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| The Golden Years of Louis Armstrong |
| Louis Armstrong |
első megjelenés éve: 2007
180 perc |
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| (2008)
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3 x CD |
| 3.500 Ft
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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | When It's Sleepy Time Down South
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| 2. | Perdido Street Blues
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| 3. | Blues (Mamie's Blues)
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| 4. | You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
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| 5. | Mahogany Hall Stomp
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| 6. | Ain't Misbehavin'
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| 7. | Back O'Town Blues
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| 8. | If We Never Meet Again
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| 9. | On The Sunny Side Of The Street
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| 10. | Cornet Chop Suey
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| 11. | Muskrat Ramble
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| 12. | Skid-Dat-De-Dat
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| 13. | Willie The Weeper
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| 14. | Wild Man Blues
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| 15. | Potato Head Blues
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| 16. | Struttin' With Some Barbecue
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| 17. | Savoy Blues
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| 18. | West End Blues
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| 19. | Beau Koo Jack
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| 20. | Rockin' Chair
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | When The Saints Go Marchind In
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| 1. | Wolverine Blues
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| 2. | Marie
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| 3. | That Lucky Old Sun
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| 4. | Heebie Jeebies
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| 5. | Melancholy Blues
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| 6. | Once In A While
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| 7. | Basin Street Blues
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| 8. | You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
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| 9. | Tight Like This
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| 10. | Dallas Blues
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| 11. | Thanks A Million
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| 12. | Lyin' To Myself
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| 13. | Thankful
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| 14. | Red Nose
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| 15. | The Peanut Vendor
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| 16. | You're Lucky To Me
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| 17. | St. James' Infirmary
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| 18. | You Rascal, You
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| 19. | Lazy River
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| 20. | I Ain't Got Nobody
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| 3. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Wolverine Blues
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| 2. | St Louis Blues
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| 3. | Sweethearts On Parade
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| 4. | Down In Honky Tonk Town
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| 5. | Coal Cart Blues
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| 6. | Black And Blue
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| 7. | Save It, Pretty Mama
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| 8. | Jack Armstrong Blues
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| 9. | Jazz Lips
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| 10. | Big Butter And Egg Man
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| 11. | Alligator Crawl
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| 12. | Weary Blues
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| 13. | I'm Not Rough
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| 14. | Hotter Than That
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| 15. | Skip The Gutter
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| 16. | Weather Bird
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| 17. | Muggles
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| 18. | Swing That Music
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| 19. | I Come From A Musical Family
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| 20. | Ev'ntide
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Jazz
A greatly-loved entertainer, Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong enjoyed huge respect as a jazzman as well as having pop vocal hits. This collection features 60 classic tracks from the 1940s.
When, in the summer of 1970, a South African newspaper polled its readers to see if they could name the members of the recent Apollo 11 moon mission, one young girl from Cape Town identified the first man to tread the lunar landscape as not Neil but Louis Armstrong! That was one of the few accomplishments the musical legend could not call his own, but it illustrated just how widespread his fame and influence had become.
And though he'd pass away the following year, the man who learned to play when serving time at a young offender's institute in his native New Orleans had written his name large in the history books during his seven decades of life as singer, trumpeter, bandleader, all-round showman and ambassador for his country's music and culture. Bing Crosby pronounced him "The beginning and end of music in America," while Billy Eckstine insisted that "Everybody singing got something from him."
An early influence in Armstrong's life was Joe 'King' Oliver, who recommended the 18 year-old Louis take his place in the band of Kid Ory when he left their home city to find his fortune. Armstrong would eventually follow his mentor to Chicago in 1922, and much of his legendary work would be cut there.
But pianist Lil Hardin (who became the second of four Mrs Armstrongs) soon persuaded him to quit Oliver's band and head for New York, where he spent a year with Fletcher Henderson's orchestra before returning to Chicago and forming the influential Hot Five.
