Track Listing
1. Honeysuckle Rose
2. Blue Turning Grey Over You
3. I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby
4. Squeeze Me
5. Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
6. All That Meat and No Potatoes
7. I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling
8. Black and Blue, (What Did I Do to Be So)
9. Ain't Misbehavin'
10. Black and Blue (What Did I Do to Be So) - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
11. I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
12. Blue Turning Grey Over You - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
13. I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
14. Squeeze Me - (with Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five)
15. Black and Blue (What Did I Do to Be So) - (with Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra)
16. Ain't Misbehavin' - (with Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra)
17. Blue Turning Grey Over You - (with Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra)
18. Keepin' Out of Mischief Now - (with Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra)
19. Sweet Savannah Sue - (with Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra)
20. That Rhythm Man - (with Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Barney Bigard, Trummy Young, Velma Middleton | | Producer: | George Avakian, Tommy Rockwell | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players.
Personnel includes: Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet); Earl Hines (vocals, piano); Mancy Carr (vocals, banjo); Velma Middleton (vocals); Charlie Holmes (soprano & alto saxophones, clarinet); Lester Boone (alto saxophone, clarinet); Bert Curry (alto saxophone); Jimmy Strong (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Homer Hobson, Otis Johnson, Henry "Red" Allen, Zilmer Randolph (trumpet); Trummy Young, Fred Robinson, J. C. Higginbotham, Preston Jackson (trombone); Pete Briggs (tuba); Barney Bigard (clarinet); Carroll Dickerson (violin); Billy Kyle, Gene Anderson, Luis Russell (piano); Will Johnson (guitar); Arvell Shaw, George "Pops" Foster (bass); Barrett Deems, Zutty Singleton, Paul Barbarin (drums).
Recorded between 1929 and 1955. Originally released on Columbia (708). Includes liner notes by George Avakian.
This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players.
In 1955, Louis "Satchmo/Satch" Armstrong, along with vocalist Velma Middleton, got into the studio to pay tribute to a late, legendary jazz pianist/singer/songwriter/entertainer, Fats Waller. All the standards are here: "Honeysuckle Rose," "Squeeze Me," "Ain't Misbehavin," rendered in a fine & mellow but gently, genially swinging fashion. Armstrong's trumpet is superb, and his voice carries the good-time spirit of Waller's music. Nice clarinet from swing clarinet legend Barney Bigard, too. This music recalls a time when jazz was a dominant pop form, capable of irreverent fun as well as heartfelt soloing. A perfect tonic for a hard day at the Office called Life.
Editorial Reviews
...One of the most compelling albums that the Armstrong All-Stars recorded for Columbia....there is no denying the still vital potency of [his] trumpet playing here...
JazzTimes (10/01/2000)
...Remastered and expanded to create a complete retrospective of his work with the hot-jazz kingpin's music...
CMJ (06/26/2000)
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