Showing posts with label Louis Armstrong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louis Armstrong. Show all posts

VA - Membran Music's Jazz Ballads Series Vol. 16-20 (10 CD, 2004) [FLAC + 320]

 

A CD sets with the most beautiful ballads in the history of jazz.
Lyrical, imaginative, sensuous and melodic jewels from the art of music.

Precisely for those people who have maintained their taste for lasting musical values.

Jazz in its most gentle form.

Irrestible...


Jazz Ballads 16: Charlie Parker
Jazz Ballads 17: Tenor Giants
Jazz Ballads 18: Art Tatum
Jazz Ballads 19: Louis Armstrong & Jack Teagarden
Jazz Ballads 20: All Stars Jam Sessions






Louis Armstrong - The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings, Vol. 1 - 3 (3 CD, 2003/FLAC)

 

Louis Armstrong compilation of early work, recorded between 12 November 1925 through 23 June 1926. Released 22 April 2003 on Columbia/Legacy label, catalog# 86999, US.


Legacy has seen fit - and rightfully so - to reissue the complete recordings of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Seven as individual volumes instead of just a box set. This is a solid way to go for collectors trying to fill holes. It's also the best way for a beginner, not only with Armstrong's music but that of early-recorded jazz, to become acquainted with the development of improvisation in the music. Volume 1 concentrates on the Hot Five material from 1925 and 1926. The first band included Armstrong, Kid Ory on trombone, Johnny Dodds on clarinet, pianist Lil Hardin, and banjo boss Johnny St. Cyr. These 20 recordings were made for the Okeh label. The blues model on which all of these tunes were based is extrapolated upon and remade in the image of first the ensemble and then in the image of the soloist. From "My Heart" and the amazing "Oriental Strut" to "Lonesome Blues," to "Come Back Sweet Papa," to the introduction of scat singing in Lil Hardin's "Skid-Dat-De Dat," the exuberance and professionalism just drip from these tunes. But notions of harmonic invention are also present, places where the soloist slips outside the changes and moves toward reaching a musical unity with the ensemble by whatever means necessary as long as it swung. The sound here is as good as it gets for the time, and after one or two listens, the hiss is barely recognizable. What's important is the fidelity of the music, and it's excellent.






Louis Armstrong - Columbia Jazz Masters Series Volumes 1-7, 1925-31 (1988-1993) [FLAC]


Originally released in LP format in 1961 as the 1st of 4 volumes compiling OKeh singles recorded by Louis Armstrong between 12 November 1925 through 12 December 1928, in chronological order. Columbia acquired OKeh Records in 1926, for its catalog of jazz and blues. Sony purchased Columbia in 1988 acquiring a broad catalog including jazz, pop, rock.







Louis Armstrong – The Hot Fives, Volume I 
Louis Armstrong – The Hot Fives & Hot Sevens, Volume II 
Louis Armstrong – The Hot Fives & Hot Sevens, Volume III 
Louis Armstrong – Volume 4 - Louis Armstrong And Earl Hines 
Louis Armstrong – Volume 5 - Louis In New York
Louis Armstrong – Vol. 6: St. Louis Blues 
Louis Armstrong – Volume 7 - You're Drivin' Me Crazy 









VA - Great Vocalists of Jazz & Entertainment [2004] Vol. 01-05 of 20

 

In this collection by the German "History" label, you get nearly 40 hours of digitally remastered original 78s and 45s. The sound quality is truly amazing - the remastering process removes hiss, clicks & pops; optimizes the equalization, and synthesizes stereo. The forty discs in this set are grouped into twenty 2-disc volumes which are dedicated to a vocalist or pair or vocalists.




Volume 01. Frank Sinatra — I’ll Be Seeing You
Volume 02. Nat King Cole — It’s Only A Paper Moon
Volume 03. Perry Como — With A Song In My Heart
Volume 04. Bing Crosby — My Melancholy Baby
Volume 05. Louis Armstrong / Cab Calloway — Long Long Journey



VA – L'Integrale Jazz (10 CD, 2010)

 
Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Glenn Miller, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Sarah Vaughan, Sidney Bechet, Bessie Smith and many more...




 

Verve Jazz Masters series Vol. 21-30

 
 Jazz Masters is a series of mainly single artist compilations released by Polygram/Verve between 1994 and 1996. The compilations collect material that was originally released on Verve or on one of the labels that became part of the Polygram group. The 20th and 60th releases in the series were various artist collections.


VJM 21 - George Benson
VJM 22 - Billy Eckstine
VJM 23 - Gil Evans
VJM 24 - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
VJM 25 - Stan Getz & Dizzy Gillespie
VJM 26 - Lionel Hampton & Oscar Peterson
VJM 27 - Roland Kirk
VJM 28 - Charlie Parker Plays Standards
VJM 29 - Jimmy Smith
VJM 30 - Lester Young

 

Verve Jazz Masters series Vol. 1-10

 

Jazz Masters is a series of mainly single artist compilations released by Polygram/Verve between 1994 and 1996. The compilations collect material that was originally released on Verve or on one of the labels that became part of the Polygram group. The 20th and 60th releases in the series were various artist collections.

VJM 1 - Louis Armstrong
VJM 2 - Count Basie
VJM 3 - Chick Corea
VJM 4 - Duke Ellington
VJM 5 - Bill Evans
VJM 6 - Ella Fitzgerald
VJM 7 - Erroll Garner
VJM 8 - Stan Getz
VJM 9 - Astrud Gilberto
VJM 10 - Dizzy Gillespie

Louis Armstrong - Jazz Tribune Vol. 20, 43 & 54 (6 CD/FLAC)

 

Jazz Tribune was french series entity for jazz & swing releases from RCA.

