Louis Armstrong on Music - Rare 1968 Interview

Audio interview of Louis Armstrong in England in 1968, venting about music, praising the Beatles, criticizing musicians who just play for other musicians, reminiscing about King Oliver and more. At the end, he references a 7-year-old boy who he had just heard play the trumpet earlier that afternoon; that boy is Enrico Tomasso, still a top trumpeter in England in 2016! There's still a LOT today's musicians can learn from Louis Armstrong.
This interview excerpt is from the private collection of Ricky Riccardi, author of "What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years." Special thanks to Jonathan David Holmes. For more on Louis, see my blog at www.dippermouth.blogspot.com.

[@vipermad358]

Louis Armstrong is The Greatest American. Prove me wrong!

[@andrewcharley1893]

The funniest and most serious man all in One. Louis Armstrong is forever 😀

[@soulsinkpen3964]

I love his direct approach to the questions. He has a no nonsense reply, "why should I care?" He wasn't being rude, just being truthfully Louis

[@maxmar5364]

the man who had a voice and a smile made in heaven

[@martintanksley3561]

G.O.A.T is all I have to say ;)......

[@alanwitton5980]

He was spot on with his comments

[@soundshaper]

Like the Beatles, ain't nobody gonna top, Hard Days Night in my library. Wow! at 1:10

[@jennyplemen827]

I couldn't have said it any better. I like all good music too.

[@SwinginDrummer]

Great interview with Pops. Thanks for sharing this Ricky.

[@jazzwatch64]

Candid.....LOVE this guy.......

[@cynthiaperkins5584]

Good or Bad..that's all it is...Wisdom and a ICON.RIP AND LOVE YOU LOUIS ARMSTRONG,MY ALL TIME, STILL IS FAVORITE.

[@bobdillaber1195]

Ditto for me!

[@boomerguy9935]

One of a kind. "Music is music". I've been listening to him all of my life and I will continue to enjoy his music and his wisdom until I die.

[@bartholomewchuzzlewit4356]

My kind of person. ...can't imagine what his take would be about people on Facebook etc. What a sad path humans have gone down, all too busy texting, tweeting and twatting, and not necessarily in that order. Technology is a wonderful instrument but integrity and moral values leave it in their wake.

[@davidamathis9627]

This is a jewel.

[@bmrosario39]

Right Louis play good music,the end

[@danmaftei7633]

Amazing! I'd love to hear more.

[@nickknirk]

Love this!

[@thardingau]

Louis sounds justifiably irritated by this line of questioning.

[@kevindorn]

Thanks for posting this amazing interview!

[@JTS1128]

Now I want to hear Louis perform A Day’s Night

[@Django44]

The first question to a man who - single-handedly - had ALREADY changed music, some 40 years earlier. Louis remains the only artist in Western music whose influence over singers and instrumentalists alike was as profound as it was - and continues to be. What, pray tell, does a musician of that calibre have to do do as a 'second act'? Imagine asking the same question - altered - of Dante, Shakespeare, Marie Curie, Virginia Woolf, George Balanchine, the Wright brothers, etc. etc.

[@alansmyth2204]

AHDN wow

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

Quite profound

[@theopaopa1]

good and bad music. yes.

[@jackgilbert1735]

can I sample this?

[@soilmanted]

They could have took some beans and that's where they been blowin from. LOL.