1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:04:30,395 --> 00:04:34,233 American people, they the most grandest people on Earth. 4 00:04:34,316 --> 00:04:37,319 And I'm from America, well, quite naturally, 5 00:04:37,402 --> 00:04:39,363 I don't have no fucking flag 6 00:04:39,446 --> 00:04:41,782 other than a Black flag. 7 00:12:10,772 --> 00:12:15,277 In New Orleans, we're, quite naturally, the first band on the radio down there… 8 00:16:20,314 --> 00:16:22,691 And then she married Willie Armstrong. 9 00:16:23,442 --> 00:16:27,446 I mean, I'm only going by what they tell me along that line. 10 00:16:27,988 --> 00:16:30,532 'Cause as long as I can remember, they wasn't together. 11 00:18:37,326 --> 00:18:39,995 Down in the district, the red-light district. 12 00:18:40,078 --> 00:18:41,788 As you call them, "prostitutes," 13 00:18:41,872 --> 00:18:43,957 where they get five dollars for a job, 14 00:18:44,041 --> 00:18:46,835 the whores where I'm talking about, up in my neighborhood, 15 00:18:46,919 --> 00:18:49,338 they get 50 cents to a dollar. 16 00:21:20,906 --> 00:21:22,241 We could, yes. 17 00:21:22,741 --> 00:21:25,869 Because he organized quartets, singing, 18 00:21:25,953 --> 00:21:29,289 then he introduced dancing out there, tap dancing. 19 00:21:29,373 --> 00:21:32,417 The boys would clap and sing, and he'd sing and dance. 20 00:21:32,501 --> 00:21:35,879 Then when I did get him to play "When the Saints Go Marching In," 21 00:21:35,963 --> 00:21:39,132 "Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet," there was a high note to be out on 22 00:21:39,216 --> 00:21:41,552 because it was at the end of the strain. 23 00:21:41,635 --> 00:21:43,470 None of the other boys couldn't make it. 24 00:21:43,554 --> 00:21:45,347 And I couldn't make it myself. 25 00:21:45,430 --> 00:21:48,058 But he would blow the high C above the staff 26 00:21:48,141 --> 00:21:49,852 to let us know that's the end of the strain. 27 00:22:38,025 --> 00:22:41,486 And I was taught to play that tune 28 00:22:41,570 --> 00:22:45,407 with every spark I had in my soul. 29 00:22:45,490 --> 00:22:48,327 On our lands we was taught. 30 00:22:48,410 --> 00:22:53,290 And when we play it, that's the feeling I have. 31 00:22:53,373 --> 00:22:56,460 And then they hoist that flag. 32 00:23:12,768 --> 00:23:15,938 Do you have a happy feeling when you play that song? 33 00:23:16,021 --> 00:23:18,440 I feel that I'm somebody. 34 00:23:20,317 --> 00:23:22,611 When I finish playing "Star-Spangled Banner," 35 00:23:22,694 --> 00:23:29,284 I feel just as proud as anybody that ever picked up a gun, 36 00:23:29,368 --> 00:23:33,914 shouldered a rifle, and said, "Forward march." 37 00:25:36,578 --> 00:25:40,415 And I carried his cornet when he wasn't blowing and marching. 38 00:25:40,499 --> 00:25:43,001 And the police would have been running me out the parade. 39 00:25:43,085 --> 00:25:44,419 You know, I stayed with him on it. 40 00:25:44,503 --> 00:25:45,504 But that's my man. 41 00:25:45,587 --> 00:25:48,841 You play in that hot sun, you know, with that uniform on, 42 00:25:48,924 --> 00:25:51,885 and he put a hanky on his neck to keep the sun off his neck. 43 00:25:51,969 --> 00:25:53,512 And he was really blowing that horn. 44 00:26:32,092 --> 00:26:33,260 Chicago was about 45 00:26:33,343 --> 00:26:37,181 the second most popular section for Black people in the country. 