There are so many recordings that it took the film-makers about two years to restore, digitise and transcribe them. The recordings will be heard in a forthcoming feature documentary, Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues, which will be released this autumn following its premiere this week at the Toronto international film festival. I’m just showing you what I go through for no reason.” Armstrong told him: “ ‘Why you hand me that shit? Cause I’m coloured?’… I didn’t appreciate it. In another clip, he speaks of a crew member who disrespected him, ordering him about during the filming of Glory Alley in 1952. He said, ‘I don’t like negroes but… you’re one son of a bitch I’m crazy about’.”Īrmstrong laments that the majority of white people “dislike” black people, but they always have one “that they’re just crazy about”. And so I said ‘well, I admire your Goddamn sincerity’. He remembers being insulted by an apparent fan – “a white boy”, possibly a sailor, who approached him after a show, initially shaking his hand and telling him that he had all his records, before turning on him: “He said, ‘you know, I don’t like negroes’, right to my face. On those tapes, Armstrong, who died in 1971, speaks of being “born with nothing” and the horrors of racism.
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