Photos: Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Jazz great Louis Armstrong was born Aug. 4, 1900. Take a look at some images from his career.
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Jazz great Louis Armstrong gestures to the crowd at the Atlanta Jazz Festival in Atlanta, in this June 6, 1966 photo. (AP Photo)
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Entertainer Louis Armstrong is shown in 1970 singing during the taping of a television show. (AP photo)
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Jazz great Louis Armstrong practices with his horn at his Corona, New York home on June 21, 1971. It was the first time since Satchmo had been allowed to play the horn since his hospitalization over two months ago. Doctors have restricted him to daily one and half hour warm-ups. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams)
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Jazz trumpeter Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong performs with his musicians in 1971. (AP Photo)
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong tells an interviewer in Los Angeles on July 3, 1970, he'll continue blowing his horn "until I get up to heaven." Then he wants a final duet with "that cat Gabriel." (AP Photo/Wally Fong)
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Jazz musician Louis Armstrong smiles as he recalls the old days during an interview at his home in Queens, New York, on June 10, 1970. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams)
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong, noted jazz musician, gets a wide open greeting from Ajax Bukana, GhanaÃs leading jive dancer on arrival in Accra, Ghana on Oct. 13, 1960. The top-hatted greeter was among a group which welcomed the visitor who is on a 35,000-mile concert tour of Africa. Armstrong and his band arrived in Lagos on October 18, and was given a boisterous welcome. (AP Photo)
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Jazzman Louis Armstrong is only drinking a native Argentine tea, called ìmateî from a silver mate cup, in traditional Argentine manner. He was in Buenos Aires on Nov. 14, 1957, during a tour of South America. Louis sipped the mate backstage at the Opera Theater where he was playing. (AP Photo)
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Louis Armstrong, right, famous jazz trumpeter, talks with actor Sir Laurence Oliver at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Dec. 18, 1956. Armstrong flew specially to London to play with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, in aid of the Lord Mayor of London?s Hungarian Relief Fund. He played and sang a programme of spirituals and jazz classics. (AP Photo)
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This is a publicity portrait of Louis Armstrong taken in Chicago, 1932, to promote Armstrong's first European tour. (AP Photo)
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong, who nearly died this spring, is happily back practicing for his eventual return to work, shown in the upstairs den of his Corona, New York home on June 23, 1971. Armstrong had newsmen in to show his recovery from his near-fatal illness and to thank his fans for their mail during his 10 week hospital stay. (AP Photo/John Rooney)
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Louis Armstrong, left, makes a guest appearance as Ella Fitzgerald opens at the Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, March 30, 1971. (AP Photo)
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Jazz musician Duke Ellington prepares to strike up a tune for Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong at the Rainbow Grill in New York City on Aug. 26, 1969. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Waving his white handkerchief, Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong sings at a concert in Huntington, W. Va., July 24, 1964. Armstrong uses two dozen handkerchiefs to wipe his face during a three-hour concert. (AP Photo)
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Jazz trumpeter Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong is shown with a camera in a dressing room in a theater in Rome, Italy, April 18, 1962. (AP Photo)
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, atop camel, enchants the ancient sphinx and pyramids at Giza, near Cairo, Egypt January 28, 1961. His wife Lucille, lower left, records the scene on film as the camel perks its ears in appreciation of the unusual concert. The Armstrongs are on a U.S. State Department sponsored Goodwill Tour of Africa and the Middle East. (AP Photo)
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Louis Armstrong, "King of Jazz" shows this animated expression at his press conference at the Savoy Hotel, London, May 3, 1956. Armstrong is in London on tour of Britain and starts his 10-day concert tour at the Empress Hall, London, May 4, 1956. Armstrong has also been dubbed "Satchmo" by jazz fans the world over. (AP Photo)
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
American jazz musician Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo, plays his trumpet during a performance with his band in Stockholm, Sweden in Oct. 1952. (AP Photo)
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Famed musician Louis Armstrong is shown at a recording session held in late May of 1970 for a record album to be released by July 4,1970 in connection with his 70th birthday on Aug. 4. (AP Photo)
Happy birthday, Louis Armstrong
Lucille Armstrong sits behind the flag draped casket of her jazz trumpeter husband Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, during funeral services in the Corona congregational church in Queens, N.Y. July 9, 1971. (AP Photo)