Struttin with some Barbecue

This is a piece that Armstrong wrote - perhaps together with his second wife, Lil Hardin. Here's a bit of a performance apparently from 1951. Armstrong recorded this piece forty two times!



Here's a brief clip evidently from the Murrow piece on Armstrong - Satchmo the Great. By the way, Sidney Bechet frequently performed at Le Vieux Colombier with Claude Luter:



Actually, Louis probably got his first horn from the Karnofsky family before going to the Colored Waifs Home. They were junk and coal dealers that Louis worked for as a child. According to his memoirs, Louis played a tin horn to attract customers for them and they later helped him buy his first cornet. To close, here's a performance by the Marsalis family: