Trumpets: Armstrong to Eldrige
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
label: Collection Collector
content: Smith, Ernie
label: Collection Performer
content: Webster, Ben
label: Collection Performer
content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
label: Collection Performer
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
label: Collection Performer
content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
label: Collection Performer
content: Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David), 1909-1986
label: Collection Performer
content: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-
label: Collection Performer
content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
label: Collection Performer
content: Davis, Miles
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 2: Additional Titles
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Motion picture film
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content: Reel OF 491.66
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Moving Images [31983000034132]
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content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: 980f., b&w, an Ernie Smith compilation reel and despite the title the footage is mostly of Armstrong singing and not playing and there is no Edridge.

1. New Orleans, excerpt

Copyright: 1947

Corporate Creator: Embassy/Jules Levy Productions, distributed by Uniated Artists

Producer: Jules Levy

Director: Arthur Lubin

Performer(s): Louis Armstrong All-Stars; personnel: Kid Ory, Barney Bigard, Charlie Beale (p), Bud Scott (g), Red Callendar (b), Zutty Singleton, Billie Holiday

Song Title(s): a. "Do You Know What It Means", vocals by Holiday b. "This is Where the Blues Was Born", vocals by Armstrong

2. "Back O' Town Blues"

Descriptive Summary: A concert performance, Armstrong on trumpet and vocals.

3. "Rockin' Chair"

Descriptive Summary: A concert with Bobby Hackett, Jack Teagarden, Cozy Cole, Armstrong on trumpet, vocals by Armstrong and Teagarden.

4. Schaefer Beer commercial

5. Tribute

Copyright:

Corporate Creator: USIA

Producer: Sidney J. Stiber Productions, Inc.

Performer(s): narrated by Willis Conover

Song Title(s):

1. "I Can't Give You Anything But Love", vocals by Armstrong

2. "Cabaret", vocals by Armstrong

Descriptive Summary: Includes early stills of Armstrong and New Orleans, film clips of New Orleans, Armstrong's transition from jazz musician to entertainer, creation of the All-Stars in the 1940s.

Video reference copy