No. 20, 43 and 54 was dedicated to Satchmo,

Jazz Tribune 20 - Young Louis Armstrong (1930-1933)
Jazz Tribune 43 - The Complete Town Hall Concert (1947)
Jazz Tribune 54 - From the Big Band to the All Stars (1946-1956) 




Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson – Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (1959/2001/FLAC)

 

By 1957, hard bop was firmly established as the "jazz of now," while pianist Oscar Peterson and his ensemble with bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis were making their own distinctive presence felt as a true working band playing standards in the swing tradition. Louis Armstrong was more recognizable to the general public as a singer instead of the pioneering trumpet player he was. But popularity contests being the trend, Armstrong's newer fans wanted to hear him entertain them, so in retrospect it was probably a good move to feature his vocalizing on these tracks with Peterson's band and guest drummer Louie Bellson sitting in. The standard form of Armstrong singing the lead lines, followed by playing his pithy and witty horn solos based on the secondary melody, provides the basis for the format on this charming but predictable recording. What happens frequently is that Armstrong and Peterson play lovely ad lib vocal/piano duets at the outset of many tunes. They are all songs you likely know, with few upbeat numbers or obscure choices. It is, however, the familiarity of songs like the midtempo "Let's Fall in Love," with Armstrong's gravelly scat singing, and his marvelous ability to riff off of the basic songs, that make these offerings endearing. A classic take of "Blues in the Night" is the showstopper, while choosing "Moon Song" is a good, off-the-beaten-path pick as the trumpeter plays two solo choruses, and he leads out on his horn for once during the slightly bouncy, basic blues "I Was Doing All Right." Some extremely slow tunes crop up on occasion, like "How Long Has This Been Going On?," an atypically downtempo take of "Let's Do It," and "You Go to My Head," featuring Peterson's crystalline piano. There are the dependable swingers "Just One of Those Things," "I Get a Kick Out of You," and "Sweet Lorraine," with Peterson at his accompanying best. There's a ramped-up version of the usually downtrodden "Willow Weep for Me" and a duet between Armstrong and Ellis on the sad two-minute ditty "There's No You." All in all, it's difficult to critique or find any real fault with these sessions, though Peterson is subsumed by the presence of Armstrong, who, as Leonard Feather notes, really needs nobody's help. That this was their only collaboration speaks volumes to how interactive and communal the session really was, aside from the fairly precious music.

  • Bass – Ray Brown
  • Drums – Louis Bellson
  • Guitar – Herb Ellis
  • Piano – Oscar Peterson
  • Vocals, Trumpet – Louis Armstrong





A1 That Old Feeling
A2 Let's Fall in Love
A3 I'll Never Be the Same
A4 Blues in the Night
A5 How Long Has This Been Going On
A6 I Was Doing All Right
B1 What's New
B2 Moon Song
B3 Just One of Those Things
B4 There's No You
B5 You Got to My Head
B6 Sweet Lorraine


Louis Armstrong - Original Album Classics (5 CD, 2010/FLAC)

 


Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (1954)
Satch Plays Fats (1955)
Ambassador Satch (1955)
The Great Chicago Concert (1956) CD 1
The Great Chicago Concert (1956) CD 2


 

 

Louis Armstrong - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings [4 CD, 1997.FLAC]

 


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 RCA during two separate times. During 1932-1933, he led an erratic (and under-rehearsed) big band on a series of numbers, but all of the selections have their moments of interest. Although not up to the level of his Hot Five and Seven recordings of five years earlier, these spirited tracks find Armstrong mostly in excellent form both instrumentally and vocally, and the reissue has four alternate takes never released before. Highlights include the two-part "Hits Medley," "That's My Home," "I've Got the World on a String," "There's a Cabin in the Pines," "Hustlin' and Bustlin' for Baby," a unique 1930 collaboration with country singer Jimmie Rodgers, and the two bizarre versions of "Laughin' Louis." The second half of the reissue features Armstrong during 1946-1947, including appearances with the Esquire poll winners (Louis takes a surprisingly modern solo on "Snafu"), the last titles by his big band, a few wonderful combo performances (including the classic "Jack-Armstrong Blues"), and the first songs by Armstrong's All-Stars (co-starring Jack Teagarden); this collection concludes with two unrelated 1956 orchestral tracks. Overall, this is wonderful music, although collectors who already have everything other than the alternates have a right to hesitate.

Louis Armstrong - The Satchmo Era - 1923 - 1947 [20 CD, 2001]

 


Satchmo Era by Louis Armstrong was released Jul 27, 2001 on the Phantom label. THE SATCHMO ERA collects a whopping 400 tracks by jazz legend Louis Armstrong. Over 20 hours of music recorded between 1923 & 1947. Each exclusive picture disc comes in it's own standard jewelcase & all are housed together in a sturdy box. Includes 12 page biography.

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong- The Complete Anthology (6 CD, 2015)

 The voices of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong are among the most personal and beautiful that the history of music has given us, transcending eras, genres and languages. In this wonderful 6-CD box we can find the legacy of this immortal duet including all their key tracks and also some rarities that connoisseurs will surely appreciate. With remastered sound and beautiful cover art, The Complete Anthology is the definitive album of Ella & Louis, which should be on every music collection.