Jan 25 2008
Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong: Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
This is a segment from a 1947 film “New Orleans.” Louis Armstrong plays himself, as does Kid Ory, in this fictionalized story of the birth of Jazz. Billie Holiday is a maid in a Storyville “club.” Her duties seem to include singing with the band, which is a good thing. There are several great musical moments in this film. It’s available on DVD, so put it in your NetFlix cue.
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[…] Or led a band in New Orleans, which included at various times King Oliver, a young Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet and Jimmie Noone. He moved to California, where he formed a band Kid Ory’s Creole Orchestra in in 1919. He came to Chicago and played in bands led by King Oliver and Louis Armstrong. Ory retired from performing during the Great Depression and ran a chicken farm. He returned, however, in 1943 and revived Kid Ory’s Creole Orchestra in. Ory appeared in the 1947 United Artists film New Orleans along with Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. […]