Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Hello Dolly
2. What A Wonderful World
3. Jeepers Creepers
4. King of the Zulus (with Timmy Young)
5. We Have All The Time In The World
6. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (with Ella Fitzgerald)
7. Alexander's Ragtime Band
8. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
9. You Can't Lose A Broken Heart (with Billie Holiday)
10. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)
11. Stormy Weather
12. C'est Si Bon (live)
13. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)
14. La Vie En Rose
15. We'll Be Together Again
16. Makin' Whoopee
17. Summertime (with Ella Fitzgerald)
18. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails
19. Basin Street Blues
20. I'm In the Mood for Love

Disc 2:

1. When The Saints Go Marchin' In
2. Mack The Knife
3. Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You (with Ella Fitzgerald)
4. Don't Fence Me In (Live, with Velma Middleton)
5. Stars Fell On Alabama (with Ella Fitzgerald)
6. She's The Daughter Of a Planter from Havana
7. You Rascal You (with Louis Jordan)
8. Just One of Those Things
9. Baby, It's Cold Outside (with Velma Middleton)
10. Tenderly (with Ella Fitzgerald)
11. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
12. Pretty Little Missy
13. Lazy River
14. Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
15. Blueberry Hill
16. Dream a little Dream
17. Gone Fishin' (with Bing Crosby)
18. They Can't Take That Away From Me (with Ella Fitzgerald)
19. Ain't Misbehavin'
20. Ain't Misbehavin' - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2977 in Music
• Released on: 2000-07-17
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 148 minutes

Customer Reviews

music that changed the world
I was only 12 when Louis died and only came to know his music much later. I'd always liked what I'd heard - but buying this album about a year ago was a revelation. I've never heard such a perfect synthesis of jazz/pop/folk. Beautiful songs (both classics and the more obscure), perfectly arranged, with such wonderful collaborators (ie Ella Fitzegerald)- topped by Louis' passionate voice and extradordinary trumpet. Awesome. The music spans the 1920s to the 1960s but my favourite is the 1939 Jepeers Creepers (fascinating to think it was a hit on the outbreak of WW2)- closely followed by Basin St Blues, Tophat and Tails, I'm in the Mood for Love - and on and on. This is a great compilation with a wealth of material - and well mixed with the early and later stuff nicely balanced. Inevitably, I'd like to replace one or two songs on the album with a couple left out... but a tiny fault. This record defines the parameters of almost all contemporary music.

Half a century of quality jazz music
This British compilation contains some of Louis' finest music from the 1920's up to 1970. While the standard of re-mastering is high, there is a limit to how much can be done with very old recordings, even with the best technology available in the year 2000. Nevertheless, the engineers have done a superb job.

Louis (nicknamed Satchmo) is best remembered in Britain for What a wonderful world, which topped the UK charts in the sixties, and We have all the love in the world, which came close to providing Louis with a second chart-topper in the nineties following its use in a TV commercial.

The album includes several duets, with partners including Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Louis Jordan, two live tracks with Velma Middleton (Don't fence me in and Baby it's cold outside) and six tracks with Ella Fitzgerald. The Louis and Ella duets include Summertime, Tenderly and Stars fell on Alabama.

Most people remember Blueberry hill as a Fats Domino rock'n'roll song but it was originally an American hit for Glenn Miller. Dream a little dream is a song that was written in the thirties but is most commonly associated with the Mamas and Papas, who revived it with great success in the sixties. Among the other classic songs here are Hello Dolly, Jeepers creepers, Alexander's ragtime band, Stormy weather, Making whoopee, When the saints go marching in, Mack the knife and Ain't misbehaving, just to name a few.

It is, of course, impossible to include more than a sample of his great recordings on this set so it is quite possible that some of your favorites are missing, but this collection of the great man's music is about as good as you will find on two CD's.

Brilliant inspiring and masterful a work of art.
A brilliant piece of music, not music but art louis armstrong has probably got one of the most brilliant voices in jazz if not the world.I think his work is senstional and inspiring he is most definetly one of the alltime great favourites of jazz, I certainly know that he has influenced me to look harder into jazz and see what it was really created for relaxing and realising what a wonderful world we live in . Louis Armstrong expresses what most people are ashamed to say. His voice is more powerful than a ton of bricks and it bowls you over just to listen to it.Not only has he got a great voice he has the most astounding ability to play music. I think we should honour and gratify someone of this stature and brilliant nature not only does he win us over with his music but also the warming smiles that you see on his pictures and it shows you he doesn't want it for the money but for the gratification of making music. Someone like this should be loved cherished and most of all respected for all eternity. Thankyou for taking the time to read my review and i would like to point out that i am only a boy of thirteen and that i have a very great matter of respect for Mr Armstrong and find it most gratifying to listen to his music. Thankyou once again