“I get automatic goosebumps just holding it and looking at it,” said Zollar. To mark the occasion, jazz musicians James Zollar and Lessie Vonner played the trumpet on the steps of the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, N.Y., where Satchmo once lived. The auction marks the trumpet’s return to Armstrong’s birth state of New York. “His distinctive scat singing in that fabulous gravelly voice, his soaring and confident trumpet solos, the fluidity with which he swung in and out of his ensemble: this was the Louis Armstrong that made American jazz.” “This was a time in his life when he was totally in control,” said MacGuire. They had become great friends, MacGuire explained the Donins can even be heard joking on Armstrong’s reel-to-reel tapes. In 1953, he gave this trumpet to Duke, the son of Abe and Frances Donin, two jazz aficionados whom Armstrong and his wife Lucille had met in Los Angeles in the 1930s.
The high bids are estimated between $60,000 and $80,000.Īccording to Christie’s, it’s likely that Armstrong played the Donin trumpet on The California Concerts, a live album recorded in 1951 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.Īrmstrong would play his instruments for about five years before giving them away as gifts, said Christie’s senior specialist Becky MacGuire. The trumpet will be auctioned at Christie’s in New York on Oct. It’s inscribed with “Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong/7/10/53” on the worn gold-plated brass. The exceptionally rare instrument is a Selmer Model 19 balanced-action, medium-bore trumpet made in 1948. One of the trumpets played by Louis Armstrong in the early 1950s is heading to auction.
Inscribed ‘DUKE DONIN/from LOUIS “SATCHMO” ARMSTRONG/7/10/53.’ Christie's By Adam Feibel A Selmer model 19 Balanced Action Medium Bore Trumpet, Henri Selmer, Paris, 1948.
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