The master takes of this two-CD set have appeared previously on a number of reissues on both LP and CD as a compilation of the original two individual records Together for...
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Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller only worked together twice, briefly in 1925 in Erskine Tate's band and four years later in the New York revue Connie's Hot Chocolates. But...
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Legacy has seen fit -- and rightfully so -- to issue the complete recordings of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Seven as individual volumes instead of just a box set. This is...
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The second volume of Legacy's brilliant collection of Louis Armstrong's complete Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings reveals the transition from quintet to septet. The first...
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The final volume of Louis Armstrong's Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings features 25 tracks. These recordings reveal how deeply and broadly Armstrong had begun to...
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More Greatest Hits contains 18 well-known selections from Louis Armstrong's recordings for RCA Victor, including "Boy From New Orleans," "I've Got the World on a String,"...
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The 18 tracks on All-Time Greatest Hits come from Louis Armstrong's "pop" era, the final decades of his career where, under the tutelage of producer Milt Gabler and arranger...
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In 1956 Edward R. Murrow narrated a feature film, Satchmo the Great, that contained highlights from some of Louis Armstrong's world tours. This soundtrack has some narration...
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16 Most Requested Songs is a mid-priced collection that attempts to spotlight many good performances by Louis Armstrong, including "Mack the Knife" and "Blueberry Hill." The...
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This French RCA double LP is the most complete single set of Armstrong's 1932-33 big-band sides, adding a couple of alternates and his one recording with country singer...
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Armstrong did some amazing stuff for Decca, especially in the late-'30s and early '40s, but their re-issues, this one included, have been poorly prepared and generally...
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Music aside (and there are many fine moments here)...some might have preferred the reissue complete sessions or at least a repackaging of this music in chronological order....
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This four-CD set does its best to summarize Louis Armstrong's career during 1923-1934, reissuing 81 of his finest recordings. The problem is that virtually all of the...
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Armstrong and the 1960 version of his All-Stars (which included trombonist Trummy Young, clarinetist Barney Bigard, pianist Billy Kyle, bassist Mort Herbert, drummer Danny...
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One of the key turning points of Louis Armstrong's career occurred at the Town Hall concert fully documented on this two-CD set, a reissue of the earlier two-LP release....
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With the exception of the alternate take of "Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train" from 1932 and a couple of numbers with a big band in 1956, this two-CD set (a straight reissue...
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This valuable CD includes Armstrong's often riotous Paris session from 1934 ("St. Louis Blues" and "Tiger Rag" almost get out of control) and then Satch's first 17 Decca...
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No thanks to a concert schedule that gave recording sessions a low priority, Louis Armstrong's period at Verve was unconscionably short -- only a little over a year (August...
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The current Decca reissue program (produced by Orrin Keepnews) has long been frustrating for completists with incomplete sessions and previously unreleased music often being...
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The Hot Fives & Sevens are such an enormously important body of work that it seems like it would be impossible to separate wheat from chaff. But, really, would anyone argue...
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This CD is part of RCA's extensive Greatest Hits jazz program, a beginner's series designed to introduce listeners to jazz, specifically RCA's jazz catalog. The 13...
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Louis Armstrong's concert at Symphony Hall with his All-Stars in 1947 was a major success, featuring the trumpeter-vocalist, trombonist Jack Teagarden, clarinetist Barney...
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This Is Jazz, Vol. 1 isn't an ideal overview of Louis Armstrong's seminal Columbia recordings, but it isn't bad, either. Many of the featured 16 songs are among Armstrong's...
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This is the place to find some of Armstrong's best work from the '40s, the period when he had become a cultural icon but was already considered to be something of a blast...
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Most of the music on this four-CD set from 1997 has been reissued many times, both on LP and CD, but this is the most "complete" set thus far. Louis Armstrong recorded for...
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Originally out on a double LP, this is a definitive set of the Louis Armstrong All-Stars of 1956. The music and many of the solos will be familiar to longtime Armstrong...
