Happy Birthday, Louis

Louis Armstrong, great jazz trumpeter and no mean singer, either, born today in 1901. His recordings with Ella Fitzgerald are classics. His Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings practically created modern jazz.

A few days ago I was watching TCM and they were showing a bunch of Big Band movies (The Benny Goodman Story, The Glenn Miller Story, The Gene Krupa Story). Their voice-over lady announced that the next movie featured "the great Sotchmo himself". Argh.

(ps - she also said the name of it was The Gene Cruppa Story...)