Artist: Louis Armstrong
Album: Live At The 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival
Genre: New Orleans Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Label: Monterey Jazz Festival Records
Released: 2007
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- Introduction By Dizzy Gillespie 0:28
- When It's Sleepy Time Down South 2:57
- Indiana (Back Home Again In) 3:50
- Blueberry Hill 3:36
- Tiger Rag 2:20
- Now You Has Jazz 5:09
- High Society Calypso 3:45
- Bucket's Got A Hole In It 3:17
- Perdido 4:48
- Autumn Leaves 2:28
- After You've Gone 4:18
- These Foolish Things 7:32
- Mack The Knife 3:22
- Stompin' At The Savoy 6:23
- Undecided 2:57
- St. Louis Blues 6:26
- That's My Desire 4:36
- When The Saints Go Marching In 4:46
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- Personnel:
- Bass – Mort Herbert
- Clarinet – Peanuts Hucko
- Drums – Danny Barcelona
- Piano – Billy Kyle
- Trombone – Trummy Young
- Trumpet, Vocals – Louis Armstrong
- Vocals – Trummy Young (tracks: 6 to 8), Velma Middleton (tracks: 16 to 18)
In 2007, Concord and the Monterey Jazz Festival joined forces to celebrate the fiftieth edition of the long running festival by launching a special project, issuing selected performances from the vast Monterey Jazz Festival recorded archives held by the Braun Music Library of Stanford University. This CD comes from the opening night set by Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars at the very first Monterey Jazz Festival in 1958. Armstrong had developed a fairly set routine by this point in his career, playing and singing a mix of classic jazz, swing, songs from movies and pop. Joining him are trombonist Trummy Young, clarinetist Peanuts Hucko, pianist Billy Kyle, bassist Mort Hebert and drummer Danny Barcelona, with vocalist Velma Middleton added for three songs at the end of the show. Armstrong has the audience in the palm of his hand throughout the concert, whether playing, singing or doing a bit of comedy. Hucko and the vastly underrated Billy Kyle also solo with gusto, though Young's blustery playing in "Undecided" comes off a bit ham-handed. The source material survived the years surprisingly well, with few audio flaws, aside from musicians occasionally moving away from the microphones and excessively loud drums at times. This is a promising start to what will hopefully become a long running CD series that is sure to be treasured by jazz aficionados.
Review by Ken Dryden