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More than any other jazz musician before or since, Louis Armstrong had a propensity for entertaining that stood him in good stead when it came time for the cameras to roll....
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Although it is by no means a definitive collection, GRP's Priceless Jazz is a nice sampler of Louis Armstrong's Decca work, highlighted by "I'm in the Mood for Love," "Ain't...
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Although this Christmas compilation is credited to "Louis Armstrong & Friends," it's really more aptly categorized as a various artists anthology, since Armstrong only has...
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Louis Armstrong is heard on two separate radio broadcasts on this Storyville CD. On May 17, 1947, his famous Town Hall concert helped lead the way to Satch finally breaking...
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This CD reissue from 1998 has its good and bad points. The good points to the reissue of 11 selections by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (the best jazz group on record in...
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A fine collection covering the years 1935 to 1956, with a particular emphasis on Louis Armstrong's late-'30s big band sides, More Priceless Jazz is a very good introduction...
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These late-night sessions include contributions from Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden and Woody Herman, with multiple takes of tracks like "Jack Armstrong Blues," "If I Could...
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This is a delightful set, a straight CD reissue of an Lp featuring Louis Armstrong in 1968 (not 1966 as it states in the liners) performing ten tunes associated with Disney...
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Louis Armstrong's 1925-1928 recordings with his Hot Fives and Hot Sevens belong in every serious jazz collection, even those owned by listeners who otherwise do not listen...
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It took domestic Columbia until the late 1980's before the label finally started a program reissuing complete and in chronological order all of Louis Armstrong's earliest...
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Special anthology presenting the last material Armstrong cut in the '30s. The flood of Armstrong reissues makes it difficult to recommend any- and everything; this certainly...
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Using different big bands purely as a backdrop by 1930, Louis Armstrong was free to stretch out with flashy virtuosic trumpet solos and often scat-filled vocal choruses....
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A legendary, much-bootlegged concert recorded at Carnegie Hall on February 8, 1947, with Edmond Hall's All-Stars, this concert marks a pivotal moment in Louis Armstrong's...
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Louis Armstrong's performance on this live set (which was actually recorded in England for a television show) was one of the last in which he played trumpet. The CD reissue...
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Armstrong's Decca years by the late '30s found him treading water, playing well on these orchestra recordings (four songs find him having a good time with The Mills...
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22 of Armstrong's big-band recordings and a couple selections with The Mills Brothers are taken in chronological order. A few ("I Double Dare You," "On the Sunny Side of the...
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A mixed bag of Armstrong, these 23 selections, if taken complete and in chronological order, include routine swing, three enjoyable numbers with The Mills Brothers, a few...
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Intercontinental's Golden Hits is a budget-priced collection of re-recordings of such hits as "Hello Dolly," "When the Saints Go Marchin' In," "Jeepers Creepers," "Ain't...
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How not to reissue important music: Put together a somewhat random sampler made out of three former Lp's, do not give the proper recording dates or any hint as to who the...
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This three-CD set brings together recorded highlights from the last 25 years of Armstrong's career, starting with his return to a small sextet from his big-band recordings...
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Sony Special Products' Legendary Louis Armstrong is an eight track sampler of his ... well, his legendary recordings for Columbia Records. There are certainly a number of...
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The avant-garde jazz of its day these sides from '23-'24 offer prime young Armstrong playing second cornet in Oliver's Creole Jazz Band plus some small group sides with...
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Louis Armstrong's tenure as second cornettist to the great King Oliver is one of jazz history's legendary apprenticeships, on a par with the one Miles Davis served with...
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Like any record company worth their salt, MCA knows a good gimmick when they see it, and when the millennium came around...well, the 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium...
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West End Blues: The Very Best of the Hot Fives & Sevens is a Music Club budget disc reissuing some of the most historic sessions in jazz history and in the career of Louis...
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Maybe it is not "essential," but this two-CD set is a definitive look at the Louis Armstrong All-Stars in their later years, when Tyree Glenn was on trombone and the group...
