Louis Armstrong — The Offstage Story of Satchmo

Louis' charisma is wonderfully captured in this early publicity photo, Chicago 1933. Photo courtesy Louis Armstrong House and Archives

Louis was a prolific diarist and often wrote in his dressing room. Photo courtesy Louis Armstrong House and Archives

In The Voice of America studios with Bobby Hackett, Barney Bigard and Willis Conover— July, 1955. Photo courtesy Louis Armstrong House and Archives

Louis traveled everywhere with a trunk that was modified to hold his tape deck and turntable. Photo courtesy Louis Armstrong House and Archives