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No thanks to a concert schedule that gave recording sessions a low priority, Louis Armstrong's period at Verve was unconscionably short -- only a little over a year (August 1956 to October 1957). But since Verve chief Norman Granz liked to record his artists a lot, Armstrong's Verve sessions produced quite a harvest -- six albums on eight LPs, including three with the redoubtable Ella Fitzgerald -- substantial portions of which are included in this well-packed two-CD set. The albums Ella and Louis Again and Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson get the most exposure with eight tracks apiece, the first Ella and Louis album gets five, I've Got the World on a String gets four, and Louis Under the Stars and, strangely, the Porgy and Bess album with Fitzgerald only get three each. Granz caught Armstrong at a fortuitous time, the autumn of his life, where he had reached a mellow state of artistic maturity with his trumpet powers still intact, and Granz fed him a steady diet of time-tested standards to work out on, world-class rhythm sections from the Verve roster, big orchestras, and of course, a matchless duet partner named Ella Fitzgerald. Among highlights too numerous to summarize, check out the sublime arrangement of "When Your Lover Has Gone," a simply heartbreaking statement of the tune of "You Go to My Head" on muted trumpet, and the exhaustive catalog of intercouplings that marks Satchmo's irreverently easygoing rendering of Cole Porter's complete "Let's Do It" with Peterson's quartet. Listeners also get a studio sound-check breakdown of "Back Home in Indiana" at a fast Dixieland tempo, with Peterson comping up a storm, Armstrong playing through his mouthpiece, and overheard studio dialogue -- an informal vérité gem. Probably because the programmers couldn't resist rummaging through PolyGram's vast acquired jazz archive, the second CD ends rather incongruously with two Armstrong all-star tracks from 1964 and 1965 -- "The Three of Us" and "Pretty Little Missy" -- nice performances but out of place in a Verve survey. They should have instead squeezed in the soulful 1957 "Body and Soul," or something else from Satch's once-undervalued Verve period.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
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Harold Arlen, ComposerLyricist - Ted Koehler, ComposerLyricist - Louis Armstrong, Trumpet, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Smith, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Russell Garcia, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Russell Garcia's Orchestra, Orchestra - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1960 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Don Redman, ComposerLyricist - Norman Granz, Producer - Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - J. Fred Coots, ComposerLyricist - Haven Gillespie, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, MainArtist - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - BROOKS BOWMAN, ComposerLyricist - Russell Garcia, Conductor - Russell Garcia's Orchestra, Orchestra - Norman Granz, Producer - Russ Garcia and His Orchestra, Orchestra
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Buddy Rich, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - RAY BROWN, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Marty Symes, Author - Jerry Livingston, Composer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Al Neiburg, Author - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Harold Arlen, Composer - Ted Koehler, Author - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, MainArtist - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Dorothy Heyward, ComposerLyricist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Russell Garcia, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer - Dubose Edwin Heyward, Author
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ira Gershwin, Author - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Dubose Heyward, Author - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist
℗ 1965 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ella Fitzgerald, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Dorothy Heyward, ComposerLyricist - Dubose Heyward, ComposerLyricist - Louis Armstrong, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1965 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Arthur Johnston, ComposerLyricist - Sam Coslow, ComposerLyricist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, MainArtist - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author - Louis Armstrong, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - RAY BROWN, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Einar Aaron Swan, ComposerLyricist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Russell Garcia, Conductor, Recording Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Russell Garcia's Orchestra, Participant - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Mitchell Parish, ComposerLyricist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Buddy Rich, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - RAY BROWN, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Frank S. Perkins, ComposerLyricist - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, MainArtist - Herb Ellis, MainArtist - Louie Bellson, MainArtist - BALLARD MACDONALD, ComposerLyricist - Oscar Peterson, MainArtist - Norman Granz, Producer - Jerome Hanley, ComposerLyricist - James Frederick Hanley, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1958 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
DISC 2
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Benny Goodman, ComposerLyricist - Edgar Sampson, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Chick William Webb, ComposerLyricist - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer - Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Buddy Rich, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - RAY BROWN, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jack Lawrence, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - WALTER GROSS, ComposerLyricist - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Harold Arlen, Composer - Ted Koehler, Author - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Russell Garcia, Conductor - Russell Garcia's Orchestra, Orchestra - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Robert Haggart, Composer - Louis Armstrong, Trumpet, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johnny Burke, ComposerLyricist - Oscar Peterson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Buddy Rich, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - RAY BROWN, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Bruce R. Sievier, ComposerLyricist - Ord J. Hamilton, ComposerLyricist - Russell Garcia, Conductor - Russell Garcia's Orchestra, Orchestra - Norman Granz, Producer - Bruce Sievier, ComposerLyricist - Ord Hamilton, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Louis Armstrong, Trumpet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - RAY BROWN, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1959 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Sy Oliver, Arranger, Work Arranger - Russell Garcia, Conductor - Russell Garcia's Orchestra, Orchestra - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mitchell Parish, Author - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Clifford Burwell, Composer - Oscar Peterson, MainArtist - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1961 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Irving Berlin, ComposerLyricist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Vernon Duke, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Walter Donaldson, ComposerLyricist - Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Gus Kahn, Author - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - Carl Fischer, ComposerLyricist - Frankie Laine, ComposerLyricist - Russell Garcia, Conductor, MainArtist - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1959 Polydor Inc.