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Concentrating on the period of recording between November 1925 to February of 1926, this brings together 23 tracks of Armstrong's Hot Five and his work behind various female...
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Actually recorded several years before Vol. 1, this somewhat loose concert finds trombonist Jack Teagarden co-starring with Louis Armstrong on several of the selections and...
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Satchmo and company on the road in the '50s was a precision machine cruising through a repertoire cut to fit at the musical tailor. But the group always seemed to have fun...
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An obscure concert performance, probably from around 1961-63 (no date is given), the erratic recording quality and somewhat typical repertoire keep this from being highly...
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Louis Armstrong with the Russell Garcia Orchestra and the Oscar Peterson Quartet hits the standards, the latter including Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b), and Louie Bellson...
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An album with Duke Ellingtion, this is a joyful collaboration by two of the greatest names in jazz. Tunes include "Mood Indigo," "Black and Tan Fantasy," and other Ellington...
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Columbia's Greatest Hits is good sampling of Louis Armstrong's most popular hits, capturing familiar versions of such staples as "A Theme from the Threepenny Opera (Mack the...
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All-Time Best of Louis Armstrong is an uneven but entertaining collection of ten random vocal-pop hits from the latter part of Armstrong's long, prolific career, featuring...
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Some of Louis Armstrong's better Decca recordings from the 1936-1938 period are reissued on this CD. Inferior to the much more "complete" series undertaken by the European...
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Louis Armstrong's commercial resurgence with the song "Hello, Dolly!" -- a number one hit that unseated the Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" from the top spot -- came as such a...
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With superior transfers by British music engineer John R.T. Davies, this JSP reissue of the first 25 sides by Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens is a first-choice...
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A collection of songs by Louis Armstrong, recorded in the late '50s and early '60s. These are primarily vocal works, mostly pop tunes, with relatively little trumpet work...
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Other than the soundtrack version of "Jeepers Creepers" and two other items, all of this CD is taken from broadcasts of Armstrong's little-known and unrecorded orchestra of...
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This single-CD, unlike the more comprehensive Classics series, has just some of the highlights from Louis Armstrong's Victor recordings of 1932-33. The backup big band...
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This Storyville CD has two radio broadcasts that emanated from San Francisco's Club Hangover by Louis Armstrong's 1954 All Stars. The first 15 minutes are from a New Year's...
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Numerous Louis Armstrong concerts have been issued, but this 1948 broadcast of excerpts from two back-to-back performances at the Nice Jazz Festival is one that is not as...
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The soundtrack of a filmed performance, this features Louis Armstrong (along with trombonist Trummy Young, clarinetist Joe Darensbourg and singer Jewell Brown) in decent...
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Louis Armstrong's next-to-last recording (his final one was a few months later singing country songs in front of a Nashville rhythm section) has its touching moments. Backed...
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Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller only worked together twice, briefly in 1925 in Erskine Tate's band and four years later in the New York revue Connie's Hot Chocolates. But...
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A hodge-podge sampler, it includes some big-band remakes of Armstrong's earlier recordings, a few later All-Stars items and four numbers recorded with Sidney Bechet in 1940....
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Before his appearance at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival, Louis Armstrong learned that the promoters planned to shunt aside his regular band in favor of a group of his...
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This superior double album contains his final big-band swing recordings (and two songs from 1956), along with all of his Victor small-group sides (which led to the formation...
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An unusual set with Louis Armstrong singing a variety of popular standards in a relaxed and easy-going manner, he is backed by the Oscar Peterson trio and drummer Louis...
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Beautiful 1930-1932 sessions. Portrait label didn't last long, but put out some great stuff while it was active, both old and new. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music...
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This is the first domestic volume on CD of Armstrong's swing-era recordings for Decca in chronological order. Joined by the musical, but by then somewhat anonymous, Luis...
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In 1999, MCA International released Satchmo Sings/Satchmo Serenades, which contained two complete albums -- Satchmo Sings (originally released on Decca) and Satchmo...
