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Louis Armstrong: Media

American musician

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“Dinah,” 1933
Louis Armstrong performs “Dinah” in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1933.
Video: © Archive Films/Getty Images

Images

“Satchmo”
Louis Armstrong, 1953.
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: cph 3c27236 )
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong.
AP
Louis Armstrong with two brass bands
Jazz musician Louis Armstrong (front row, center) and his band posing with members...
© Transcendental Graphics—Archive Photos/Getty Images
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band performing in Chicago, 1923
Gilles Petard Collection/Getty Images
“A Kiss to Build a Dream On” by Louis Armstrong
Decca Records 78 record label, “A Kiss to Build a Dream On” by Louis Armstrong.
Collection of the San Diego Historical Society
Louis Armstrong, 1940
Jazz musician Louis Armstrong playing the trumpet in 1940
© Bettmann/Getty Images
Louis Armstrong with his band
Jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong (center) playing with his band.
© Bettmann/Getty Images
Louis Armstrong and Mariann Mathisen
American trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen, being greeted by Mariann...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Willis Conover interviewing Louis Armstrong
Willis Conover (left) interviewing Louis Armstrong for the Voice of America, 1955.
Courtesy of Voice of America
Louis Armstrong, 1946
Jazz great Louis Armstrong single-handedly invented the style of jazz that came to...
William P. Gottlieb Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-GLB13-0020)
A man of many honors
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet while Joey Adams, president of the American Guild...
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection—Orlando Fernandez/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-118976)
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band performing in Chicago, 1923.
Pictorial Press/Alamy