:21,378
-[Armstrong] That was a great thing then…
-[acquaintance] Yeah.
1317
01:14:21,461 --> 01:14:25,090
…'cause what's going on now
with all these marches and organizations,
1318
01:14:25,174 --> 01:14:28,594
they won't let it happen no more now,
you know, all that makeup.
1319
01:14:29,553 --> 01:14:31,263
[Crouch] First thing about blackface is
1320
01:14:31,346 --> 01:14:34,057
we have to understand
that it comes out of minstrelsy.
1321
01:14:34,141 --> 01:14:37,394
Minstrelsy was not invented
to elevate Negroes.
1322
01:14:38,103 --> 01:14:44,735
Minstrelsy was invented to get jobs
for white guys who were imitating Negroes.
1323
01:14:46,236 --> 01:14:50,240
Now, what it became, ironically,
1324
01:14:50,324 --> 01:14:57,289
was the first mass popular phenomenon
in American culture.
1325
01:15:03,504 --> 01:15:05,797
[Marsalis]
You have to know what the tradition is.
1326
01:15:06,507 --> 01:15:09,134
So it's people everywhere
who don't know what that tradition is.
1327
01:15:09,218 --> 01:15:12,054
All they're seeing is
a blackface minstrel,
1328
01:15:12,137 --> 01:15:13,931
but he wasn't looking at it like that.
1329
01:15:14,014 --> 01:15:16,600
You had a lot of traditions and things
that you had
1330
01:15:16,683 --> 01:15:20,395
that were-- were viable and good
and meaningful.
1331
01:15:21,104 --> 01:15:24,274
And then, during the movement,
we threw all of that stuff out.
1332
01:15:24,358 --> 01:15:26,902
Dancing a certain way, cheesing, Tomming.
1333
01:15:27,694 --> 01:15:30,280
And, uh, we didn't want
to be a part of any of that.
1334
01:15:35,285 --> 01:15:36,954
[James Baldwin] "And after the funeral,
1335
01:15:37,037 --> 01:15:39,623
with just Sonny and me
alone in the empty kitchen,
1336
01:15:40,374 --> 01:15:43,544
I tried to find out something about him.
1337
01:15:44,294 --> 01:15:45,546
'What do you want to do?'
1338
01:15:46,171 --> 01:15:48,632
'I want to play jazz,' he said.
1339
01:15:49,132 --> 01:15:51,844
'You mean-- like Louis Armstrong?'
1340
01:15:52,469 --> 01:15:54,388
His face closed as though I'd struck him.
1341
01:15:54,972 --> 01:15:58,767
'No, I'm not talking about
none of that old-time, down-home crap.'"
1342
01:15:59,476 --> 01:16:04,106
[Frost] Pops, how much do you think
you've lost out of--
1343
01:16:04,606 --> 01:16:07,067
not your own life
and certainly not your own pride,
1344
01:16:07,150 --> 01:16:10,529
but out of commercial life
by being born Black in a white country?
1345
01:16:10,612 --> 01:16:13,073
No, I don't look at it that way.
1346
01:16:13,740 --> 01:16:17,494
Your color don't mean shit to me
if you're a dumb son of a bitch.
1347
01:16:18,203 --> 01:16:19,204
-You understand?
-Mm-hmm.
1348
01:16:19,288 --> 01:16:22,708
Right, so, are you a man or mouse?
It's up to you.
1349
01:16:23,208 --> 01:16:26,795
[Amiri Baraka]
A lot of young people resented the way
1350
01:16:26,879 --> 01:16:30,632
they thought Armstrong was
too submissive to the United States.
1351
01:16:30,716 --> 01:16:33,468
If you coming up in the '50s and '60s,
1352
01:16:33,552 --> 01:16:34,928
there's a different aesthetic,
1353
01:16:35,012 --> 01:16:38,098
a different kind of attitude,
political attitude, in the street.
1354
01:16:38,182 --> 01:16:41,935
And they didn't understand Louis
because Louis was always affable,
1355
01:16:42,019 --> 01:16:42,895
always smiling.
1356
01:16:42,978 --> 01:16:45,022
[singing "Now You Has Jazz"]
1357
01:16:46,773 --> 01:16:47,774
Yay!
1358
01:16:47,858 --> 01:16:51,737
♪ Keeps that Georgia on my mind ♪
1359
01:16:51,820 --> 01:16:53,572
♪ Yeah ♪
1360
01:16:53,655 --> 01:16:55,365
♪ Mmm ♪
1361
01:16:55,449 --> 01:16:56,992
-[person laughing]
-[audience cheering]
1362
01:16:57,075 --> 01:17:00,621
[Miles Davis] They don't realize
that Louis was doing that
1363
01:17:00,704 --> 01:17:02,664
when he was around his friends.
1364
01:17:03,457 --> 01:17:05,959
-He was acting the same way.
-[person] That's right.
1365
01:17:06,043 --> 01:17:08,212
[Davis]
But when you do it in front of white folks
1366
01:17:08,295 --> 01:17:11,840
and try to make them enjoy what you feel--
1367
01:17:11,924 --> 01:17:13,342
-That's what he was doing.
-[person] Right!
1368
01:17:13,425 --> 01:17:15,010
-[Davis] They call him Uncle Tom.
-[person] Yes.
1369
01:17:15,093 --> 01:17:20,641
♪ Oh, you can bend her legs
Bend her arms and bathe her too ♪
1370
01:17:22,809 --> 01:17:24,728
♪ Let's fly down or drive down
To New Orleans ♪
1371
01:17:24,811 --> 01:17:27,606
[Thompson] First time you misplace words
and do that shit,
1372
01:17:27,689 --> 01:17:29,942
they gonna say you Uncle Tomming.
And goddamn it--
1373
01:17:30,025 --> 01:17:33,612
And every fucking nationality comedian
stays right in this category.
1374
01:17:33,695 --> 01:17:35,489
Look at the Jew,
doesn't he use his dialect?
1375
01:17:35,572 --> 01:17:37,449
[Armstrong]
I ain't supposed to be no comedian.
1376
01:17:37,533 --> 01:17:38,951
That's just everyday life, you know.
