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| The Essential Louis |
| Louis Armstrong |
első megjelenés éve: 2008
65 perc |
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| (2008)
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| 2.876 Ft
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| 1. | When It's Sleepy Time Down South
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| 2. | Indiana
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| 3. | Give Me A Kiss To Build A Dream On
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| 4. | The Bucket&
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| 5. | Mack The Knife
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| 6. | Ole Miss
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| 7. | C'Est Si Bon
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| 8. | La Vie En Rose
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| 9. | The Faithful Hussar
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| 10. | The Gypsy
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| 11. | Basin Street Blues
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| 12. | Tiger Rag
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| 13. | Struttin' With Some Barbecue
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| 14. | Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
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| 15. | When The Saints Go Marching In
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Jazz
Equal parts singer, soloist and personality, Louis Armstrong is the quintessential jazz frontman. The ESSENTIAL LOUIS features superlative in-concert performances of Satchmo's most celebrated songs and is the perfect introduction to this legendary figure.
It's difficult to believe that Louis died around thirty years ago. Hardly a day passes when his voice is not featured on a TV ad or is heard as part of some knowing
film soundtrack. His gravelly tones have become part of everyone's lives. Not just those who were lucky enough to be around when he was playing world-wide concerts with his fabulous All-Stars but even those whose association has been formed by those ultra-frequent TV and film screenings. Meanwhile, Louis' recordings have continued to sell by bucketful. How many other entertainers who notched their first Top 10 hit in 1926 also had a UK Top Five entry in 1994? His music virtually spanned the last century and undoubtedly will form part of the soundtrack to the new millennium.
Not that anyone would have placed bets on Louis becoming a star of any kind right back at the beginning. Born in an unsavoury area of New Orleans known as Back o' Town, on a day when two men killed each other not far from his family's front door,
he was sent to the Coloured Waifs Home while still a teenager, after firing a pistol to celebrate New Year's Eve. But this incarceration changed his life. He became part of the Home's band, becoming such an accomplished cornetist that he was eventually
signed to King Oliver's Band, making musical history when the band played Chicago's top venues during the early ‘20s. Stints with leading big bands, such as those led by Fletcher Henderson and Les Hite, provided Louis with a platform during the Swing Era, but his success playing with a small unit at a much hailed New York Hall Concert in May, 1947, led him to form the All-Stars, Louis claiming that the format provided him with "more room to move around". During the early ‘40s,
the man known as Satchmo had experienced something of a slump in his recording
career. After providing almost 60 hits between 1926 and 1941, his records disappeared from the charts during the war-years and beyond. But the creation of the All-Stars coincided with a return to record-selling status.
Revered by his fellow musicians and much loved by the world at large, Louis became a kind of musical ambassador, forever touring, forever uniting people of different nations and creeds, his obvious warmth and joy of performing reaching out from beyond the footlights to capture both minds and hearts. Once he stepped off a ferry in the Congo, the rival forces of Joseph Mobotu and those loyal to Patrice Lumumba combined to provide him with an escort, a banner reading "The black man from overseas is at home in the Congo".
Well before The Beatles, Louis Armstrong proved that, all you need is love. And, in his case, a healthy helping of incredible talent.
The music heard on this atmospheric concert recording, reflects that very talent right from the opening strains of When It's Sleepy Time Down South, which Louis first recorded with Luis Russell's band back in 1941. Delivered in tender manner it comes with a modicum of scat , perhaps reminding listeners that Armstrong was the inventor of the scat vocal. Often employed as a kind of calling card at All-Stars concerts, the song provides the perfect opportunity for Louis to bid his audience good evening. Indiana, which invariably followed (and sometimes preceded) When It's Sleepy Time Down South as an instrumental curtain-raiser, features an array of typical, barnstorming Louis licks, as infectious as ever, while the underrated pianist Billy Kyle's solo is a mild gem, offering both subtlety and heat. A Kiss To Build A Dream On acts as a link with Louis extensive Hollywood career, a terrific song from the 1951 film The Strip, and one that provided Satchmo with a US Top 20 hit.
An intro to Bucket's Got A Hole In It allows Louis'effervescent humour to surface. Trummy Young features both on vocal and trombone on this one, while Joe Darensbourg's clarinet also has plenty of room to move. Mack The Knife, which follows, is Louis' infectious hit reworking of a theme from Kurt Weill and Bertholt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, a show that premiered in Berlin during 1928
Louis's hits often stemmed from the many different countries in which he toured. The Faithful Hussar is something that he picked up in Germany, while La Vie En Rose,
long associated with France's most famous singer, Edith Piaf, became a Top 30 success for Louis during 1950,C'est Si Bon, as Louis is heard to explain, being housed on the reverse side of that hit single..
The Gypsy, which failed to chart highly nevertherless provides an intriguing Louis-link. A British song, it was penned by Billy Reid, partner to Dorothy Squires, the singer who later became the wife of one-time 007 actor Roger Moore. And Louis also had a 007 connection, performing John Barry and Hal David's closing theme to On Her Majesty's Secret Service, featuring one of Moore's Bond predecessors, George Lazenby.
In truth though, Louis was never happier than playing or singing material that had
New Orleans connections - titles like Ole Miss, along with Tiger Rag, Basin Street Blues and Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans. The All-Stars always approached Tiger Rag in ferocious, too-fast-for-comfort mode, echoing the approach of The Original Dixieland Band, who first popularised the tune in 1918. But Basin Street, one of W.C.Handy's classic blues, is tackled with more care and warmth, as is Do You Know What It Means, a song for which Louis always had a special regard, a reminder not only of his hometown but also of Billie Holiday who sang it in New Orleans, a film in which both she and Armstrong appeared in 1947. Add Struttin' With Some Barbecue, which Louis first recorded in Chicago with his Hot Seven in 1927 and re-recorded with Luis Russell during the late 30s, plus When The Saints Go Marching In, a perennial crowd-pleasing closer, and it's obvious that what you now have in your hands is an unbeatable audio document of the All-Stars in live performance.
As Louis himself might have concluded.
"Oooh..yeahhhhh."
---Fred Dellar, Mojo magazine |
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