Louis In London

The last great performance by the most influential American musician of all time, Louis Armstrong.

Recorded live at the BBC on 2 July, 1968 – just weeks after the groundbreaking Grammy Award-winning artist hit the #1 spot on the UK charts with “What A Wonderful World” – the 13-track collection is accompanied by extensive liner notes by Armstrong’s bi­ographer and Director of Research Collections for the Louis Armstrong House Museum, Ricky Riccardi.

From redefining jazz with his revolutionary trumpet playing to singlehandedly inventing popular singing, Louis Armstrong made a greater impact on American popular music than any other single artist before or since. In July 1968, Armstrong and his renowned band, The All-Stars, travelled to England and entered the BBC’s London studios to record a performance, full of vitality and joy, that manifested some of the most inspired singing and trumpet playing of his remarkable career.

Captured in high fidelity audio and video, Louis In London presents Armstrong delivering everything from the first composition he’s known to have played in public – W.C. Handy’s “Ole Miss” – to the chart-topping “What A Wonderful World” and classic versions of such worldwide hits as “Mack The Knife” and “Hello, Dolly!”