1377
01:17:39,034 --> 01:17:41,370
[Thompson] "Suppose" my ass.
You are a natural comedian.
1378
01:17:41,453 --> 01:17:42,955
[Armstrong] Yeah, well, that's all right.
1379
01:17:43,038 --> 01:17:46,124
[Marsalis] A lot of his film roles,
the early ones, I never liked those.
1380
01:17:46,208 --> 01:17:49,837
For my generation to see him
singing to horses and stuff,
1381
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:53,298
or the kind of way Black people
acted in films,
1382
01:17:53,382 --> 01:17:54,842
it's not just Louis Armstrong.
1383
01:17:54,925 --> 01:17:57,052
[Armstrong] ♪ Gosh all, git up ♪
1384
01:17:57,135 --> 01:17:59,513
♪ How'd they get so lit up? ♪
1385
01:17:59,596 --> 01:18:02,140
-♪ Gosh all, git up ♪
-[horse whinnies]
1386
01:18:02,224 --> 01:18:04,643
♪ How'd they get that size? ♪
1387
01:18:04,726 --> 01:18:07,354
[Armstrong] Archie got his nose broke
for fighting a nigga
1388
01:18:07,437 --> 01:18:10,023
'cause he didn't like
the way he talked about me.
1389
01:18:10,107 --> 01:18:12,901
This smug motherfucker said,
"Louis Armstrong,
1390
01:18:12,985 --> 01:18:14,403
Uncle Tom nigga."
1391
01:18:14,486 --> 01:18:17,573
When the fuck have I "Uncle Tommed"
in my life?
1392
01:18:17,656 --> 01:18:19,449
[Thompson]
I tell ya. All you have to do is
1393
01:18:19,533 --> 01:18:22,744
break up your face and mug,
and a nigga say you're Uncle Tom.
1394
01:18:22,828 --> 01:18:26,081
-[Armstrong] I'm blowing this horn…
-[Thompson] A man got expressions.
1395
01:18:27,749 --> 01:18:30,252
[Ossie Davis] Most of the fellas
I grew up with, myself included,
1396
01:18:30,335 --> 01:18:32,171
we used to laugh at Louis Armstrong.
1397
01:18:33,005 --> 01:18:34,464
We knew he could play the horn,
1398
01:18:34,548 --> 01:18:37,426
but that didn't save him
from our malice and our ridicule.
1399
01:18:38,010 --> 01:18:40,679
Everywhere we'd look,
there would be old Louis.
1400
01:18:41,346 --> 01:18:46,727
Sweat popping, eyes bugging,
mouth wide open, grinning,
1401
01:18:46,810 --> 01:18:49,271
oh, my Lord, from ear to ear.
1402
01:18:50,522 --> 01:18:52,191
"Ooftah," we called it.
1403
01:18:52,858 --> 01:18:57,529
Mopping his brow, ducking his head,
doing his thing for the white man.
1404
01:18:57,613 --> 01:18:59,907
Oh, yeah.
1405
01:19:02,326 --> 01:19:08,040
It wasn't until 1966,
when we were working together
1406
01:19:08,123 --> 01:19:12,461
on a picture in New York
with Sammy Davis Jr., Cicely Tyson,
1407
01:19:13,212 --> 01:19:14,755
that I got to know Louis better.
1408
01:19:16,465 --> 01:19:18,842
One day, we'd broken for lunch,
1409
01:19:18,926 --> 01:19:20,677
and I decided to stay inside.
1410
01:19:21,178 --> 01:19:23,347
It was quiet,
so I thought everybody had gone.
1411
01:19:23,430 --> 01:19:26,642
I went back on the set
to lie down on the bed,
1412
01:19:28,810 --> 01:19:34,191
and there was Louis by the door,
sitting in a chair,
1413
01:19:34,274 --> 01:19:38,362
staring up and out into space
1414
01:19:39,947 --> 01:19:41,615
with the saddest,
1415
01:19:41,698 --> 01:19:45,160
most heartbreaking expression
I've ever seen on a man's face.
1416
01:19:47,996 --> 01:19:49,915
I just stared at him for a moment.
1417
01:19:51,333 --> 01:19:54,837
And then when I tried to turn
and sneak away,
1418
01:19:56,213 --> 01:19:57,673
the noise snapped Louis out of it.
1419
01:19:57,756 --> 01:20:00,217
And all of a sudden,
there was that professional grin again,
1420
01:20:00,300 --> 01:20:01,301
mouth wide open.
1421
01:20:01,385 --> 01:20:03,303
He whipped out his handkerchief,
mopped his brow.
1422
01:20:03,387 --> 01:20:04,972
[imitating Armstrong] "Hey, Pops,
1423
01:20:05,055 --> 01:20:08,433
look like you cats trying
to starve old Louis to death, yeah."
1424
01:20:08,517 --> 01:20:09,643
[chuckles]
1425
01:20:09,726 --> 01:20:12,145
[normal voice]
I put on my face and grinned right back.
1426
01:20:15,482 --> 01:20:16,650
But it wasn't funny.
1427
01:20:18,569 --> 01:20:19,570
Not anymore.
1428
01:20:22,364 --> 01:20:25,659
What I saw in that look shook me.
1429
01:20:27,661 --> 01:20:28,912
It was my father.
1430
01:20:29,872 --> 01:20:31,123
My uncle.
1431
01:20:31,874 --> 01:20:34,793
Myself, down through the generations,
1432
01:20:35,794 --> 01:20:37,921
doing exactly what Louis had had to do,
1433
01:20:38,755 --> 01:20:39,882
for the same reason,
1434
01:20:41,383 --> 01:20:42,384
to survive.
1435
01:20:43,510 --> 01:20:45,262
I never laughed at Louis after that,
1436
01:20:47,389 --> 01:20:52,728
for beneath that gravel voice
and that shuffle,
1437
01:20:55,105 --> 01:21:01,486
under all that mouth with more teeth
than a piano had keys,
1438
01:21:04,156 --> 01:21:08,160
was a horn that could kill a man.
1439
01:21:09,077 --> 01:21:13,207
That horn is where Louis had
kept his manhood hid all those years.
