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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Wild Man Blues
2. Weary Blues
3. Georgia Bo-Bo
4. Shanghai Shuffle
5. I'm in the Mood For Love
6. Old Man Mose
7. Skeleton in the Closet, The
8. She's the Daughter of a Planter From Havana
9. Jubilee
10. Struttin' With Some Barbecue
11. Jeepers Creepers
12. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
13. Wolverine Blues
14. Perdido Street Blues
15. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
16. I Never Knew
17. I Wonder
18. Muskrat Ramble
19. Black and Blue
DISC 2:
1. Song Is Ended, The - (with The Mills Brothers)
2. You Won't Be Satisfied - (with Ella Fitzgerald)
3. You Can't Lose a Broken Heart - (with Billie Holiday)
4. You Rascal You - (with Louis Jordan)
5. Gone Fishin' - (with Bing Crosby)
6. That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
7. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
8. La Vie en Rose
9. Some Day
10. Baby, It's Cold Outside
11. Your Cheatin' Heart
12. Gypsy, The
13. Tin Roof Blues
14. Sometime I Feel Like a Motherless Child
15. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
16. Memories of You
17. King of the Zulus
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Louis Armstrong (vocal, trumpet, cornet); Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Velma Middleton (vocals); Louis Jordan (vocals, alto saxophone); Trummy Young (vocals, trombone); Sidney Bechet (soprano saxophone); Barney Bigard (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Don Redman, Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone); Howard Scott, Elmer Chambers, Leonard Davis, Bernie Privin (trumpet); Kid Ory, Jimmy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden (trombone); Buster Bailey, Johnny Dodd (clarinet); Bud Scott, Johnny St. Cyr, Charlie Dixon (banjo); Earl Hines, Lil Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Lewis Russell, Bernie Leighton (piano); Lawrence Lucie (guitar); Pops Foster, Jim Taft, Wellman Braud (bass); Baby Dodds, Zutty Singleton, Sid Catlett, Cozy Cole (drums).
Mills Brothers: Harry Mills, Herbert Mills, Donald Mills, John Mills, Sr.
Recorded between 1924 and 1958. Includes liner notes by Loren Schoenberg.
Digitally remastered by Erick Labson (MCA Music Media Studios).
This collection is an effective--though incomplete-- introduction to the immensely varied phases of Louis Armstrong's career. The two-disc set opens with a few early non-Decca tracks, which although good, are seemingly chosen at random. Next up is a generous helping of material from the late '30s and early '40s (featuring a similar line-up to that of Decca's POCKETFUL OF DREAMS) that includes some of Satchmo's best and most sensitive playing.
The collection also includes a number of Armstrong collaborations with Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Jordan, Billie Holiday, and others. Though some tracks may seem excessively sentimental, they are all entertaining and serve as a testament to Armstrong's supreme musicality and versatility. Also included are several tracks with Louis's All-Stars, his fantastic later band, which effectively show the rootsier of the Armstrong. Especially charming is a hilarious live duet with vocalist Velma Middleton on "Baby it's Cold Outside."
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