Ella Fitzgerald, MainArtist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist - RAY BROWN, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Ann Ronell, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louie Bellson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author - Ella Fitzgerald, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Louis Armstrong, Trumpet, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Buddy Rich, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - RAY BROWN, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Peterson, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1956 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Louis Armstrong, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Adair, ComposerLyricist - Herb Ellis, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Harold Hopper, ComposerLyricist - Norman Granz, Producer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Unknown, ComposerLyricist - Louis Armstrong, MainArtist
℗ 1957 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Arvell Shaw, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louis Armstrong, Trumpet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Danny Barcelona, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Hal Mooney, Producer - Billy Kyle, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Darensbourg, Clarinet, AssociatedPerformer - Kyle E. Boynton, ComposerLyricist - Glen Thompson, Banjo, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Louis Armstrong And The All-Stars, MainArtist - Russell "Big Chief" Moore, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1964 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
No thanks to a concert schedule that gave recording sessions a low priority, Louis Armstrong's period at Verve was unconscionably short -- only a little over a year (August 1956 to October 1957). But since Verve chief Norman Granz liked to record his artists a lot, Armstrong's Verve sessions produced quite a harvest -- six albums on eight LPs, including three with the redoubtable Ella Fitzgerald -- substantial portions of which are included in this well-packed two-CD set. The albums Ella and Louis Again and Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson get the most exposure with eight tracks apiece, the first Ella and Louis album gets five, I've Got the World on a String gets four, and Louis Under the Stars and, strangely, the Porgy and Bess album with Fitzgerald only get three each. Granz caught Armstrong at a fortuitous time, the autumn of his life, where he had reached a mellow state of artistic maturity with his trumpet powers still intact, and Granz fed him a steady diet of time-tested standards to work out on, world-class rhythm sections from the Verve roster, big orchestras, and of course, a matchless duet partner named Ella Fitzgerald. Among highlights too numerous to summarize, check out the sublime arrangement of "When Your Lover Has Gone," a simply heartbreaking statement of the tune of "You Go to My Head" on muted trumpet, and the exhaustive catalog of intercouplings that marks Satchmo's irreverently easygoing rendering of Cole Porter's complete "Let's Do It" with Peterson's quartet. Listeners also get a studio sound-check breakdown of "Back Home in Indiana" at a fast Dixieland tempo, with Peterson comping up a storm, Armstrong playing through his mouthpiece, and overheard studio dialogue -- an informal vérité gem. Probably because the programmers couldn't resist rummaging through PolyGram's vast acquired jazz archive, the second CD ends rather incongruously with two Armstrong all-star tracks from 1964 and 1965 -- "The Three of Us" and "Pretty Little Missy" -- nice performances but out of place in a Verve survey. They should have instead squeezed in the soulful 1957 "Body and Soul," or something else from Satch's once-undervalued Verve period.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 34 track(s)
- Total length: 02:31:20
- Main artists: Louis Armstrong
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Verve Reissues
- Genre: Jazz
© 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1995 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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