Dave Lepori/San Jose Stage Company L. Peter Callendar portrays jazz great Louis Armstrong in the solo show “Satchmo at the Waldorf.”
When it comes to “Satchmo,” aka Louis Armstrong, one of the preeminent pillars of American jazz, there is a radiance to hearing how he felt about some of his most famous tunes.
Take “Hello Dolly” for example. His deliciously gritty and grainy vocal register enters the recording immediately, with a poppy ebullience that ended up knocking four lads from Liverpool off the top of the charts in the mid-1960s.
Satchmo has a different take on the ditty’s greatness, however. “Dolly ain’t much