Louis Armstrong: The Armstrong Box [CD/DVD]

by Louis Armstrong

Overview

The Armstrong Box, the latest in Storyville Records' series that assembles eight-disc, budget-priced boxes drawn from label founder Karl Emil Knudsen's massive collection, features live Louis Armstrong dates tracked between 1947 and 1967 with various configurations of his All-Stars, along with a bonus DVD of Armstrong on video, making it a must-have for serious Armstrong collectors. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	11/08/2011
Label:	Storyville / Storyville Records
UPC:	0717101860920
Rank:	157437

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Intro
2. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
3. Basin Street Blues
4. Muskrat Ramble
5. Dear Old Southland
6. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
7. Someday You Will Be Sorry
8. Tiger Rag
9. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
10. Muskrat Ramble
11. A Song Is Born
12. Basin Street Blues
13. St. Louis Blues
14. High Society
15. Royal Garden Blues
16. I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues
17. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
18. Indiana
19. Big Butter and Egg Man
20. High Society
21. Auld Lang Syne
22. Back O'Town Blues
23. 12th Street Rag

Disc 2

24. Intro
25. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
26. Panama
27. Back O'Town Blues
28. Pale Moon
29. Don't Fence Me In
30. Lover
31. Body and Soul
32. A Song Was Born
33. Whispering
34. Mahogany Hall Stomp
35. Me and Brother Bill
36. C Jam Blues
37. A Hundred Years from Today
38. Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues
39. Blue Skies
40. Rockin' Chair
41. The Sheik of Araby
42. Confessin'

Disc 3

43. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
44. Shadrack
45. When the Saints Go Marching In
46. West End Blues
47. The Dummy Song
48. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
49. Tin Roof Blues
50. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
51. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
52. Tin Roof Blues
53. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
54. 'S Wonderful
55. Perdido
56. Velma's Blues
57. The Dummy Song
58. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
59. Intro (The All-Stars Introduced by Lucille Armstrong)
60. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
61. A Kiss to Build a Dream On
62. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
63. Stompin' at the Savoy
64. When It's Sleepy Time Down South

Disc 4

65. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
66. Indiana
67. Someday You'll Be Sorry
68. Ole Miss
69. Dardanella
70. A Kiss to Build a Dream On
71. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
72. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
73. You Can Depend on Me
74. Baby, It's Cold Outside
75. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
76. C'est Ci Bon
77. Someday You'll Be Sorry
78. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
79. Jerry
80. Now You Has Jazz
81. Yellow Dog Blues
82. New Orleans Function
83. When the Saints Go Marching In

Disc 5

84. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
85. Indiana
86. A Kiss to Build a Dream On
87. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
88. Tiger Rag
89. Now You Has Jazz
90. High Society Calypso
91. Ole Miss
92. Perdido
93. Tin Roof Blues
94. Yellow Dog Blues
95. All of Me
96. Georgia on My Mind
97. Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home
98. Struttin' with Some Barbecue
99. C'est Ci Bon
100. Jazz Me Blues
101. Basin Street Blues
102. Blueberry Hill
103. Margie

Disc 6

104. The Man I Love
105. Mack the Knife
106. Stompin' at the Savoy
107. Lover Come Back to Me
108. St. Louis Blues
109. After You've Gone
110. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
111. Indiana
112. A Kiss to Build a Dream On
113. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
114. Tiger Rag
115. Mack the Knife
116. Blueberry Hill
117. When the Saints Go Marchin' In
118. Ole Miss
119. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
120. Basin Street Blues
121. C'est Ci Bon
122. La Vie en Rose
123. The Faithful Hussar
124. When It's Sleepy Time Down South

Disc 7

125. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
126. Indiana
127. Back O'Town Blues
128. Tiger Rag
129. Tiger Rag (Encore)
130. Hello Dolly
131. Hello Dolly (Encore)
132. Pee Wee Blues
133. Teach Me Tonight
134. Mack the Knife
135. Mack the Knife (Encore)
136. Tenderly/You'll Never Walk Alone
137. Ole Miss
138. St. James Infirmary
139. The Girl from Ipanema
140. Volare
141. Misty
142. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
143. This Could Be the Start of Something Big
144. What the World Needs Now
145. There'll Be Some Changes Made
146. Cabaret
147. Cabaret (Encore)
148. The Song Is Ended
149. When the Saints Go Marchin' In

