Over the course of his long and illustrious career Louis Armstrong visited Scandinavia on no less than nine occasions to both tour and record. Amongst the wealth of fabulous recordings he produced on the visits are six tracks that are said to be the world’s first live jazz recordings, recorded in Denmark and Sweden during the 1930s. These and many other recordings, some previously unreleased, have been meticulously restored for this 4 CD Armstrong collectors' set. Each CD is over 70 minutes of music and is accompanied by a booklet including many unique photographs and comprehensive liner notes from renowned Armstrong authority, Gosta Hagglof.
7 Intro (The All Stars Introduced By Lucille Armstrong)
8 When It's Sleepy Time Down South
9 A Kiss to Build a Dream on
10 When It's Sleepy Time Down South
11 When It's Sleepy Time Down South
12 Indiana
13 I Get Ideas
14 Tenderly / You'll Never Walk Alone
15 The Faithful Husar
16 Old Man River
17 Mack the Knife
18 After You've Gone
19 Ole Misstotal Time 75.06
- Disc 4 -
1 Basin Street Blues
2 Tiger Rag (Plusfour Encores)
3 Now You Has Jazz
4 Christopher Columbus
5 Black and Blue/Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
6 The Bucket's Got a Hole in It
7 Kokomo
8 Struttin' with Some Barbecue
9 Royal Garden Blues
10 When the Saints Go Marchin' in
11 Mack the Knife
12 Back O'Town Blues
13 Ole Miss
14 St James Infirmary
15 Cabaret
16 You'll Never Walk Alone
Over the course of his long and illustrious career Louis Armstrong visited Scandinavia on no less than nine occasions to both tour and record. Amongst the wealth of fabulous recordings he produced on the visits are six tracks that are said to be the world’s first live jazz recordings, recorded in Denmark and Sweden during the 1930s. These and many other recordings, some previously unreleased, have been meticulously restored for this 4 CD Armstrong collectors' set. Each CD is over 70 minutes of music and is accompanied by a booklet including many unique photographs and comprehensive liner notes from renowned Armstrong authority, Gosta Hagglof.
