[Dixielandjazz] FW: Louis and WAWW

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

wow ... thanks for that blog link (it's going straight into
reader.google.com!)

and it just goes to show about television and the truth ;).

it's one of the reasons I really love this Internet, so many wrongs can be
righted when no one has to ask permission to publish :)

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:52 AM, woodlanders <woodlanders at free.fr> wrote:

> This is not just someone's blog. It is Ricky Riccardi's blog. Ricky is the
> author of What a Wonderful World, The Magic Of Louis Armstrong's Later
> Years, a great book by all means, and a fantastic account of Louis
> Armstrong All Stars years. Anyone with a slight interest in Louis Armstrong
> shoud have read it and treasure it in his own personal library. In this
> book is the answer to the question you ask, and many more.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com>
> To: "Louis" <woodlanders at free.fr>
> Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.**com<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> >
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 1:34 PM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] FW: Louis and WAWW
>
>
>
>  Gary wrote:
>>
>>> according to the Wynton Marsalis PBS series 'Jazz', Armstrong could not
>>>
>> longer play the trumpet by this point and indeed what impressed everyone
>> at
>> the time was how, despite being told by doctors he'd never play again, he
>> would release such a positive song.
>>
>>
>> Now, far from being an expert on Armstrong, this struck me as being
>> strange.
>> Searched a bit on the net, and found this:
>> http://dippermouth.blogspot.**com.es/2010/03/st-james-**
>> infirmary-november-14-19<http://dippermouth.blogspot.com.es/2010/03/st-james-infirmary-november-14-19>
>> 67.html
>>
>> Interesting reading, and there is a small clip at the end of the text with
>> Louis playing St. James Infirmary with great strength...in, apparently
>> 1967.
>>
>> I know, I know, it's just someone's blog, and I'm sure some of our fellow
>> experts can add much more...or dismiss it all.
>>
>> I'd be interested in knowing whether it is true that he was only left to
>> singing by the time he recorded WW?
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
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