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, the brainchild of one of Armstrong’s staunchest supporters, Hughes Panassie. After his triumphant return to 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. 1952 was something of a rebuilding year for the All Stars as biggest of the early “stars” had moved on. Arvell Shaw was back on bass after a year studying in Switzerland and Cozy Cole was still on drums, having replaced the ailing Catlett in 1949. Bigard decided to take this European tour off, replaced by Texas-born clarinetist Bob McCracken. The other two new members, pianist Marty Napoleon and trombonist Trummy Young–the latter having joined just weeks earlier– were exciting and excitable players who lit a spark behind their leader and started transforming the All Stars into famously incendiary outfit it would blossom into in the mid-50s. “Coquette” was actually a holdover feature of Russ Phillips, whom Young replaced, but he quickly makes it his……