Artist: Louis Armstrong And His All Stars
Album: 1947
Genre: Dixieland, Swing
Label: Classics
Released: 1999
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Ain't Misbehavin' (3:59)
- Rockin' Chair (5:15)
- Back o' Town Blues (4:20)
- Pennies from Heaven (3:49)
- Save It Pretty Mama (4:43)
- St. James Infirmary (3:42)
- Jack-Armstrong Blues (3:00)
- Rockin' Chair (3:15)
- Some Day (3:13)
- Fifty-Fifty Blues (3:00)
- A Song Was Born - Part 1 (2:18)
- A Song Was Born - Part 2 (2:46)
- A Song Was Born (3:21)
- Please Stop Playin' Those Blues (3:19)
- Before Long (2:53)
- Lovely Weather We're Having (3:20)
- Muskrat Ramble - Part 1 (2:54)
- Muskrat Ramble - Part 2 (3:21)
- Black and Blue (4:15)
- Royal Garden Blues - Part 1 (2:31)
- Royal Garden Blues - Part 2 (2:31)
- Lover (2:23)
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In 1947, Armstrong put together his first set of all-stars, including many old friends and colleagues. With Jack Teagarden as the constant on the majority of these sides, we see the personnel shift by year's end, bringing Peanuts Hucko and Barney Bigard into the clarinet seat, with drumming chores split between George Wettling, Cozy Cole (on a four-song orchestra date), and Big Sid Catlett. Kicking off with six tunes from the May 1947 New York Town Hall concert, the set also features a two-song Giants of Jazz session, with Pops in the company of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Lionel Hampton, Mel Powell, and Louis Bellson, and finishes up with four more studio sides and four performances from a 1947 Decca concert album recorded at Boston's Symphony Hall. This is Pops moving from his big-band sound to a smaller, more comfortable group, getting ready for another run at success.
Review by Cub Koda