1440
01:21:13,832 --> 01:21:16,043
Enough for him, enough for all of us.
1441
01:21:17,711 --> 01:21:20,881
["Sometimes I Feel
Like A Motherless Child" playing]
1442
01:21:25,052 --> 01:21:27,221
[trumpet playing melody]
1443
01:21:30,974 --> 01:21:33,727
[singers vocalizing]
1444
01:21:39,441 --> 01:21:41,944
[interviewer 1] I understand
you're somewhat of a politician.
1445
01:21:42,027 --> 01:21:43,820
Do you know anything about politics?
1446
01:21:43,904 --> 01:21:45,906
[chuckling] No. No.
1447
01:21:45,989 --> 01:21:49,952
Uh, politics, uh… [indistinct]
I don't think you could print that--
1448
01:21:50,911 --> 01:21:55,165
that are African golfers,
and stuff like that. [laughs]
1449
01:21:55,249 --> 01:21:59,545
[Baraka] We confuse what we perceived
as the social demeanor
1450
01:22:00,379 --> 01:22:02,923
in that context of lynching--
1451
01:22:03,423 --> 01:22:06,176
You understand? Overt segregation.
1452
01:22:06,260 --> 01:22:09,596
And we thought
that Louis was submitting to that.
1453
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:13,725
♪ Sometimes I feel ♪
1454
01:22:14,685 --> 01:22:16,603
♪ Like a motherless child ♪
1455
01:22:16,687 --> 01:22:21,108
[Baraka] You know, Louis's expression
was musical and artistic
1456
01:22:21,191 --> 01:22:22,526
and transcended that.
1457
01:22:22,609 --> 01:22:25,362
When it was possible for Louis to speak,
he spoke.
1458
01:22:31,368 --> 01:22:33,203
[Morgenstern] Louis was very sensitive
1459
01:22:33,287 --> 01:22:38,584
when people did something that he felt--
I guess the word would be "unethical."
1460
01:22:39,585 --> 01:22:43,130
[interviewer 2] What about you? Do you
think the colored students will show up?
1461
01:22:43,213 --> 01:22:45,215
If I got anything to do with it,
they won't show up.
1462
01:22:45,299 --> 01:22:48,552
Well, I think it's a breaking point
of the school integration.
1463
01:22:48,635 --> 01:22:51,263
I don't feel that they should
have a right to go to school.
1464
01:22:51,346 --> 01:22:54,349
[Danny Kaye] ♪ Oh, when the saints ♪
1465
01:22:54,433 --> 01:22:56,226
[Armstrong] ♪ When the saints ♪
1466
01:22:56,977 --> 01:22:59,229
[Kaye] ♪ Go marching in ♪
1467
01:22:59,313 --> 01:23:01,815
[Armstrong] ♪ Go marching in ♪
1468
01:23:01,899 --> 01:23:06,820
-[Kaye] ♪ When the saints go marching in ♪
-[Armstrong] ♪ Yeah ♪
1469
01:23:06,904 --> 01:23:08,822
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1470
01:23:09,323 --> 01:23:14,786
-[Kaye] ♪ I want to be in that number ♪
-[Armstrong scatting]
1471
01:23:14,870 --> 01:23:16,830
[Armstrong] ♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1472
01:23:17,581 --> 01:23:23,545
[Kaye]
♪ When the saints come marching in ♪
1473
01:23:25,672 --> 01:23:28,133
-[Kaye] ♪ When the saints ♪
-[Armstrong] ♪ Oh, when the saints ♪
1474
01:23:28,217 --> 01:23:30,844
-[Kaye] ♪ Go marching in ♪
-[Armstrong] ♪ Are marching in ♪
1475
01:23:30,928 --> 01:23:34,223
♪ Who's gonna play on the day
That the saints go marching in? ♪
1476
01:23:34,306 --> 01:23:37,976
♪ Well, man
The mostest and the greatest ♪
1477
01:23:38,060 --> 01:23:40,270
[both] ♪ From the oldest to the latest ♪
1478
01:23:40,354 --> 01:23:42,606
♪ Gonna play in the band
In the big bandstand ♪
1479
01:23:42,689 --> 01:23:44,066
♪ When the saints go marching in ♪
1480
01:23:44,149 --> 01:23:46,777
-Now, Louis, how about Brahms?
-[Armstrong] Oh, he ain't no bum.
1481
01:23:46,860 --> 01:23:48,278
[reporter] Little Rock, Arkansas.
1482
01:23:48,362 --> 01:23:49,821
The white population are determined
1483
01:23:49,905 --> 01:23:53,325
to prevent colored students from going
to the school their own children attend.
1484
01:23:53,408 --> 01:23:55,994
[Armstrong] ♪ And Mozart composed
With all he had ♪
1485
01:23:56,078 --> 01:23:58,622
[Kaye] ♪ With symphonies
And operas and all that jazz ♪
1486
01:23:58,705 --> 01:24:01,959
[reporter] Later, the Central High School
of Little Rock storm center was sealed off
1487
01:24:02,042 --> 01:24:03,085
by orders of the governor,
1488
01:24:03,168 --> 01:24:05,170
who called out the state National Guard.
1489
01:24:05,754 --> 01:24:08,966
[Kaye] ♪ Oh, when the saints
Go marching in ♪
1490
01:24:09,049 --> 01:24:10,217
[Armstrong] ♪ Oh, when the saints ♪
1491
01:24:10,300 --> 01:24:13,053
[reporter] Colored youngsters arrived
under safe conduct by the guards,
1492
01:24:13,136 --> 01:24:15,764
but no sooner had they arrived
than they were off again.
1493
01:24:15,848 --> 01:24:18,308
Arkansas had evidently decided
to make its own laws
1494
01:24:18,392 --> 01:24:19,560
on the subject of integration.
1495
01:24:19,643 --> 01:24:24,398
[Armstrong, Kaye] ♪ Go marching in ♪
1496
01:24:25,774 --> 01:24:27,818
[interviewer 3]
What are you gonna tell the Russians
1497
01:24:27,901 --> 01:24:30,320
when they ask you
about the Little Rock incident?
1498
01:24:30,404 --> 01:24:32,739
It all depends what time
they send me over there.
1499
01:24:32,823 --> 01:24:36,034
I don't think they should send me unless
they straighten that mess down South.
1500
01:24:36,118 --> 01:24:37,911
[protesters chanting]
Two, four, six, eight!
1501
01:24:37,995 --> 01:24:39,997
We don't want to integrate!
1502
01:24:42,416 --> 01:24:47,546
They've been ignoring the Constitution.
Al-Although they're taught it in school.
1503
01:24:47,629 --> 01:24:49,923
But when they go home,
their parents tell them different.
1504
01:24:50,007 --> 01:24:51,508
Say, "You don't have to abide by it
1505
01:24:51,592 --> 01:24:54,011
because we've been getting away with it
a hundred years.
1506
01:24:54,094 --> 01:24:57,806
So, uh, nobody tells on each other,
so don't bother with it."
1507
01:24:57,890 --> 01:25:02,019
So, if they ask me what's happening, uh,
if I go now, I can't tell a lie.
1508
01:25:02,102 --> 01:25:05,522
That's one thing. There's no worth
lying the way I feel about it.
1509
01:25:06,023 --> 01:25:07,774
-[interviewer 3] Thank you, Louis.
-Okay.
1510
01:25:08,317 --> 01:25:09,610
Now I'll say this to you.
1511
01:25:09,693 --> 01:25:12,988
I'll never open the public schools
in Little Rock
1512
01:25:13,071 --> 01:25:15,657
on an integrated basis
until the people say so.
1513
01:25:15,741 --> 01:25:17,576
[audience cheering]
1514
01:25:17,659 --> 01:25:19,703
[Marsalis] You know,
there's a certain type of naivete
1515
01:25:19,786 --> 01:25:21,038
that a country like this has,
1516
01:25:21,121 --> 01:25:24,750
in those who are super patriotic
and they don't see anything.
1517
01:25:25,459 --> 01:25:27,085
It's just, "Everything we do is great."
1518
01:25:27,169 --> 01:25:31,173
And then those who are not patriotic
at all and see that we don't do anything.
1519
01:25:31,757 --> 01:25:34,092
Louis Armstrong was not in either camp.
1520
01:25:34,593 --> 01:25:37,888
And I dare say that he was actually more
in the forefront of civil rights
1521
01:25:37,971 --> 01:25:39,640
in terms of making statements
1522
01:25:40,140 --> 01:25:43,227
than a lot of the so-called
modern musicians of that time were.
1523
01:25:43,310 --> 01:25:46,146
And even when he said what he said
about Eisenhower in the '50s.
1524
01:25:46,230 --> 01:25:48,273
Yeah, he was upset about segregation.
1525
01:25:48,941 --> 01:25:51,360
[Larry Lubenow] Well, he said that
as far as he was concerned,
1526
01:25:51,443 --> 01:25:53,487
Ike and the government could go to hell,
1527
01:25:54,071 --> 01:25:57,950
and he sang his version of
"The Star-Spangled Banner" to me
1528
01:25:58,033 --> 01:26:00,285
with very dirty, uh, lyrics.
1529
01:26:00,369 --> 01:26:05,457
"Oh, say, can you mothers-- MFs see
by the MF early light."
1530
01:26:06,124 --> 01:26:07,334
He was very mad.
1531
01:26:08,210 --> 01:26:10,420
[Ernie Anderson]
Then he said a number of things,
1532
01:26:10,963 --> 01:26:15,843
one of which was, "As for Orval Faubus,
he's just an ignorant plowboy."
1533
01:26:15,926 --> 01:26:17,678
[Armstrong]
Well, I think it's a damn shame
1534
01:26:17,761 --> 01:26:21,473
for people
to be so deceitful and two-faced.
1535
01:26:21,557 --> 01:26:23,433
I mean, that, uh-- that governor.
1536
01:26:23,517 --> 01:26:24,935
I mean, I bet you right now,
1537
01:26:25,018 --> 01:26:27,896
he's got an old colored mammy there
nursing his baby.
1538
01:26:27,980 --> 01:26:32,109
The nation alone, I mean,
is misguided, cold-blooded.
1539
01:26:32,192 --> 01:26:33,819
Shame just to keep it up.
1540
01:26:33,902 --> 01:26:34,903
They can't stand it.
1541
01:26:34,987 --> 01:26:36,989
I mean, how can they rest well at night
1542
01:26:37,072 --> 01:26:39,074
thinking they have to
go through that tomorrow?
1543
01:26:39,157 --> 01:26:42,160
The kids, uh, they're only doing
what their parents told 'em.
1544
01:26:43,161 --> 01:26:44,496
They wouldn't do it if--
1545
01:26:45,497 --> 01:26:48,333
I mean, the colored people
who, at the end of the day,
1546
01:26:48,417 --> 01:26:52,171
they-- I don't know why, but, uh,
when they throw their… [indistinct]
1547
01:26:52,254 --> 01:26:54,548
We throw our heart in it and everything,
1548
01:26:54,631 --> 01:26:56,884
because we're just doing it
for our country.
1549
01:26:57,718 --> 01:27:01,054
[Morgenstern] Everybody was astonished
when Louis did it publicly,
1550
01:27:01,138 --> 01:27:05,392
but privately he had expressed stuff
like that all his life.
1551
01:27:05,475 --> 01:27:10,856
You know, he was very conscious of
what we now call civil rights.
1552
01:27:10,939 --> 01:27:14,067
[Lucille]
He blew up. He put it on the line.
1553
01:27:14,151 --> 01:27:17,821
You know, and, of course,
he had very, very, very, very bad comments
1554
01:27:17,905 --> 01:27:21,074
from our political leaders
about making this particular statement.
1555
01:27:21,158 --> 01:27:24,161
That-- You know,
they interviewed Adam Clayton Powell.
1556
01:27:24,244 --> 01:27:25,996
They interviewed Sammy Davis.
1557
01:27:26,079 --> 01:27:27,539
They put Pops down
1558
01:27:28,040 --> 01:27:30,876
because they said he was a musician,
he didn't know what he was talking about.
