Format Details: 2CD set
Release Date: 01 February 2017
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8436559462549
Genres: Jazz Early Jazz
Description
This release presents, for the first time on a single set, Louis Armstrong's two long out of print 1951 concerts at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. For the first performance, taped on January 30 and originally issued (partially) on Satchmo at Pasadena (Decca DL8041), Louis is backed by the classic All Stars featuring Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, Earl Hines, Arvell Shaw, and Cozy Cole, plus Velma Middleton on vocals for a few songs.
By December 7 of the same year, when the second (and rarest) Pasadena concert took place, the same group was undergoing one of its various transitions, and Hines, Shaw and Cole had moved on. The concert is nevertheless outstanding, with the band focusing on the interaction of Louis with Teagarden and Bigard. It also presents, on the last three tracks, one of the very rare collaborations between Armstrong and the Les Brown orchestra.
As a bonus, Essential Jazz Classics have added a rarely heard Chicago broadcast by the original All Stars taped on July 5, 1951, before the band broke up.
Tracklisting
Various
Various
Tina Brooks Quintet
Nancy Wilson, Cannonball Aderley & George Shearing
Stan Getz
Steve Lacy
Booker Little
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