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Satchmo Serenades was originally comprised of sessions recorded between 1949 and 1951; the Verve By Request CD reissue in 2000 expands the album by ten tracks, all recorded...
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This is a reasonable attempt to give an overview of his Verve period. It's impossible to do it accurately, though. 15 selections with Russ Garcia (tpt). ~ Ron Wynn, All...
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Louis Armstrong was always a welcome guest on The Ed Sullivan Show, where his bright renditions of Dixieland tunes and pop songs were consistent crowd pleasers. This CD has...
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Vol. 2 : Armstrong the Composer. These recordings range from a take of "Old Man Mose" recorded in 1935 to a version of "Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train" recorded with Sy...
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There are literally hundreds of Armstrong records available but he place to start, for reasons of both history and shear enjoyment, is the Columbia trilogy of collected Hot...
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To say that the performances on this CD (plus the ones on volumes two through four) are classic would be an extreme understatement. With these first 16 recordings by Louis...
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This one covers '26-'27. One can hear the combos jelling--Johnny Dodds is very good on this one--but Pops is still the trumpeter from another...
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It can easily be argued that Louis Armstrong was at his most advanced during the 1928 recordings that featured him with the Savoy Ballroom Five. Constantly challenged by the...
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By 1929, Louis Armstrong had switched from New Orleans jazz to fronting a variety of larger orchestras, widening his repertoire to include pop tunes but always leaving room...
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Helmed by legendary producer Bob Thiele, this 1968 recording ushered Louis Armstrong into his later days as a pop vocalist. Here, the trumpet that drove Armstrong's early...
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The title cut and "Cabaret" from this mostly vocal session were big hits, but most of the other selections are only passable due to his charm. There is very little trumpet...
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Armstrong's All-Stars, giving one a very good idea of the type of performance the great trumpeter/vocalist put on every night. Some dated comedy aside, Satch is in exciting...
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This Mobile Fidelity audiophile CD reissues an earlier Storyville LP, adding three previously unreleased selections: pianist Billy Kyle's feature on "When I Grow Too Old to...
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Though lacking in annotation, this 22-track British CD is drawn from Louis Armstrong's big-band recordings for Decca Records in the late 1930s and early 1940s. While not as...
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Two of the selections ("Jeepers Creepers" and "Tiger Rag") on this CD are taken from a radio broadcast that matched Louis Armstrong in 1938 with the great pianist Fats...
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This nearly 40-year-old LP also puts the emphasis on Louis Armstrong's singing, and even he cannot do much with songs like "I Laughed at Love," "Takes Two to Tango" and...
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It seems that record labels will go to extremes to release "new" recordings by jazz legends who aren't around to contest them. The two-CD compilation The Katanga Concert,...
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A selection of '40s recordings catching Pops in a variety of settings. The opening four tracks come from Armstrong's final session with his big band for Victor, followed by...
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Released along with an onslaught of compilations in 2000, ostensibly marking Louis Armstrong's 100th birthday (he was actually born in 1801), this lovingly assembled...
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Live recordings from 1962 and 1965 make up this 11-track budget disc. After a grainy start with the title cut, the sound cleans up for "Indiana," "After You've Gone," "When...
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This nine-song CD (up one from the eight-song LP version issued by Decca in the early '60s) is an excellent studio representation of Louis Armstrong & the All-Stars at work...
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Covering over 50 years of Louis Armstrong's career, this three-CD set from the Verve archives starts in the juke joints and speakeasies of the '20s and ends up documenting...
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As Louis Armstrong traversed the globe, bringing jazz to every corner of it, live recordings became the norm. This reissue brings together 1955 concert recordings with the...
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During the last two decades of Louis Armstrong's life, his repertoire and arrangements were fairly set and, since his death in 1971, many live CDs such as this one have...
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This four-CD set brings together all the recordings made during the period of the Hot Five and Hot Sevens along with all the attendant recordings that Armstrong was involved...
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The 11 vintage selections reissued on this 1997 CD (less than 33 minutes of music) are taken straight from a budget LP of two decades earlier. The music (seven numbers by...