1559
01:27:30,959 --> 01:27:32,836
Louis was that kind of person.
1560
01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:34,213
He-- Either he said nothing,
1561
01:27:34,296 --> 01:27:35,339
and when he got angry,
1562
01:27:35,422 --> 01:27:38,217
he said what was in his heart
and his mind.
1563
01:27:38,300 --> 01:27:41,803
[Al Cobette] It seems that
the White House was waiting for
1564
01:27:41,887 --> 01:27:44,097
some big name to speak out,
1565
01:27:44,181 --> 01:27:46,308
and Louis made his statement today,
1566
01:27:46,391 --> 01:27:48,727
and the troops were in Little Rock
the next morning.
1567
01:27:48,810 --> 01:27:52,898
[Lucille] After he'd made the statement,
he sent Eisenhower a wire saying that
1568
01:27:52,981 --> 01:27:56,151
"If you will go in with the troops,
I'll go with you."
1569
01:27:57,277 --> 01:27:59,947
[interviewer 4] That's little known,
you know, uh… [stammers]
1570
01:28:00,030 --> 01:28:01,949
[Lucille]
Oh, you know, it's a funny thing.
1571
01:28:02,032 --> 01:28:05,452
Nobody really stopped to really dig Pops,
and it's an unfortunate thing.
1572
01:28:05,536 --> 01:28:08,080
He felt it deeply. He really did.
1573
01:28:08,580 --> 01:28:10,582
[interviewer 4] A prophet is without honor
in his own country.
1574
01:28:10,666 --> 01:28:12,543
-[Lucille] That's it.
-[interviewer 4] Mmm.
1575
01:28:12,626 --> 01:28:14,211
[Armstrong] ♪ Yes ♪
1576
01:28:14,294 --> 01:28:15,754
-[director] Great.
-[Armstrong laughs]
1577
01:28:15,838 --> 01:28:18,465
[director] We're gonna do this once more.
Louis, and say…
1578
01:28:18,549 --> 01:28:20,926
♪ Set man free ♪
1579
01:28:21,009 --> 01:28:22,469
-[Armstrong] Me too?
-[director] We-- No.
1580
01:28:22,553 --> 01:28:23,595
When they get through…
1581
01:28:23,679 --> 01:28:25,138
♪ Set man free ♪
1582
01:28:25,222 --> 01:28:30,102
[Armstrong] ♪ They say I look like God ♪
1583
01:28:30,185 --> 01:28:34,314
[singers] ♪ In the image of God
Created he them ♪
1584
01:28:34,398 --> 01:28:37,734
[Armstrong] ♪ Could God be Black? ♪
1585
01:28:37,818 --> 01:28:40,195
♪ My God ♪
1586
01:28:40,279 --> 01:28:45,367
[Morgenstern] The Real Ambassadors.
It was meant to be a stage show.
1587
01:28:45,450 --> 01:28:49,454
And, uh, unfortunately,
it never made it to Broadway.
1588
01:28:50,247 --> 01:28:52,416
The tale of it was
1589
01:28:52,499 --> 01:28:57,462
that jazz represented America
in a very special way
1590
01:28:57,546 --> 01:29:02,134
and that jazz musicians
were the real ambassadors,
1591
01:29:02,217 --> 01:29:05,137
not politicians or speech makers.
1592
01:29:05,220 --> 01:29:07,931
[Armstrong] ♪ Can it be? ♪
1593
01:29:08,015 --> 01:29:09,558
[chorus] ♪ Hallelujah ♪
1594
01:29:09,641 --> 01:29:12,269
[Marsalis] He brought the same thing
to every song he sang,
1595
01:29:12,352 --> 01:29:13,687
understanding the human condition.
1596
01:29:13,770 --> 01:29:16,190
Any kind of lyrics,
he could just imbue with that.
1597
01:29:16,690 --> 01:29:19,443
That understanding, it's like a--
It's a spiritual thing.
1598
01:29:19,526 --> 01:29:21,904
It's a depth and an insight.
1599
01:29:21,987 --> 01:29:26,575
[Armstrong]
♪ He's watching all the Earth ♪
1600
01:29:27,159 --> 01:29:31,288
[host] The simple emotional impact of jazz
has cut through all kinds of barriers.
1601
01:29:31,371 --> 01:29:33,999
Louis Armstrong has become
an extraordinary kind of…
1602
01:29:34,082 --> 01:29:35,751
roaming ambassador of goodwill.
1603
01:29:35,834 --> 01:29:37,878
Well, you might say
he's America's ambassador with a horn.
1604
01:29:38,462 --> 01:29:41,715
[Armstrong] ♪ I'm the real ambassador ♪
1605
01:29:42,508 --> 01:29:47,346
♪ It is evident I was sent
By government to take your place ♪
1606
01:29:47,429 --> 01:29:49,348
♪ All I do is play the blues ♪
1607
01:29:49,431 --> 01:29:51,308
[Armstrong]
See, Jack, I think you're wrong
1608
01:29:51,391 --> 01:29:53,101
about me being the ambassador.
1609
01:29:53,185 --> 01:29:56,104
I think jazz is the ambassador.
1610
01:29:56,188 --> 01:30:00,734
Well, I might be the courier
that takes the message over there.
1611
01:30:00,817 --> 01:30:03,654
But it's jazz that does the talking.
1612
01:30:03,737 --> 01:30:07,658
My horn and me have traveled
from Sweden to Spain,
1613
01:30:07,741 --> 01:30:10,118
and when I played Berlin,
1614
01:30:10,202 --> 01:30:13,997
a lot of them cats jumped the iron fence
to hear old Satchmo. [laughs]
1615
01:30:14,873 --> 01:30:18,669
Ah, which proves
that music is stronger than nations.
1616
01:30:18,752 --> 01:30:20,754
I don't know much about politics,
1617
01:30:20,838 --> 01:30:23,090
but I know these people
in foreign countries
1618
01:30:23,173 --> 01:30:26,510
hear all kinds of things about America,
1619
01:30:26,593 --> 01:30:28,929
some good, some bad.