46 00:26:37,264 --> 00:26:40,142 It was a great migration point where people went off 47 00:26:40,225 --> 00:26:43,228 from Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas. 48 00:26:43,312 --> 00:26:44,646 You could walk to Chicago, 49 00:26:44,730 --> 00:26:48,692 just keep walking if you had enough muscles in your legs. 50 00:29:12,419 --> 00:29:16,131 I listened very carefully when Lil told me 51 00:29:16,215 --> 00:29:18,634 to always play the lead. 52 00:29:18,717 --> 00:29:21,803 He played 30 or 50 high notes, high C's, 53 00:29:21,887 --> 00:29:23,847 on this one tune they were playing. 54 00:29:23,931 --> 00:29:27,309 And the next day, everybody on the street was talking about it. 55 00:37:16,153 --> 00:37:19,531 In 1932, first time I went to Europe. 56 00:37:20,616 --> 00:37:22,618 We used to travel by boats. 57 00:37:22,701 --> 00:37:24,995 Johnny Collins was my manager then. 58 00:40:29,388 --> 00:40:30,722 Joe Glaser's a nigga. 59 00:40:31,682 --> 00:40:33,809 Joe Glaser loves Negroes. 60 00:40:33,892 --> 00:40:35,394 He was raised with niggas. 61 00:40:35,477 --> 00:40:37,771 He went to school with them. 62 00:40:38,730 --> 00:40:42,484 You know, I always felt there was a weird relationship 63 00:40:42,568 --> 00:40:44,778 between Joe Glaser and Louis. 64 00:40:44,862 --> 00:40:47,155 And I felt Louis was exploited. 65 00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,992 Louis believes that he never would've made it without Joe Glaser. 66 00:40:50,075 --> 00:40:52,327 -I think he wouldn't have. -You think that's possible? 67 00:40:52,411 --> 00:40:54,037 -Quite possible. 68 00:40:54,121 --> 00:40:57,082 You got to have good management. I don't care how great you are. 69 00:40:57,165 --> 00:41:01,753 Good management goes hand in hand with success and talent. 70 00:41:01,837 --> 00:41:04,047 He never wanted anything to do with business, right? 71 00:41:04,131 --> 00:41:06,592 He never even hired the guys in his band. 72 00:41:06,675 --> 00:41:09,178 He just wanted to concentrate on that horn. 73 00:44:09,775 --> 00:44:11,443 At five o'clock in the morning, 74 00:44:11,527 --> 00:44:13,403 Louis Armstrong had to be rushed to the hospital. 75 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,419 In Memphis, at the bus station, 76 00:47:57,503 --> 00:48:00,339 they claimed that the bus needed some work done on it 77 00:48:00,422 --> 00:48:02,508 and they were gonna take it back to have it overhauled. 78 00:48:02,591 --> 00:48:06,053 At that particular time, all the guys in Louis's band were young 79 00:48:06,136 --> 00:48:08,931 and just about as obstinate a bunch of people 80 00:48:09,014 --> 00:48:11,642 as you ever met in your life if they thought they were right. 81 00:48:11,725 --> 00:48:13,727 When nobody would give up the bus, 82 00:48:13,810 --> 00:48:17,940 then they sent for the police and arrested us for inciting a riot. 83 00:48:18,023 --> 00:48:20,776 With the intention of burning up all of our baggage and everything, 84 00:48:20,859 --> 00:48:22,277 luggage and everything, 85 00:48:22,361 --> 00:48:24,154 and putting us in the hoosegow, which they did. 86 00:48:24,238 --> 00:48:25,864 They arrested us all. 87 00:51:00,519 --> 00:51:02,688 Some guy asked me, 88 00:51:02,771 --> 00:51:04,773 he said, "Man, you're gonna take Jack Teagarden?" 89 00:51:04,857 --> 00:51:07,609 I said "Now, who am I to tell a white man he can't go down South?" 