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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Copenhagen
2. Shanghai Shuffle
3. Stomp Off, Let's Go
4. Drop That Sack
5. Melancholy
6. I'm Goin' Huntin'
7. I'm in the Mood For Love
8. On Treasure Island
9. Thanks a Million
10. Ev'ntide
11. Dippermouth Blues
12. Swing That Music
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. On the Sunny Side of the Street
15. Once in a While
16. In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
17. Jubilee
18. When the Saints Go Marching In
19. Shadrack
20. Ain't Misbehavin'
21. Jeepers Creepers
DISC 2:
1. Rockin' Chair
2. West End Blues
3. Savoy Blues
4. Hear Me Talkin' to Ya
5. I'm Confessin'
6. You're a Lucky Guy
7. Wolverine Blues
8. Sweethearts on Parade
9. Perdido Street Blues
10. 2:19 Blues
11. Coal Cart Blues
12. Groovin'
13. Royal Garden Blues
14. Mahogany Hall Stomp
15. Blueberry Hill
16. You Can't Lose a Broken Heart
17. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
18. Panama
19. New Orleans Function: Flee As A Bird / Oh, Didn't He Ramble
20. You Rascal You
21. My Monday Date
DISC 3:
1. Kiss to Build a Dream On, A
2. It's All in the Game
3. Someday You'll Be Sorry
4. Basin Street Blues
5. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
6. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
7. Weary Blues
8. Wild Man Blues
9. Dippermouth Blues
10. Dear Old Southland
11. Stompin' at the Savoy
12. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
13. Sweet Lorraine
14. Hello Dolly
15. What a Wonderful World
16. Cabaret
17. Dream a Little Dream of Me
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet, cornet); Don Redman (vocals, alto saxophone, clarinet); Louis Jordan (vocals, alto saxophone); Jack Teagarden (vocals, trombone); Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Buster Bailey, Sidney Bechet (soprano saxophone, clarinet); Jimmy Dorsey (alto saxophone, clarinet); Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Barney Bigard, Dexter Gordon (tenor saxophone); Henry "Red" Allen (trumpet); J.C. Higginbotham, Kid Ory (trombone); Johnny Dodds (clarinet); Fletcher Henderson, Lil Armstrong, Earl Hines, Oscar Peterson (piano); Herb Ellis (guitar); Pops Foster, Ray Brown (bass); Kaiser Marshall, Baby Dodds, Ray McKinley, Sid Catlett, Cozy Cole, Louis Bellson (drums).
Producers include: Milt Gabler, Norman Granz, Michael Kapp, Bob Thiele.
Compilation producer: Bryan Koniarz.
Recorded between October 1924 and July 1968. Includes liner notes by Alun Morgan.
Digitally remastered by Kevin Reeves (Universal Mastering Studios-East).
Although you can't really assemble the ultimate Armstrong collection if you don't have the rights to the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of the late 1920s, there's plenty of Louis Armstrong here, creatively assembled and covering the span of his lengthy and immeasurably influential career. Disc One begins with recordings cut with various leaders, including Fletcher Henderson. It then jumps from 1927 to 1935, when Armstrong was already well established as the leader of his own orchestra, which varied in size from record date to record date. There are also scattered cuts involving the Mills Brothers, Bing Crosby and the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra.
Disc Two includes material from 1949 through 1951, including numerous small group sessions with musicians like Sidney Bechet and Zutty Singleton, a vocal duet with Louis Jordan on "You Rascal, You" and, from 1950 and '51, Louis Armstrong And The All Stars, featuring Barney Bigard, Earl Hines, Arvell Shaw, and Cozy Cole. Disc Three wraps things up with "Hello Dolly" and "What a Wonderful World," but not before offering more All Stars, some orchestral numbers, and a couple of cuts with Oscar Peterson's quartet.
Industry Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - ...Each side of the man is represented....proving that 'quality' Louis doesn't start and finish with those oft-lauded Hot Fives or Hot Sevens periods...
Q (03/01/2001)
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