Original Title : Satchmo the Great
Time : 63 Min
Genre : Music, Documentary
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 1957
Director : No data available
Writer : Edward R. Murrow
Producer : Fred W. Friendly, Edward R. Murrow
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : United States
Original Language : English
About : In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the world as American good-will ambassadors bring jazz at its best to the people of the world. Within the film, the life of Louis Armstrong is portrayed through the music. One of the outstanding scenes in this "biography/docudrama" shows blind songwriter W. C. Handy, with tears streaming down his face, as Armstrong, backed by Leonard Bernstein leading the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, play Handy's immortal "St. Louis Blues."