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Louis Armstrong: Live In Europe

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ARTIST: LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Louis Armstrong, trumpet, vocal
Jack Teagarden, trombone, vocal
Barney Bigard, clarinet
Earl Hines, piano
Arvell Shaw, bass
Sid Catlett, drums

SAMPLETRACKS:

  1. 1

    Black & Blue Louis Armstrong: Live in Europe

  2. 2

    Can Anyone Explain Louis Armstrong: Live in Europe

  3. 3

    Rocking Chair Louis Armstrong: Live in Europe

Tracks 1- 4 Programme National broadcast–Concert “Constellation 48” Opera de Nice, Jazz Festival, Nice, France, February 22, 1948
Tracks 5-9, Programme National broadcast – concert, Opera de Nice, Jazz Festival, Nice, France, February 23, 1948

Louis Armstrong, trumpet, vocal
Trummy Young,  trombone
Bob McCracken, clarinet, vocal
Marty Napoleon, piano
Arvell Shaw, bass
Cozy Cole, drums
Velma Middleton, vocal

Tracks 10-16, Titania Palast, Berlin, German, October 12, 1952

Track List:

  1. Presentation by Gilles Cazeneuve, Muskrat Ramble  3:41 | 2. Rockin’ Chair – 2:44 | 3. Rose Room – 3:41 | 4. Royal Garden Blues  5:06 | 5. Panama  4:24 |6. On The Sunny Side Of The Street  6:00 | 7. Mahogany Hall Stomp  3:30 | 8. Black And Blue  3:47 | 9. Them There Eyes  4:20 | 10. My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It – 3:43 | 11. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans – 5:04 | 12. Coquette – 3:10 | 13. Lover Come Back to Me – 3:49 | 14. Can Anyone Explain – 5:43 | 15. Tin Roof Blues – 5:28 | 16. A Kiss to Build a Dream On – 5:15

 

Description

Armstrong made his first tour of England in 1932 and then lived in Europe between July 1933 and January 1935, but he did not return to the continent until the 1948 Nice International Jazz Festival. After his triumph in France in 1948, Armstrong returned for a longer tour of Europe in 1949 but didn’t stop in postwar Germany. He finally made it to Berlin on October 12, 1952 for a memorable concert that was broadcast on RIAS (Radio in the American Sector) in beautiful sound quality. The concert tape was collected by RIAS volunteer Winfried Maier, who donated his comprehensive collection of Armstrong-in-Germany materials to the Louis Armstrong House Museum and Archives in 2016.

The entire band sounds wonderful in Nice, especially the dynamic drums of Catlett and the peerless work by Teagarden–Armstrong’s favorite musician–but indeed, Armstrong demonstrates he’s the leader on each track.  1952 was something of a rebuilding year for the All Stars as biggest of the early “stars” had moved on. But as in Nice, the star of the Berlin show is still the leader, showcased on a wide variety of material.

Armstrong was most tickled by the reaction the Berlin fans had to the lowdown treatment of “My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It.” Reminiscing to Edward R. Murrow in 1955, Armstrong said, “We played in Germany one concert, the first time we went there, and the people was sitting there with those lorgnettes when they first come in. And when we got down to ‘The Bucket’s Got a Hole in It,’ they put them down and [starts clapping and stomping his foot], ‘Yeah, Daddy!’”

Listening to these glimpses of the marvelous music Armstrong made in France and Germany–two countries that still love him in the 21st century–there’s no better way to sum up the feeling than YEAH, DADDY!

 

 

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