Louis Armstrong - The Ultimate Collection [Hip-O]

The main part of this home video release consists of 13 performance clips of Louis Armstrong filmed between 1933 and 1965. (A fourteenth clip, "I Cover the Waterfront," actually plays in the menu section.) The set begins and ends ("When It's Sleepy Time Down South," "Some Day") with excerpts from a television special called Goodyear Jazz Concert shot in color in 1962. The rest of the material, including "soundies" from the '40s and other TV appearances, is in black-and-white, and it goes back and forth in time, although the focus is always on Armstrong, his horn, his playing, his idiosyncratic singing, and his flamboyant stage presence. Read More