Rare footage of Louis Armstrong recording in 1959 was unearthed recently. Louis Armstrong House Museum
The Louis Armstrong House Museum has acquired the only known film of the great jazz musician in a recording studio, footage that was discovered in a storage facility.
The record producer, Sid Frey, had the film professionally shot but wound up not doing anything with it or telling anyone about it. Michael Cogswell, the New York City museum’s executive director, called it “a groundbreaking discovery.”
The museum announced the acquisition Wednesday. “The film has spent the past six decades in private hands or in a storage locker. Not even the most diligent Armstrong researchers knew it existed,” he said.
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