This group featured Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds and Johnny St Cyr alongside Armstrong and his wife. 'Cornet Chop Suey', 'Struttin' With Some Barbecue', 'Hotter Than That' and 'West End Blues' are particularly fine examples of their work, the last-named's lengthy unaccompanied introduction showing the way forward for jazz with its invention of new melody-lines rather than paraphrasing existing ones. 'Big Butter And Egg Man' (with vocals from May Alix) and 'Heebie Jeebies', the latter memorable for Louis's trademark scat singing, are also noteworthy. (Scat, a rhythmic, wordless vocal style modelled on the percussive punch of brass, was allegedly invented when he dropped a lyric sheet in the studio and was forced to improvise on the spot.)
He occasionally augmented the band to become the Hot Seven, Pete Briggs (tuba), Baby Dodds (drums) and John Thomas (trombone, replacing Ory) the extra members. This larger ensemble is featured on such tracks as 'Wild Man Blues' and 'Potato Head Blues'. 'West End Blues' from the Savoy Ballroom Five featuring pianist Earl Hines, which cut 18 sides in 1928, completes the picture of a fertile period in which Armstrong arguably made one of the biggest contributions to the evolution of jazz than any single musician.
The dynamics he introduced into the music, with stop-time choruses and other devices, liberated the soloists and broke established conventions: listen to 'West End Blues' and you'll hear a blueprint for popular music in the decades that followed. He'd also diversify, however, by cutting a series of ballads in late 1930 with a band including a young Lionel Hampton: one example, 'Sweethearts On Parade', was a song by dance-band leader Guy Lombardo, whom Armstrong admired, and this pointed the way forward into mass-market music.
Yet as he left the field of pure jazz and grew into the role of an all-round entertainer, with appearances in feature films and on Broadway, younger black artists would be unhappy with what they saw as his 'Uncle Tom' attitudes. His signature tune 'When It's Sleepy Time Down South', which portrayed happy black folk in a mythical American South, arguably didn't help his case. Evidence to the contrary would come after the war, however, in Armstrong's public attacks against school segregation.
Most historians agree it was his fatherless childhood plus run-ins with the law when a youth that led to Louis craving the widest possible public acceptance - which he duly received. Nor did his landmark Hot Five/Hot Seven work make him a rich man. "We weren't paid no money," he later revealed, "just was glad to play." Who, then, could blame him for seeking more lucrative outlets for his many talents?
In 1929 Armstrong recorded the first of a number of songs by singer/composer Hoagy Carmichael, the pair having met in Chicago back in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band days. They teamed up in person on that year's recording of 'Rockin' Chair', which we feature here along with a later take and a number of other Carmichael compositions. By the 1930s Louis, widely and affectionately known as Satchmo (satchel mouth) or Pops, had gravitated to the big-band world, where he would spend his time until economics dictated otherwise.
Having made his reputation as an instrumentalist, Louis Armstrong then proceeded to hit the American musical mainstream - but as a vocalist. The song credited with this feat was Fats Waller's 'Ain't Misbehavin'', which he first cut in 1929 while starring in the popular all-black musical revue Hot Chocolates.
We present a reprise of that song from a concert at New York's Town Hall in 1947 that saw Satchmo leading a group of musicians billed as his All-Stars and including Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard and Earl Hines. After the concert proved a huge success he'd tour and record with an All-Stars comprising lesser-known but still exceptional players for his remaining years, most notably a 45-date African tour sponsored by the US Government and Pepsi.
The 1950s and 1960s found him collaborating with fellow musical greats such as Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and fellow scat exponent Ella Fitzgerald. We feature an early joint effort with Ella in 'Coal Cart Blues', recorded in 1940 between her stint fronting Chick Webb's band and the beginning of her solo career.
Louis Armstrong may not have walked on the moon, but he managed to find his way back into UK chart orbit in 1994 with 'We Have All The Time In The World' - just one of several posthumous hits bought, in the main, by a generation that had never experienced him in person. His music continues to reverberate from Chicago to Cape Town, and this fine set, with offerings from three decades, offers old fans many memories and new converts a fine introduction to his legacy.
Michael Heatley |
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