90 00:57:36,373 --> 00:57:39,793 I didn't appreciate it. I'm just showing you what I go through for no reason. 91 00:57:39,877 --> 00:57:43,380 You take the smallest fucking peckerwood, 92 00:57:43,463 --> 00:57:45,924 hand you that shit, and the big bosses appreciate you. 93 01:17:24,811 --> 01:17:27,606 First time you misplace words and do that shit, 94 01:17:27,689 --> 01:17:29,942 they gonna say you Uncle Tomming. And goddamn it-- 95 01:17:30,025 --> 01:17:33,612 And every fucking nationality comedian stays right in this category. 96 01:17:33,695 --> 01:17:35,489 Look at the Jew, doesn't he use his dialect? 97 01:17:35,572 --> 01:17:37,449 I ain't supposed to be no comedian. 98 01:17:37,533 --> 01:17:38,951 That's just everyday life, you know. 99 01:17:39,034 --> 01:17:41,370 "Suppose" my ass. You are a natural comedian. 100 01:17:41,453 --> 01:17:42,955 Yeah, well, that's all right. 101 01:18:04,726 --> 01:18:07,354 Archie got his nose broke for fighting a nigga 102 01:18:07,437 --> 01:18:10,023 'cause he didn't like the way he talked about me. 103 01:18:10,107 --> 01:18:12,901 This smug motherfucker said, "Louis Armstrong, 104 01:18:12,985 --> 01:18:14,403 Uncle Tom nigga." 105 01:18:14,486 --> 01:18:17,573 When the fuck have I "Uncle Tommed" in my life? 106 01:18:17,656 --> 01:18:19,449 I tell ya. All you have to do is 107 01:18:19,533 --> 01:18:22,744 break up your face and mug, and a nigga say you're Uncle Tom. 108 01:18:22,828 --> 01:18:26,081 -I'm there blowing this fucking horn… -A man got expressions, you know? 109 01:29:27,159 --> 01:29:31,288 The simple emotional impact of jazz has cut through all kinds of barriers. 110 01:29:31,371 --> 01:29:33,999 Louis Armstrong has become an extraordinary kind of 111 01:29:34,082 --> 01:29:35,751 roaming ambassador of goodwill. 112 01:29:35,834 --> 01:29:37,878 Well, you might say he's America's ambassador with a horn. 113 01:29:49,431 --> 01:29:53,101 See, Jack, I think you're wrong about me being the ambassador. 114 01:29:53,185 --> 01:29:56,104 I think jazz is the ambassador. 115 01:29:56,188 --> 01:30:00,734 Well, I might be the courier that takes the message over there. 116 01:30:00,817 --> 01:30:03,654 But it's jazz that does the talking. 117 01:30:03,737 --> 01:30:07,658 My horn and me have traveled from Sweden to Spain, 118 01:30:07,741 --> 01:30:10,118 and when I played Berlin, 119 01:30:10,202 --> 01:30:12,913 a lot of them cats jumped the iron fence to hear old Satchmo. 120 01:30:15,541 --> 01:30:18,669 Which proves that music is stronger than nations. 121 01:30:18,752 --> 01:30:20,754 I don't know much about politics, 122 01:30:20,838 --> 01:30:23,090 but I know these people in foreign countries 123 01:30:23,173 --> 01:30:26,510 hear all kinds of things about America, 124 01:30:26,593 --> 01:30:28,929 some good, some bad. 125 01:30:29,012 --> 01:30:31,723 I'm pretty sure what comes out of this horn 126 01:30:31,807 --> 01:30:34,434 makes them feel better about us. 127 01:30:35,394 --> 01:30:38,772 One thing is sure, they know a trumpet ain't no cannon. 128 01:33:35,741 --> 01:33:38,660 A man going into intensive care twice, 129 01:33:38,744 --> 01:33:40,704 you know, he's looking right at Gabriel, 130 01:33:40,787 --> 01:33:41,788 and he's calling me. 131 01:33:41,872 --> 01:33:43,832 He wants to blow a duet with me. 132 01:33:45,250 --> 01:33:48,420 But I said, "No, daddy, your union card ain't straight. 133 01:33:48,504 --> 01:33:49,630 I better wait."