Record ID:
36588453 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
LC number:
  • n 50001506 no 98025183
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19010804
  • New Orleans, La.
Death:
  • 19710706
  • New York, N.Y.
Fields of activity:
  • jazz
Used for:
  • Armstrong, Satchmo, 1901-1971
  • Satchmo, 1901-1971
Notes:
  • His Swing that music ... 1936.
  • Village voice, 8/23/88: Giddins, G. Happy birthday, Pops (baptismal files of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, New Orleans, indicate b. Aug. 4, 1901; baptized Aug. 25, 1901)
  • Medearis, A.S. Little Louis and the jazz band, c1994 t.p. (Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong)
  • Fax from G. Giddins, Jan. 15, 1998 (photocopy of page from the baptismal register for the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church giving Aug. 4, 1901 as birth date; photocopy of page from the 1910 census (which was taken Apr. 22 or 23, 1910) listing him as eight years old)
  • The Penguin encyclopedia of popular music, 1990 p. 39 (Armstrong, Louis; b. Aug. 4, 1901, New Orleans, La.; d. July 6, 1971, N.Y.C.; a baptismal certificate discovered in 1988 confirmed this birthdate)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)399442
  • 000001598237
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng DLC DLC UPB-Mu DLC
Authentication code:
  • kin