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The time Louis Armstrong reigned as King of the Zulus at a ... - PBS
On Fat Tuesday in 1949, the last day of the carnival season in New Orleans, thousands of exuberant parade-goers swarmed the streets to get a look at Louis Armstrong.
Reigning as Zulu was boyhood dream for Satchmo
Armstrong’s love for Zulu began when he watched the parade as a 9-year-old boy. In the 1930s, he became an honorary member of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, the fraternal organization that puts on the Zulu parade each Mardi Gras Day.
Louis Armstrong reigning over the 1949 Zulu parade
Louis Armstrong reigning over the 1949 Zulu parade ... Armstrong played in the Zulu parade as a young man and can be heard on King Oliver’s “Zulu’s Ball”; released in 1923, it became the first in an evolving canon of recordings that pay homage to the iconic social aid and pleasure club.
The time Louis Armstrong reigned as King of the Zulus at a segregated ...
This wasn’t just any Mardi Gras, for that day, Louis Armstrong, the king of jazz, would reign as the Zulu King. “There’s a thing I’ve dreamed of all my life,” Armstrong told Time magazine in 1949, “and I’ll be damned if it don’t look like it’s about to come true – to be King of the Zulu parade.
Zulu parade was the ride of a lifetime for Louis Armstrong | Mardi Gras ...
Like many kids in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong grew up watching the Zulu parade. Little did he know then that he would be forever linked to the organization.
Louis D. Armstrong Historical Marker
As a trumpet virtuoso, his highly imaginative, emotionally charged playing charted a future for jazz improvisation. Revered by his fans, the King of Jazz was appropriately crowned "King Zulu" in the 1949 Mardi Gras Zulu Parade.
King Louis: When Louis Armstrong Reigned as Zulu - Mardi Gras New Orleans
In 1949, jazz great Louis Armstrong returned to his hometown to reign as King Zulu. By all accounts, he considered the experience the crowning achievement of his life. The week before, New Orleans’ most famous son had been the first African American to make it to the cover of Time magazine.
Louis Armstrong's ride in Zulu - YouTube
Named after the fiercest of African Tribes, Zulu presents one of the season's most anticipated and spectacular parades.
February 1949 when Louis Armstrong reigned as King Zulu. He first ...
February 1949 when Louis Armstrong reigned as King Zulu. He first entered as King Zulu by boat through the New Basin Canal before the Zulu Parade for the Mardi Gras festivities .
Mardi Gras: The Passing Parade - WYES New Orleans
Special moments include: an interview with Mr. and Mrs Erik Johnsen, a former Rex and a former Queen of Rex; rare scenes of Louis Armstrong as King of the Zulu parade in 1949, along with Mardi Gras memories from Janee Mercadel Tucker, the Zulu Queen of 1977; and the colorful story of how Mardi Gras float builder Blaine Kern got his start.
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