Format Details: 7CD + DVD Box Set
Release Date: 14 March 2011
Label: Storyville Records
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 8
Barcode: 717101860920
Genres: Jazz  Early Jazz  
Format Details: 7CD + DVD Box Set
Release Date: 14 March 2011
Label: Storyville Records
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 8
Barcode: 717101860920
Genres: Jazz  Early Jazz  
Description
This box makes Louis Armstrong's All Stars period come alive again with a variety of tracks spanning the years 1947 to 1967. Surrounded by top-flight musicians such as Earl "Fatha" Hines, Jack Teagarden, Sid Catlett, Trummy Young, Milt Hinton, Edmond Hall and Tyree Glenn, you'll hear Armstrong in live settings ranging from nightclubs in New York and Chicago to concerts in Denmark and France to one-nighters in small-towns such as Ephrata, Pennsylvania, putting on a wonderful show wherever he went. In addition to containing many previously unreleased tracks, there is also a DVD capturing some of Armstrong's finest moments from television in the 1950s, including meetings with Dizzy Gillespie, Jack Teagarden and Hoagy Carmichael. So let the old myths die and rejoice in the timeless, swinging and ceaselessly entertaining music of Louis Armstrong and His All Stars. Oh yeah!
Tracklisting
Carsten Dahl, Reuben Rogers & Gregory Hutchinson
Karsten Vogel
Rosalia De Souza Quarteto 55
Duke Ellington
Lennart Ginman, Thomas Blachman & Carsten Dahl
Doug Raney Quartet
Sophisticated Ladies
Michel Petrucciani Trio
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong