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Louis Armstrong And His All Stars: Hello, Dolly!

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In May 1964, “Kapp” label released “Hello Dolly!”, album by Louis Armstrong and His All Stars (29th Louis Armstrong album overall). It was recorded December 1963, April 1964, in New York City, and was produced by Michael Kapp.

Personnel:

  • Lousi Armstrong – trumpet
  • Big Chief Russell Moore – trombone
  • Trummy Young – trombone
  • Joe Darensbourg – clarinet
  • Glen Thompson – guitar, banjo
  • Tony Gottuso – guitar, banjo
  • Billy Kyle – piano
  • Arvell Shaw – bass
  • Danny Barcelona – drums

Track listing:

  1. Hello, Dolly – Jerry Herman
  2. It’s Been a Long, Long Time – Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
  3. A Lot of Livin’ to Do – Lee Adams, Charlie Strouse
  4. A Kiss to Build a Dream On – Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Oscar Hammerstein II
  5. Someday – Louis Armstrong
  6. Hey, Look Me Over – Carolyn Leigh, Cy Coleman
  7. I Still Get Jealous – Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
  8. Moon River – Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini
  9. Be My Life’s Companion – Bob Hilliard, Milton De Lugg
  10. Blueberry Hill – Al Lewis, Lary Stock, Vincent Rose
  11. You Are Woman, I Am Man – Bob Merrill, Jule Styne
  12. Jeepers Creepers – Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren

Swinging Blue Jeans: Blue Jeans A’Swinging

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On November 6, 1964, “HMV” label released “Blue Jeans a’Swinging”, the debut Swinging Blue Jeans album. It was recorded in 1964, at “EMI Studios” in London, and was produced by Walter J. Ridley.

Personnel:

  • Ralph Ellis – lead guitar
  • Ray Ennis – rhythm guitar
  • Les Braid – bass, keyboards
  • Norman Kuhlke – drums
  • Walter J. Ridley – photography
  • John Chilton – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Ol’Man Mose – Louis Armstrong, Zilner Randolph
  2. Save the Last Dance for Me – Doc Pomus. Mort Shuman
  3. That’s the Way It Goes – Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch
  4. Around and Around – Chuck Berry
  5. It’s All Over Now – Wally Whyton
  6. Long Tall Sally – Enotris Johnson, Robert Blackwell, Richard Oenniman
  7. Lawdy Miss Clawdy – Lloyd Price
  8. Some Sweet Day – Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  9. It’s So Right – Les Braid, Norman Kuhlke, Ralph Ellis, Ray Ennis
  10. Don’t It Make You Feel Good – Bruce Welch, Hank Marvin
  11. All I Want Is You – Jim Ireland, John Chilton
  12. Tutti Frutti – Dorothy LaBostrie, Joe Lubin, Little Richard

Louis Armstrong: Louis ‘Country & Western Armstrong

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In October 1970, “Avco Embassy Records” label released “Louis ‘Country & Western’ Armstrong”, the last album of recorded music by Louis Armstrong. It was recorded at “Nola Studios” in New York City.

Personnel:

  • Louis Armstrong – vocals
  • Jack Eubanks – guitar
  • Stu Basore – steel guitar
  • Billie Grammer – rhythm guitar
  • Larry Butler – piano
  • Henry Strzelecki – double bass
  • Willie Ackerman – drums

Track listing:

  1. Miller’s Cave – Jack Clement
  2. Almost Persuaded – Billy Sherrill, Glenn Sutton
  3. Running Bear – J.P. Richardson
  4. Get Together – Chet Powers
  5. Crystal Chandeliers – Ted Harris
  6. You Can Have Her – Bill Cook
  7. The Easy Part’s Over – Bill Rice, Jerry Foster
  8. Black Cloud – Bill Brock
  9. Why Did Mrs. Murphy Leave Town – Jack Clement
  10. Wolverton Mountain – Claude King, Merle Kilgore
  11. Ramblin’ Rose – Joe Sherman, Noel Sherman
  12. Crazy Arms – Charles Sales, Ralph Mooney

Louis Armstrong: Concert at the Crescendo Vol. 1

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On January 21, 1955, “Decca” label released “Concert at the Crescendo Vol. 1”,the seventh Louis Armstrong album. It was recorded in 1954, at “Crescendo Club” in Hollywood.

Personnel:      

  • Louis Armstrong – vocals, trumpet
  • Velma Middleton – vocals
  • Barmey Bigard – clarinet
  • Trummy Young – trombone
  • Billy Kyle – piano
  • Arvell Shaw – double bass
  • Barrett Deems – drums
  • Leonard Feather – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. When It’s Sleepy Time Down South – Clarence Muse, Leon Rene, Otis Rene
  2. Jeeper Creepers – Harry Warren
  3. Tin Roof Blues – Paul Mares, Ben Pollack, Mel Stitzel, George Brunies, Leon Roppolo
  4. My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It – Clarence Williams
  5. Rose Room – Art Hickman
  6. Brother Bill – Louis Armstrong, Bill Cosby
  7. Lazy River – Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin
  8. T’ain’t What You Do – Melvin “Sy” Oliver, James “Trummy” Young
  9. Perdido – Juan Tizol
  10. Blues for Bass
  11. Don’t Fence Me In – Cole Porter
  12. Stompin’ at the Savoy – Edgar Sampson

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis

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In October 1956, “Verve” label released “Ella and Louis”, a studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet. It was recorded in August 1956, at “Capitol Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Norman Granz.

Personnel:

  • Ella Fitzgerald– vocals
  • Louis Armstrong– vocals, trumpet
  • Oscar Peterson– piano
  • Herb Ellis– guitar
  • Ray Brown– bass
  • Buddy Rich– drums
  • Val Valentin – engineer
  • Phil Stern – photography

Track listing:

  1. Can’t We Be Friends? – Paul James, Kay Swift
  2. Isn’t This a Lovely Day? – Irving Berlin
  3. Moonlight in Vermont – John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf
  4. They Can’t Take That Away from Me – Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin
  5. Under a Blanket of Blue – Jerry Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes
  6. Tenderly – Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence
  7. A Foggy Day – Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin
  8. Stars Fell on Alabama – Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins
  9. Cheek to Cheek – Irving Berlin
  10. The Nearness of You – Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington
  11. April in Paris – Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg

Ella Fitzgerald: These are the Blues

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In December 1963, “Verve” label released “These are the Blues”, the 30th Ella Fitzgerald album. It was recorded October 28 – 29, 1963, at “A&R Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Norman Granz.

Personnel:

  • Ella Fitzgerald- vocals
  • Roy Eldridge- trumpet
  • Wild Bill Davis- electronic organ
  • Herb Ellis- guitar
  • Ray Brown- double bass
  • Gus Johnson- drums

Track listing:

  1. Jailhouse Blues – Bessie Smith, Clarence Williams
  2. In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) – Leroy Carr, Don Raye
  3. See See Rider – Ma Rainey
  4. You Don’t Know My Mind – Gray, Virginia Liston, Williams
  5. Trouble in Mind – Richard M. Jones
  6. How Long, How Long Blues – Leroy Carr
  7. Cherry Red – Pete Johnson, Big Joe Turner
  8. Downhearted Blues – Lovie Austin, Alberta Hunter
  9. Louis Blues – W. C. Handy
  10. Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya – Louis Armstrong

Hoagy Carmichael

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On December 27, 1981, Hoagland Howard “Hoagy”  Carmichael  died aged 82. He was musician (piano), composer, singer, actor, and bandleader. Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including fifty that achieved hit record status. His best known songs are four among the most-recorded American songs of all time: “Stardust”, “Georgia on My Mind” (lyrics by Stuart Gorrell), “The Nearness of You”, and “Heart and Soul” (lyrics by Frank Loesser). His song “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” (lyrics by Johnny Mercer, won the “Academy Award for Best Original Song” in 1951. Carmichael’s songs were performed by many famous musicians including Sidney Arodin, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire, Bix Beiderbecke, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Helen Forrest, Harry James, Spike Jones, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, Glenn Miller, Dinah Shore, Jack Teagarden and Paul Whiteman.

Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise

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On July 5, 2005, “Asthmatic Kitty” label released “Illinois” (Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come On Feel the Illinoise), the fifth Sufjan Stevens studio album. It was recorded 2004 – 2005, at “The Buddy Project” in New York City, and various locations in New York City, and was produced by Sufjan Stevens.

