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The Essential Louis Armstrong (CD)

By: Louis Armstrong (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Essential Louis Armstrong (CD) Album By Louis Armstrong (Artist)
1   Sugar Foot Stomp
2   Cake Walking Babies (From Home)
3   Pickin' On Your Baby
4   Heebie Jeebies
5   Willie The Weeper
6   Potato Head Blues
7   West End Blues
8   Basin Street Blues
9   Beau Koo Jack
10   St. James' Infirmary
11   Tight Like This
12   I Can't Give You Anything But Love
13   Ain't Misbehavin'
14   Black and Blue
15   That Rhythm Man
16   St. Louis Blues
17   Bessie Couldn't Help It
18   I'm Confessin'
 
DISC 2 for The Essential Louis Armstrong (CD) Album By Louis Armstrong (Artist)
1   Memories Of You
2   Shine
3   Walkin' My Baby Back Home
4   Blue Again
5   You Rascal You
6   When It's Sleepytime Down South
7   Lazy River
8   Star Dust
9   Georgia On My Mind
10   Shadrack
11   On the Sunny Side of the Street
12   When The Saints Go Marching In
13   Rockin' Chair
14   Blueberry Hill
15   Mack The Knife
16   Aunt Hagar's Blues
17   Honeysuckle Rose
18   Fine Romance, A
19   What A Wonderful World
 

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Title Note

Personnel: Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet, cornet); Sidney Bechet (soprano saxophone); Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone); Kid Ory (trombone); Fletcher Henderson, Lil Armstrong, Earl Hines (piano); Lionel Hampton (vibraphone, drums); Barrett Deems, Zutty Singleton (drums).

Liner Note Author: Dan Morgenstern.

Recording information: 1925 - 1967.

While Jelly Roll Morton claimed to have "invented" jazz, it was Louis Armstrong who cultivated the form by bringing individual solos (versus group playing) to the forefront. Due to Armstrong, solo improvisation became one of the hallmarks of jazz. Given Armstrong's remarkable trumpet technique and undeniable charisma, it's no wonder that he is considered to be the greatest jazz legend of them all.

This Columbia Records two-disc collection documents Armstong's music from his early years as a member of Fletcher Henderson and Clarence Williams's bands to his swing period in the 1930s, when he fronted his own jazz orchestra. (The latter half of the second disc is dedicated to Armstrong's later recordings during the '40s, '50s, and '60s.) His elegant and highly influential trumpet cadenza on the opening of "West End Blues" is heard here, as well as his timeless rendition of "Heebie Jeebies," which is performed with his incredible Hot Five. THE ESSENTIAL LOUIS ARMSTRONG also presents many of his indelible vocal hits, including "Blueberry Hill," "Honeysuckle Rose," and, of course, the hugely popular "What a Wonderful World."

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