Louis Armstrong – Satchmo Plays King Oliver (Mono) (1960/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:32 minutes | 744 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Audio Fidelity
“Satchmo Plays King Oliver” is one of those titles that audiophiles have known about for years and a favorite at Hi-Fi shows for demonstration. The first cut, “St. James Infimary” is out of this world like many of the other tunes including a great version of “Frankie and Johnny”. This record is Louis’ tribute to the man who helped shape his trumpet style back in New Orleans and whose invitation to join his band in Chicago put him in the spotlight which has shone on him ever since.
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Louis Armstrong – Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong (1966)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 26:39 minutes | 519 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Archive of Folk & Jazz Music
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed “Satchmo”, “Satch”, and “Pops”, was an American trumpeter and vocalist who is among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and different eras in the history of jazz.
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Louis Armstrong – Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy (1954/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 54:34 minutes | 1,64 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
This recording was not only Louis Armstrong’s finest record of the 1950s but one of the truly classic jazz sets. Armstrong and his All-Stars (trombonist Trummy Young, clarinetist Barney Bigard, pianist Billy Kyle, bassist Arvell Shaw, drummer Barrett Deems, and singer Velma Middleton) were clearly inspired by the fresh repertoire, 11 songs written by W.C. Handy. Their nearly nine-minute version of “St. Louis Blues” – with witty vocals, roaring Young trombone, and a couple of long majestic trumpet solos – is arguably the greatest version of the oft-recorded song. Other highlights include “Loveless Love,” “Beale Street Blues,” and a romping version of “Ole Miss Blues.” Essential music for all serious jazz collections. [Some reissues also include rehearsal versions of three songs, Louis Armstrong telling a joke, and a brief George Avakian interview with W.C. Handy.]
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Louis Armstrong – Louis Armstrong & His All Stars (Remastered) (1954/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 40:07 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2xHD – Storyville Records
Louis Armstrong & His All Stars features the seminal group performing live at two different locations in San Francisco, 1954. These recordings capture Louis and his cohorts at the height of their powers during two engagements (broadcast from the Downbeat and Hangover clubs) of the kind that often formed the All-Stars’ nightly round, and are seminal performances in the jazz genre.
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Louis Armstrong – Louis And The Good Book (1958/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:33 minutes | 622 MB | Genre: Jazz, Gospel
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Louis and the Good Book is a 1958 jazz and spirituals album by Louis Armstrong.
Singles included “I’ll String Along with You” / “On My Way (Out on My Traveling Shoes)” 1959, also known as I’m On My Way.
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Louis Armstrong – Hello, Dolly! (1964/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:58 minutes | 807 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues
Louis Armstrong’s commercial resurgence with the song “Hello, Dolly!” — a number one hit that unseated the Beatles’ “Can’t Buy Me Love” from the top spot — came as such a surprise that Kapp Records hastened to produce an album to go along with it. The resulting long-player, appropriately titled Hello, Dolly!, also went to number one and produced a second hit, the inferior “I Still Get Jealous.” As you might predict, almost all of the songs are drawn from Broadway shows, and a couple (a re-recording of “Blueberry Hill”; “A Lot of Livin’ to Do” from Bye Bye Birdie) lend a veneer of hipness to give the album a “1964 touch” without foisting completely inappropriate material on the 60-something Satchmo. Armstrong had one of the most recognizable and personality-laden voices of the 20th century, and although he was past his prime at the time, Hello, Dolly! shows him at his ’60s best. – Greg Adams
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Louis Armstrong – Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll (1960/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:34 minutes | 853 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Audio Fidelity
The stereo version of the album on HDTracks, listed under the alternative title “Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None Of My Jelly Roll”
The tracks “Frankie And Johnny” and “I Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None Of This Jelly Roll” are erroneously mislabelled in the metadata. This is a flaw with the original files and has been left untouched.
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Louis Armstrong – 50 Essentials of Louis Armstrong (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:51:44 minutes | 1,51 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BnF Collection
Louis Armstrong was the first important soloist to emerge in jazz, and he became the most influential musician in the music’s history. As a trumpet virtuoso, his playing, beginning with the 1920s studio recordings made with his Hot Five and Hot Seven ensembles, charted a future for jazz in highly imaginative, emotionally charged improvisation. For this, he is revered by jazz fans. But Armstrong also became an enduring figure in popular music, due to his distinctively phrased bass singing and engaging personality, which were on display in a series of vocal recordings and film roles. This set impressively boils down one of the most brilliant and lengthy careers in music: 50 tracks from six record labels and 42 years.