Personnel:

  • Sufjan Stevens – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, Wurlitzer, bass guitar,  oboe, alto saxophone,  flute,  banjo,  glockenspiel, accordion, vibraphone, alto, sopranino, soprano, and tenor recorders, Casiotone MT-70, sleigh bells,  shaker,  tambourine, triangle, electronic organ,  drums, arrangements,  engineer, recording
  • James McAlister – drums, drum engineering
  • Craig Montoro – trumpet, backing vocals
  • Julianne Carney – violin
  • Rob Moose – violin
  • Marla Hansen – viola
  • Maria Bella Jeffers – cello
  • The Illinoisemaker Choir – clapping, backing vocals
  • Daniel and Elin Smith – clapping, backing vocals
  • Katrina Kerns – backing vocals
  • Shara Worden– backing vocals
  • Matt Morgan – backing vocals
  • Alan Douches – mastering
  • Jon Galloway – remix
  • Tom Eaton
  • Jennifer Hoover
  • Katrina Kerns
  • Beccy Lock
  • Tara McDonnel
  • Divya Srinivasan – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Sufjan Stevens.

    1. Concerning the UFO Sighting near Highland, Illinois
    2. The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, ‘I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!
    3. Come On! Feel the Illinoise!” (Part I: The World’s Columbian Exposition – Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream)
    4. John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
    5. Jacksonville
    6. A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons
    7. Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step Mother!
    8. One Last ‘Whoo-Hoo!’ for the Pullman!!
    9. Go! Chicago! Go! Yeah!
    10. Casimir Pulaski Day
    11. To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament, and It Involves Tube Socks, a Paper Airplane, and Twenty-Two Able-Bodied Men
    12. The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
    13. Prairie Fire That Wanders About
    14. A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze
    15. The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
    16. They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!
    17. Let’s Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don’t Think They Heard It All the Way Out in Bloomington–Normal
    18. In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth
    19. The Seer’s Tower
    20. The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders Part I: The Great Frontier – Part II: Come to Me Only with Playthings Now
    21. Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few
    22. Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run

Joe Jackson: Jumpin’ Jive

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In June 1981, “A&M” label released “Jumpin’ Jive”, the fourth Joe Jackson studio album. It was recorded in May 1981, at “Basing Street Studios” in London, and was produced by Joe Jackson.

Personnel:

  • Joe Jackson– vocals, vibraphone, arrangements
  • Pete Thomas– alto saxophone
  • Raul D’Oliveira – trumpet
  • Nick Weldon – piano
  • Dave Bitelli – tenor saxophoneand clarinet
  • Graham Maby– bass
  • Larry Tolfree – drums
  • All – backing vocals
  • Pete Thomas, Dave Bitelli, Raul D’Oliveira – horn arrangements
  • Norman Mighell – recording, assistant producer
  • Matt The Goose – recording assistant
  • Jeri Heiden, Sandy Brummels – art direction
  • Anton Corbijn- photography

.Track listing:

  1. Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid – Lester Young, King Pleasure
  2. Jack, You’re Dead – Walter Bishop, Dick Miles
  3. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby – Bill Austin, Louis Jordan
  4. We the Cats (Shall Hep Ya) – Cab Calloway, Jack Palmer
  5. San Francisco Fan – Sammy Mysels, Dick Sanford
  6. Five Guys Named Moe – Jerome Bresler, Larry Wynn
  7. Jumpin’ Jive – Cab Calloway, Frank Froeba, Jack Palmer
  8. You Run Your Mouth (and I’ll Run My Business) – Louis Armstrong
  9. What’s the Use of Getting Sober(When You’re Gonna Get Drunk Again) – Busby Meyers
  10. You’re My Meat – Skeets Tolbert
  11. Tuxedo Junction – Erskine Hawkins, Buddy Feyne, William Johnson, Julian Dash
  12. How Long Must I Wait for You – Jerry Black, Lucky Millinder

Benny Carter

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On July 12, 2003, Bennett Lester “Benny” Carter, died aged 96. He was musician (alto saxophone, clarinet, trumpet), composer, arranger, and bandleader,  regarded a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s. In his career the “King” performed with Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Coleman Hawkins, Peggy Lee, Carmen McRae, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Miles Davis,  Django Reinhardt, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, Phil Woods, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Ben Webster, Billy Eckstine, Pearl Bailey, Lou Rawls, Louis Armstrong, Freddie Slack and Mel Torme.

For his work Benny Carter received big number of awards including: “The NEA Jazz Masters Award by The National Endowment for the Arts”, “Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award” , “Grammy Award” for his solo “Prelude to a Kiss”, “A Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame”, “National Endowment for the Arts”, “National Medal of Arts”.