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Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story, 1900–1971. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0306803246. Riccardi, Ricky (2012). What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years. New York: Vintage. ISBN 9780307473295. OCLC 798285020. —— (2020). Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pops is a nickname for: Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), American jazz musician; Henry Beasley (1876–1949), British Army lieutenant colonel and early contract bridge player; Clarence Coleman (baseball) (1884-?), African-American baseball catcher in the pre-Negro leagues; Pops Fernandez (born 1966), Filipino singer
Armstrong in 1947. Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), nicknamed Satchmo [1] or Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz and in all of American popular music.
Some of the most notable nicknames and stage names are listed here. Although the term Jazz royalty exists for "Kings" and similar royal or aristocratic nicknames, there is a wide range of other terms, many of them obscure. Where the origin of the nickname is known, this is explained at each artist's corresponding article.
In U.S. culture, despite its republican constitution and ideology, [4] royalist honorific nicknames have been used to describe leading figures in various areas of activity, such as industry, commerce, sports, and the media; father or mother have been used for innovators, and royal titles such as king and queen for dominant figures in a field.
It is most often attributed to Joe "King" Oliver, though some have argued that Louis Armstrong was in fact the composer. [1] This is partly because "Dippermouth", in the song's title, was a nickname of Armstrong's. [2] Also, the phonograph recordings from 1922 gave credit to Armstrong and Oliver jointly. [3]
The post Louis Armstrong’s Top 10 Favorite Foods appeared first on Taste of Home. The "What a Wonderful World" singer had a voracious appetite. He loved New Orleans classics like gumbo, po' boys ...
His favorite mute was a small metal mute made by the C.G. Conn Instrument Company, with which he played his famous solo on his composition the "Dippermouth Blues" (an early nickname for fellow cornetist Louis Armstrong). His recording "Wa Wa Wa" with the Dixie Syncopators can be credited with giving the name wah-wah to such techniques. This ...