1620
01:30:29,012 --> 01:30:31,723
I'm pretty sure
what comes out of this horn
1621
01:30:31,807 --> 01:30:34,434
makes them feel better about us.
1622
01:30:35,394 --> 01:30:40,566
One thing is sure, they know
a trumpet ain't no cannon. [laughs]
1623
01:30:41,066 --> 01:30:44,862
[John F. Kennedy] It ought to be possible
for American consumers of any color
1624
01:30:45,571 --> 01:30:49,825
to receive equal service
in places of public accommodation,
1625
01:30:50,325 --> 01:30:54,580
such as hotels and restaurants
and theaters and retail stores,
1626
01:30:55,330 --> 01:30:59,376
without being forced to resort
to demonstrations in the street.
1627
01:30:59,459 --> 01:31:01,253
[interviewer 5]
When you return to the United States,
1628
01:31:01,336 --> 01:31:05,048
do you intend to take a more active part
in civil rights?
1629
01:31:05,132 --> 01:31:10,470
They have, uh, other people, politicians,
who take care of things like that.
1630
01:31:10,554 --> 01:31:16,768
And so the best I can do is, uh,
put a little, uh, something in their till.
1631
01:31:16,852 --> 01:31:18,145
And that's my part.
1632
01:31:18,812 --> 01:31:20,397
-That's the best I can do.
-[interviewer 5] Uh…
1633
01:31:20,480 --> 01:31:22,608
Because, uh, I love everybody.
1634
01:31:22,691 --> 01:31:25,235
I mean, uh, the white people,
1635
01:31:25,319 --> 01:31:28,405
they're my greatest fans
all through the South.
1636
01:31:28,488 --> 01:31:32,409
We stay in the best hotels,
and they give us the best courtesies,
1637
01:31:32,492 --> 01:31:38,165
and, uh, my biggest audience is
people all over the United States.
1638
01:31:38,665 --> 01:31:41,251
So I can't abuse e-either one.
1639
01:31:42,085 --> 01:31:47,716
So I don't ignore the-- the--
the march and the-- the-- whatever it is.
1640
01:31:47,799 --> 01:31:52,095
I just do my little part
by putting a little money in my part.
1641
01:31:52,804 --> 01:31:55,265
Which some of them don't do, but I do.
1642
01:31:55,349 --> 01:31:57,643
-You understand Pops? That's right.
-[interviewer 5] Mmm.
1643
01:31:59,520 --> 01:32:03,440
[Nas] "For me, if I'd be out somewhere
marching with a sign
1644
01:32:03,524 --> 01:32:05,776
and some cat hits me in my chops,
1645
01:32:05,859 --> 01:32:06,944
I'm finished.
1646
01:32:07,027 --> 01:32:10,072
A trumpet man gets hit in the chops,
and he's through.
1647
01:32:10,614 --> 01:32:13,784
If my people don't dig me the way
that I am, I'm sorry.
1648
01:32:14,451 --> 01:32:17,996
If they don't go along with me
giving my dough instead of marching…
1649
01:32:19,164 --> 01:32:21,375
Well, every cat's entitled to his opinion.
1650
01:32:22,084 --> 01:32:25,796
But that's the way I figure
I can help out and still keep working.
1651
01:32:25,879 --> 01:32:29,633
If they let me alone on this score,
I'll do my part in my way.
1652
01:32:29,716 --> 01:32:33,554
Pops, I come out of a part of the South
where it ain't no way in the world
1653
01:32:33,637 --> 01:32:35,556
you can forget you're colored.
1654
01:32:35,639 --> 01:32:38,267
My own mother went through hell
down there.
1655
01:32:38,350 --> 01:32:40,519
My grandma used to have tears in her eyes
1656
01:32:40,602 --> 01:32:43,689
when she'd talk about the lynchings
and all that crap.
1657
01:32:43,772 --> 01:32:48,026
Even myself, I've seen things
that would make my flesh crawl.
1658
01:32:48,735 --> 01:32:53,115
But it wasn't a damn thing I could do
about it and keep on breathing."
1659
01:32:53,699 --> 01:32:56,994
[interviewer 6] Louis, how much weight
have you lost? You're skinny as a rail.
1660
01:32:57,494 --> 01:32:59,663
[Armstrong] Well, uh, I don't know,
1661
01:32:59,746 --> 01:33:03,250
around 40, 45 pounds, like that,
in a couple of months.
1662
01:33:03,333 --> 01:33:05,794
Just took it easy, you know, and--
1663
01:33:05,878 --> 01:33:07,671
What'd you do about the wardrobe?
1664
01:33:07,754 --> 01:33:10,299
Well, I just got rid of it.
I mean, it was a pleasure.
1665
01:33:10,382 --> 01:33:12,467
Y-You can't take them up but once.
1666
01:33:12,551 --> 01:33:15,012
So, I took it up once,
and it was still too big.
1667
01:33:15,095 --> 01:33:16,096
So that was it.
1668
01:33:17,973 --> 01:33:19,725
[interviewer 7] Mr. Armstrong,
everybody calls you Louis,
1669
01:33:19,808 --> 01:33:21,268
-and I hope I can.
-[Armstrong] Yes.
1670
01:33:21,351 --> 01:33:24,146
[interviewer 7] You've been very sick
the last couple of years. How you feeling?
1671
01:33:24,229 --> 01:33:28,317
[Armstrong] Well, I feel fine now,
you know, and like the old saying, uh…
1672
01:33:28,400 --> 01:33:29,776
"I've left it all behind me."
1673
01:33:29,860 --> 01:33:32,070
[interviewer 7] You went into
the intensive care unit twice.
1674
01:33:32,154 --> 01:33:33,363
[Armstrong] Twice, yeah, yeah.
1675
01:33:33,447 --> 01:33:35,657
[interviewer 7] Did you think your life
was coming to an end?
1676
01:33:35,741 --> 01:33:38,660
A man going into intensive care twice,
1677
01:33:38,744 --> 01:33:40,704
you know, he's looking right at Gabriel,
1678
01:33:40,787 --> 01:33:41,788
and he's calling me.
1679
01:33:41,872 --> 01:33:43,832
He wants to blow a duet with me.
