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Louis Armstrong: What a Wonderful World (Rating: 70/100) posted in Music August 13, 09

Major label executives, producers and (quite possibly) Washington insiders envisioned a new direction for Louis Armst...

Louis Armstrong: Heebie Jeebies (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 10, 07

Louis Armstrong Photo by Herb Snitzer “Heebie Jeebies” is a typically rambling Hot Five performanc...

Louis Armstrong: St. Louis Blues (1929) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 21, 08

On Friday the 13th, six weeks after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Louis Armstrong was singing the blues—to be precis...

Fletcher Henderson (with Louis Armstrong): Sugarfoot Stomp (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

Fletcher Henderson’s “Sugarfoot Stomp” is very much an early recorded jazz repertory performance. It is a retitled v...

Louis Armstrong: Mack the Knife (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

"Mack the Knife" is dramatist Bertolt Brecht's grisly answer to Jack the Ripper, a nasty narrative of murderously mut...

Louis Armstrong: Lazy River (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 08, 09

I don't know how "Up A Lazy River" ever made it past a music publishing editor. The melody line is dominated by awkw...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HOAGY CARMICHAEL

Hoagy Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana on November 22, 1899. His given name, Hoagland, derived fr...

Jimmie Rodgers & Louis Armstrong: Blue Yodel #9 (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 08, 08

Can jazz and country music coexist? If these two divergent styles of music ever find a happily-ever-after relationsh...

Louis Armstrong: Chinatown, My Chinatown (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music April 30, 08

Louis Armstrong's path-breaking recordings from the 1920s get most of the attention from jazz experts. But the trump...

Louis Armstrong: This Black Cat Has 9 Lives (Rating: 81/100) posted in Music August 13, 09

Talk about sloganeering. On one of the weirdest straightforward jazz recordings of all time, Louis "Pops" Armstrong ...

Louis Armstrong: The Memphis Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

This pairing of Armstrong’s artistry with Handy’s music seems so obvious that one might question why it took until 19...

Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald: A Fine Romance (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

It's hard to be disappointed when two of the greatest jazz singers in history share the same recording studio. But t...

Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson: Just One of Those Things (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

Peterson’s fleet fingers dance through a short intro leading to Armstrong’s usual laid-back vocal. The casualness of ...

Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines: Weather Bird (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

This remake of the 1923 “Weather Bird Rag” startles by its freewheeling looseness and subtle restraint; the thrilling...

Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong: St. Louis Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

We apologize for joking in our review of Dizzy Gillespie's 1959 cover that W.C. Handy wrote "St. Louis Blues" amidst ...

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Stompin' at the Savoy (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 09, 09

Whatever the contractual agreements were that allowed Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong to record together for Verv...

Louis Armstrong: Some Of These Days (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 02, 09

With his classic big band recording of “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love”, the basic formula for Louis Armstrong’s ...

Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald: A Foggy Day (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 05, 07

The 1950s boasted many illustrious pairs: Barbie & Ken, Boris & Natasha, Fred & Ethel, Huntley & Brinkley, Ike & Mami...

Canadian Brass: Struttin' With Some Barbecue (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music August 29, 09

New Orleans music is built on a sturdy foundation set by generations of brass bands, and even Louis Armstrong (who in...

Louis Armstrong (featuring Lonnie Johnson): I'm Not Rough (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 08, 09

Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens recordings are not just jazz classics, they are among the most important a...

Louis Armstrong (featuring Lonnie Johnson): Savoy Blues (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music January 14, 09

This is the third of the classic Louis Armstrong Hot Five recordings with the special addition of jazz and blues guit...

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