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CD: Complete Decca Studio Recordings of LOUIS ARMSTRONG & All-STARS Mosaic Records
125.00 USD
125.00 USD
09 Apr 2020
16 Mar 2020
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United States
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AllMusic Review
by
Scott Yanow
This attractive limited-edition six-CD set features all of the studio small-group sides done by Armstrong in the 1950s for Decca, and serves as proof that Louis Armstrong was still a very vital trumpeter in the 1950s.
The first disc in particular is quite rewarding for it contains a full program by his 1950 sextet with trombonist Jack Teagarden, clarinetist Barney Bigard, and pianist Earl Hines.
The second disc has a variety of odds and ends (including the first version of "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" and two vocal duets with Gary Crosby).
Most of the final four CDs are from an ambitious project (originally titled "A Musical Autobiography") in which the great trumpeter/vocalist revisited many of the songs that he had recorded in the 1920s and '30s; some of the newer versions are actually better than the earlier ones.