1680
01:33:43,916 --> 01:33:45,167
[both laughing]
1681
01:33:45,250 --> 01:33:48,420
But I said, "No, daddy,
your-- your union card ain't straight.
1682
01:33:48,504 --> 01:33:49,630
I better wait."
1683
01:33:49,713 --> 01:33:51,340
[both laughing]
1684
01:33:51,965 --> 01:33:54,718
[Armstrong]
When I was in the Beth Israel Hospital,
1685
01:33:54,801 --> 01:33:58,430
boy, I got boxes and boxes of mail
1686
01:33:58,514 --> 01:34:01,016
from everywhere over the waters.
1687
01:34:01,099 --> 01:34:05,854
"Come on, Satch, get out of that bed
and come blow. We're waiting for you."
1688
01:34:06,772 --> 01:34:09,733
[Tomasso] Hello, Louis. This is Enrico.
1689
01:34:10,526 --> 01:34:16,156
I hope you are getting better,
and we are all praying for you.
1690
01:34:16,240 --> 01:34:19,034
[interviewer 8] How many more years
do you think you'll be blowing that horn?
1691
01:34:19,117 --> 01:34:21,078
[Armstrong]
Well, I'll be blowing all my life.
1692
01:34:21,161 --> 01:34:23,205
I mean, that's the way it'll be, you know.
1693
01:34:23,288 --> 01:34:28,627
And I-- Even if I'll be teaching some kids
or something, I'll always be around music.
1694
01:34:28,710 --> 01:34:32,089
Satchmo, you've been everywhere
and done just about everything.
1695
01:34:32,172 --> 01:34:34,883
Is there anything you haven't done
that you'd like to do?
1696
01:34:34,967 --> 01:34:38,720
Yeah, keep living.
[chuckles] I ain't finished yet.
1697
01:34:42,015 --> 01:34:44,184
[Armstrong] ♪ I see trees of green ♪
1698
01:34:44,268 --> 01:34:45,435
[audience applauding]
1699
01:34:46,937 --> 01:34:49,147
♪ Red roses too ♪
1700
01:34:50,148 --> 01:34:55,988
♪ I see them bloom for me and you ♪
1701
01:34:56,655 --> 01:35:00,325
♪ And I think to myself ♪
1702
01:35:02,077 --> 01:35:06,456
♪ What a wonderful world ♪
1703
01:35:10,377 --> 01:35:14,131
♪ I see skies of blue ♪
1704
01:35:14,214 --> 01:35:18,468
There's a zillion people who dug that tune
the way I did it when I felt it
1705
01:35:19,178 --> 01:35:23,557
because, uh,
there's so much in "Wonderful World"
1706
01:35:23,640 --> 01:35:29,188
that brings me back to my neighborhood
where I live in Corona, uh, New York.
1707
01:35:29,771 --> 01:35:32,774
Lucille and I, ever since we married,
1708
01:35:32,858 --> 01:35:35,986
we've been right there in that block.
1709
01:35:36,069 --> 01:35:39,823
And everybody keeps their little homes up
like we do.
1710
01:35:39,907 --> 01:35:41,992
And it's just like one big family.
1711
01:35:42,075 --> 01:35:45,579
I saw three generations come up
in them blocks.
1712
01:35:45,662 --> 01:35:46,872
So that's why I can say,
1713
01:35:46,955 --> 01:35:52,336
♪ I hear babies cry and ♪
1714
01:35:52,419 --> 01:35:55,923
♪ I've watched them grow ♪
1715
01:35:56,006 --> 01:36:01,970
♪ They'll learn much more
Than I'll ever know ♪
1716
01:36:02,721 --> 01:36:05,766
♪ And I think to myself ♪
1717
01:36:07,809 --> 01:36:12,523
♪ What a wonderful world ♪
1718
01:36:15,359 --> 01:36:22,366
♪ Yes, I think to myself ♪
1719
01:36:23,659 --> 01:36:30,666
♪ What a wonderful world ♪
1720
01:36:33,752 --> 01:36:38,882
My doctor came to hear me blow,
and he was perfectly satisfied.
1721
01:36:38,966 --> 01:36:42,261
He examined me thoroughly
1722
01:36:42,344 --> 01:36:46,932
to see if my blowing affected
the old ticker, you know.
1723
01:36:47,015 --> 01:36:52,563
And the beats were perfectly normal.
1724
01:36:52,646 --> 01:36:55,774
Yeah.
1725
01:36:55,858 --> 01:36:59,653
[singer] ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
1726
01:37:00,153 --> 01:37:04,449
♪ Happy birthday, dear Louis ♪
1727
01:37:05,075 --> 01:37:10,372
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
1728
01:37:10,455 --> 01:37:14,126
This is seven-- seventy steps.
1729
01:37:15,252 --> 01:37:17,379
And ten more steps, I'll be in heaven.
1730
01:37:17,462 --> 01:37:19,298
[host laughing]
1731
01:37:20,132 --> 01:37:21,967
[Lucille] It had been my opinion
1732
01:37:22,050 --> 01:37:24,803
that Louis was gonna drop dead
on stage one day.
1733
01:37:25,387 --> 01:37:28,348
I didn't feel bad about that
because if he had to go, I think,
1734
01:37:28,432 --> 01:37:30,767
"What better way to go
than doing the thing you love to do?"
1735
01:37:39,276 --> 01:37:44,239
[Feather] A lot of us would be very happy
to have accomplished
1736
01:37:44,323 --> 01:37:46,867
to the extent that he did
what we originally set out to do.
1737
01:37:47,659 --> 01:37:50,746
He had all the material things
that he needed, but more importantly,
1738
01:37:50,829 --> 01:37:54,499
he had the respect
and the love of millions of people.
1739
01:37:54,583 --> 01:37:57,836
I mean, literally millions,
all over the world.
1740
01:37:58,420 --> 01:38:00,214
What more could any man ask for?
1741
01:38:01,215 --> 01:38:06,512
[Lucille] The night Louis passed,
I had no idea, this man--
1742
01:38:06,595 --> 01:38:08,680
He disappointed-- He was doing so well.