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Presented here is a nice cross-section of the recordings Satchmo made for RCA Victor over the years, running a time frame from the early 1930s to 1970s, the last of which,...
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While the title is mere hyperbole, this is a nice collection of live and studio renditions of Satchmo's best known tunes. While these aren't the "hit" or definitive...
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Recorded in one marathon session in Hollywood's Capitol Records Tower, these two albums were joined together in a double-CD set in 1999, with new notes, repros of the...
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One of a handful of absolutely essential jazz collections, and at a bargain price too. With this four-disc set of Armstrong's bedrock Hot Fives & Sevens sides, JSP throws...
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Falling in Love With Louis Armstrong is part of RCA's mid-line Falling in Love With series, which focuses on romantic highlights from classic big-band, swing, and jazz...
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While MCA continues to release incomplete samplers of his Decca recordings, the European Classics series has reissued the great trumpeter's performances the best possible...
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This 15-song compilation of performances emphasizes Armstrong's vocals and romantic material. Although the material spans 1929 to 1961, because of what Columbia has access...
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This 16-track collection distills a four-disc set down to one, spotlighting this generally unsung period of Armstrong's career. This period, basically 1932-1947, finds him...
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This budget collection brings together ten live performances from the '50s of Satchmo running through some of his best-loved tunes. Nice readings of "Mack the Knife," "When...
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Of less importance than the concurrent release of The Best of Louis Armstrong: The Hot Five and Seven Recordings is Satch Blows the Blues, since it only distills the great...
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The most important musician of the century past has had a trumpet-load of retrospectives appear since the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2001, and few are more brisk,...
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In conjunction with the release of Ken Burns' ten-part, 19-hour epic PBS documentary Jazz, Columbia issued 22 single-disc compilations devoted to jazz's most significant...
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This obscure set by Louis Armstrong has its strange appeal. The great trumpeter/vocalist performs a dozen songs, all of which have "heaven" or "angel" in their title or...
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This 1965 Paris concert by Louis Armstrong is not all that different in content from many of his live dates recorded during the last 15 years of his life. His all-stars had...
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Though few listeners think of Louis Armstrong (or even Armstrong the jazz vocalist) as a lover man, his rocks-and-gravel voice perfectly expressed the wonder and bemusement...
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Although this CD reissue by Louis Armstrong is promoted as a jazz release, the jazz content of the music within this compilation of religious songs is rather minimal. The...
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Louis Armstrong's Satchmo: A Musical Autobiography was recorded as an oral memoir (with overdubbed background piano by Billy Kyle) combined with re-creations of many of his...
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Louis Armstrong & Friends' Christmas Collection is a lot of fun. Along with Satchmo, the represented artists on this 14-song collection include Dinah Washington, Mel Tormé,...
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Louis Armstrong and His Friends isn't among the trumpeter/singer's essential releases, but it is certainly interesting, enjoyable, and historically important. Recorded in...
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One of many in the Bluebird's Best series to present ancient classics from the 20th century's seminal jazz and big-band artists, this recording presents a beautiful portrait...
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Louis Armstrong's later work in the '30s, '40s, and beyond has usually taken a critical backseat to his earlier material recorded with the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens in the...
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This three-CD set compiles various recordings by three of the most famous names in swing jazz: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman. While the front cover...
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Even at two discs and 37 tracks, it's difficult to say that this set contains everything that is truly essential from Louis Armstrong's monumental five-decade career. It...
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The Louis Armstrong volume in Columbia's Jazz Moods: Hot series isn't a career overview, but it benefits from the narrowed focus. It concentrates on a very specific period...
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Memorable swing versions of "St. Louis Blues" and "Tiger Rag" were recorded during a European tour (1934), plus Armstrong with the Fats Waller sextet (1938). ~ Bruce Boyd...
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The Definitive Collection devoted to Louis Armstrong takes a reverse chronological view of the pop giant's career, a format that functions surprisingly well considering its...
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