Louis Armstrong - The Great Jazz Collection (1995)

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Title: The Great Jazz Collection
Year Of Release: 1995
Label: Scana[ 96009]
Genre: Jazz, Swing
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log)
Total Time: 73:48
Total Size: 344 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. What a Wonderful World (2:15)
02. Black and Blue (4:36)
03. Struttin' with Some Barbecue (5:55)
04. West End Blues (4:12)
05. All That Meat and No Potatoes (5:20)
06. Ole Miss (3:26)
07. Back o' Town Blues (3:49)
08. Indiana (3:50)
09. That's My Desire (4:44)
10. Ain't Misbehavin' (4:00)
11. Aunt Hagar's Blues (4:58)
12. Basin Street Blues (5:47)
13. Tin Roof Blues (3:14)
14. Panama (5:02)
15. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It (3:42)
16. New Orleans Function: Free as a Bird/Didn't He Ramble (6:16)
17. When It's Sleepy Time Down South (2:42)

A jazz pioneer, Louis Armstrong was the first important soloist to emerge in jazz, and he became the most influential musician in the music's history. As a trumpet virtuoso, his playing, beginning with the 1920s studio recordings he made with his Hot Five and Hot Seven ensembles, charted a future for jazz in highly imaginative, emotionally charged improvisation. For this, he is revered by jazz fans. But Armstrong also became an enduring figure in popular music due to his distinctively phrased baritone singing and engaging personality, which were on display in a series of vocal recordings and film roles. He weathered the bebop period of the '40s, growing ever more beloved worldwide. By the '50s, Armstrong was widely recognized, even traveling the globe for the US. .State Department and earning the nickname "Ambassador Satch." His resurgence in the '60s with hit recordings like 1965's Grammy-winning "Hello Dolly" and 1968's classic "What a Wonderful World" solidified his legacy as a musical and cultural icon. In 1972, a year after his death, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Similarly, many of his most influential recordings, like 1928's "West End Blues" and 1955's "Mack the Knife," have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.