1743
01:38:08,764 --> 01:38:10,307
It was a shock to me.
1744
01:38:10,390 --> 01:38:12,518
And he was telling me, he says,
"You know, I feel good."
1745
01:38:12,601 --> 01:38:14,478
He says,
"You know, I've got to get back to work."
1746
01:38:14,561 --> 01:38:20,692
So that's the mood Louis was in
on the 5th of July of 1971.
1747
01:38:31,620 --> 01:38:33,622
[Ella Fitzgerald singing "April in Paris"]
1748
01:38:58,981 --> 01:39:01,900
[trumpet playing]
1749
01:39:06,321 --> 01:39:09,199
[reporter] Music kept
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong rolling
1750
01:39:09,283 --> 01:39:10,742
for 71 years,
1751
01:39:10,826 --> 01:39:14,454
until this morning when he died
in his sleep in his home in New York.
1752
01:39:14,538 --> 01:39:18,000
He had been battling heart
and kidney ailments for years.
1753
01:39:18,083 --> 01:39:20,878
[Walter Cronkite]
We aren't saying goodbye to Louis tonight,
1754
01:39:20,961 --> 01:39:23,255
for a man's music does not die with him.
1755
01:39:23,338 --> 01:39:24,965
Certainly not this man's.
1756
01:39:25,048 --> 01:39:27,926
While we can only guess
how Beethoven played the piano
1757
01:39:28,010 --> 01:39:30,512
or Mozart conducted an orchestra,
1758
01:39:30,596 --> 01:39:34,641
the sounds of Louis singing, playing,
or just plain talking
1759
01:39:34,725 --> 01:39:37,311
will live as long as there is anyone
to listen.
1760
01:39:38,187 --> 01:39:41,690
[interviewee 1] Well, he was
a great artist and a very sweet man.
1761
01:39:42,524 --> 01:39:45,527
[interviewee 2]
Down-to-earth, a lovely neighbor,
1762
01:39:46,945 --> 01:39:50,073
he was a regular,
and he just loved to be around people.
1763
01:39:50,157 --> 01:39:54,411
He was more of a friend
instead of celebrity in the neighborhood.
1764
01:40:03,045 --> 01:40:05,130
[interviewer 9]
Bobby Hackett, learn anything from him?
1765
01:40:05,923 --> 01:40:08,634
[Hackett]
To me, Pops was truly an immortal man.
1766
01:40:09,218 --> 01:40:11,887
And the truth of the matter is
that he will never die.
1767
01:40:12,471 --> 01:40:16,183
I think what he left will always be heard
all over the world and enjoyed,
1768
01:40:16,934 --> 01:40:21,021
and a very gentle reminder to everybody
to love thy neighbor
1769
01:40:21,104 --> 01:40:23,023
and cut out the nonsense.
1770
01:40:23,607 --> 01:40:25,359
[Marsalis] He was a man that was beloved
1771
01:40:25,442 --> 01:40:28,320
with a certain depth and intensity
that you cannot fathom.
1772
01:40:28,820 --> 01:40:30,948
It was 'cause of how he touched people.
1773
01:40:31,031 --> 01:40:33,659
[song continues]
1774
01:40:40,707 --> 01:40:42,960
[trumpet playing]
1775
01:40:47,589 --> 01:40:49,716
[song ends]
1776
01:40:49,800 --> 01:40:55,138
[Armstrong] Well, folks, that was my life,
and I enjoyed all of it.
1777
01:40:55,722 --> 01:40:56,807
Yes, I did.
1778
01:40:57,432 --> 01:40:59,518
I don't feel ashamed at all.
1779
01:41:00,310 --> 01:41:06,233
My life has always been an open book,
so I have nothing to hide.
1780
01:41:07,025 --> 01:41:10,612
Bye-bye. Love aplenty.
1781
01:41:11,530 --> 01:41:17,578
Soul foodly, "Satchmo" Louis Armstrong.
1782
01:41:22,040 --> 01:41:24,334
[Armstrong]
This is one number I like to do, folks,
1783
01:41:24,418 --> 01:41:28,338
and it tells you a whole lot
about my life.
1784
01:41:28,422 --> 01:41:30,340
-I can't tell it all, you know.
-[crowd laughs]
1785
01:41:30,424 --> 01:41:33,385
But let's give you a good synopsis.
[laughs]
1786
01:41:33,468 --> 01:41:35,387
[piano playing "Boy From New Orleans"]
1787
01:41:47,816 --> 01:41:54,031
♪ When I was born long ago ♪
1788
01:41:56,950 --> 01:42:01,997
♪ July the 4th, 19-0-0 ♪
1789
01:42:04,458 --> 01:42:11,089
♪ It was back of town in James Alley ♪
1790
01:42:13,175 --> 01:42:18,889
♪ A boy from New Orleans ♪
1791
01:42:20,516 --> 01:42:27,231
♪ When I was only five or so ♪
1792
01:42:29,691 --> 01:42:34,905
♪ Down Rampart Street I used to go ♪
1793
01:42:36,949 --> 01:42:43,330
♪ That's when I heard
The great King Oliver ♪
1794
01:42:45,374 --> 01:42:51,255
♪ Blowing jazz from New Orleans ♪
1795
01:42:52,881 --> 01:42:56,677
Now folks, all these years…
1796
01:42:59,221 --> 01:43:00,973
I've had a ball.
1797
01:43:04,476 --> 01:43:08,313
Oh, thank you, Lord. [chuckles]
1798
01:43:09,940 --> 01:43:12,526
And I thank you all. [stammers]
1799
01:43:14,611 --> 01:43:18,240
♪ You are very kind ♪
1800
01:43:19,783 --> 01:43:23,537
♪ To old Satchmo, yes ♪
1801
01:43:24,496 --> 01:43:27,249
-Nice looking boy, ain't he? [chuckles]
-[audience laughs]
1802
01:43:27,332 --> 01:43:34,339
♪ A boy from New Orleans ♪
1803
01:43:36,216 --> 01:43:41,471
[scats]
1804
01:43:41,555 --> 01:43:46,894
[audience cheering, applauding]
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