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Louis Armstrong – Now You Has Jazz (2018)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time – 36:50 minutes | 2,9 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96kHz | Time – 36:50 minutes | 717 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © 2xHD
Whether they called him “Satchmo” or simply the “man with the silver trumpet”, millions of people, from Mongolia to Munich, Milano and Mozambique, recognized the cherubic countenance, gravel voice, and high, rhythmic notes that bought thousands to greet him and hear him wherever he went – the magnetism was, at times, as awesome as his music could be. Louis Armstrong was one of the greatest musicians jazz ever produced, perhaps – and few, if any, will argue against this – the greatest.
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Louis Armstrong – Mack The Knife (2017)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time – 47:03 minutes | 3,71 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:03 minutes | 875 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet | © 2xHD – Storyville Records
This lovingly remastered release sees live performances of Satchmo and his All Stars presented to a whole new generation of listeners. Including the infamous title track along with a warm and rich performance of When It’s Sleepy Time Down South and a lively rendition of Ole Miss, among many other top notch numbers, this is a perfectly balanced Armstrong collection to be treasured.
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Louis Armstrong – Louis Armstrong & His All Stars (2018)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time – 40:07 minutes | 3,16 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96kHz | Time – 40:07 minutes | 777 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © 2xHD
Here are Louis Armstrong and his All Stars at two different locations in San Francisco 1954, doing what they loved and did best: playing Jazz of a quality defying description, and, as Louis would have said “pleasing the people”. These recordings happily capture Louis and his cohorts at the glorious height of their powers during two engagements (broadcast from the Downbeat and Hangover clubs) of the kind that often formed the All-Stars’ nightly round. Seldom, if ever, have Armstrong and his All-Stars been captured in more exultant form. Such performances as this are seminal to Jazz. Like Louis Armstrong, music like this will never come again.
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Louis Armstrong & His All Stars – What A Wonderful Christmas! (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:48 minutes | 386 MB | Genre: Jazz, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Although this Christmas compilation is credited to “Louis Armstrong & Friends,” it’s really more aptly categorized as a various artists anthology, since Armstrong only has six of the fourteen tracks. The disc is filled out with seasonal offerings by Dinah Washington, Mel Torme, Louis Jordan, Lionel Hampton, Peggy Lee, Eartha Kitt, and Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, mostly from the 1950s. It’s pleasant pop-jazz that doesn’t rate among the highlights of any of these talented artists’ careers. But it makes for an above-average Christmas disc, especially on Lionel Hampton’s “Merry Christmas, Baby,” Louis Armstrong’s “Cool Yule,” and Louis Jordan’s “May Everyday Be Christmas,” which celebrate the holiday with more gutsy hipness than the usual Yuletide fare
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Louis Armstrong – Jazzy Christmas In New Orleans! (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 24:51 minutes | 496 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed “Satchmo”, “Satch”, and “Pops”, was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of jazz.
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Ella And Louis Again (1957/2011)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 44:23 minutes | 1,75 GB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Front Cover | © Verve Music / Analogue Productions XVRJ4017D64
Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound from the original analog master tapes to vinyl and PCM. The DSD was sourced from the PCM. George listened to all of the different A/D converters he had before he chose which to use, and he felt the George Massenburg GML 20 bit A/D produced the best and most synergistic sound for the project.
There isn’t much one can say about an album whose title is Ella And Louis Again. The “again” obviously means they’ve already done one album together and beyond that, what can you say about two people like Ella and Louis? I doubt that there’s anyone today who loves music, who doesn’t know Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. The backing, with the Oscar Peterson Trio and Louis Bellson substituting for Buddy Rich, remains, as in the first album, quiet, discreet, swinging.
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Ella and Louis (1956/2011)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 54:16 minutes | 2,14 GB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Front Cover | © Verve Music / Analogue Productions XVRJ4003D64
Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound from the original analog master tapes to vinyl and PCM. The DSD was sourced from the PCM. George listened to all of the different A/D converters he had before he chose which to use, and he felt the George Massenburg GML 20 bit A/D produced the best and most synergistic sound for the project.
The very fact that America’s biggest jazz label called one of their albums quite simply Ella and Louis indicates that we are talking about something very special here. And surely enough has been said – “Satchmo” and the grande dame of jazz certainly need no further introduction. In the ’50s just the mere mention of their forenames was enough to light up the eyes of jazz fans. A glance at the track list reveals that tranquility rules the day: wild stomps and improvised scats will neither be sought nor missed. Of prime importance to the jazz ballad is a feeling of “letting oneself drift” in the inspiration which gushes forth from the minds of genial American songwriters. This is no contest – for the artists all pursue a common goal with extreme sensitiveness. The background combo, made up of first-class musicians and led by Oscar Peterson, performs with great concentration and almost obtrusive unobtrusiveness. Verve’s highly successful producer Norman Granz decided quite deliberately to make the recording in the studio instead of at a live session. And success has verified his judgment, for such vocal jazz knows only gentle tones – but the result is all the more intensive for that.
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