Disc 8

150. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
151. Muskrat Ramble
152. Jeepers Creepers
153. Medley: Georgia on My Mind/In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening/Lazy Bones/Rockin Chair/Lazy River
154. South Rampart Street Parade
155. On the Sunny Side of the Street
156. St. Louis Blues
157. I Love Jazz
158. Medley: Now You Has Jazz/Tiger Rag
159. Umbrella Man
160. Perdido

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Louis Armstrong   Primary Artist,Vocals,Trumpet
Timex All Star Band   Primary Artist
Bob Crosby's Bobcats   Primary Artist
Duke Ellington Orchestra   Primary Artist
Jo Jones   Drums
Edmond Hall   Vocals,Clarinet
Dizzy Gillespie   Vocals,Trumpet
Ernie Caceres   Sax (Bass),Sax (Baritone)
Vic Dickenson   Trombone
Russell Procope   Sax (Alto)
Francis Williams   Trumpet
Jaye P. Morgan   Vocals
Cliff Leeman   Drums
Gene Krupa   Drums,Vocals
Cat Anderson   Trumpet
Jewel Brown   Vocals
Jimmy Hamilton   Sax (Tenor)
Big Sid Catlett   Drums
Bob Haggart   Bass
Bob Crosby   Vocals
Bud Freeman   Sax (Tenor)
George Wettling   Drums
Gerry Mulligan   Sax (Baritone)
Fred Murray   Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
Mort Herbert   Bass
Britt Woodman   Trombone
Buddy Catlett   Bass
George Shearing   Piano
Harold Baker   Trumpet
Trummy Young   Vocals,Trombone
Yank Lawson   Trumpet
Hoagy Carmichael   Piano,Vocals
Tony Parenti   Clarinet
Peanuts Hucko   Clarinet,Sax (Tenor)
Chico Hamilton   Drums
Coleman Hawkins   Sax (Tenor)
Jackie Gleason   Vocals
Barrett Deems   Drums
Barney Bigard   Vocals,Clarinet
Joe Darensbourg   Clarinet
Billy Kyle   Piano
Paul Gonsalves   Sax (Tenor)
Lou McGarity   Trombone
Lionel Hampton   Vibraphone
Billy Cronk   Bass
Bill Stegmeyer   Clarinet
Bobby Hackett   Cornet
Chubby Jackson   Bass
Chris Griffin   Trumpet
Jack Lesberg   Bass
Duke Ellington   Piano
Cozy Cole   Drums
Jack Teagarden   Vocals,Trombone
Jimmy Woode   Bass
Clark Terry   Trumpet
Tyree Glenn   Trombone,Vibraphone
Dick Cary   Piano
Cutty Cutshall   Trombone
Gus Johnson   Drums
Harry Carney   Sax (Baritone)
Danny Barcelona   Drums
Pee Wee Irwin   Trumpet
Dale Jones   Bass
Kenny John   Drums
Wyatt Reuther   Bass
Joe Muranyi   Clarinet
Lionel Hampton Orchestra   Orchestra
Sam Jones   Bass
Les Spann   Guitar
Junior Mance   Piano,Vocals
Lex Humphries   Drums
Velma Middleton   Vocals
John Sanders   Trombone
Roy Eldridge   Trumpet
Ruby Braff   Trumpet
Marty Napoleon   Piano
Quentin Jackson   Trombone
Ralph Sutton   Piano
Earl Hines   Piano
Anita O'Day   Vocals
Milt Hinton   Bass
Arvell Shaw   Bass
Johnny Hodges   Sax (Alto)

Technical Credits

Francis Wheeler   Composer
Frank Eyton   Composer
Euday L. Bowman   Composer
Don Raye   Composer
W.C. Handy   Composer
George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
Erroll Garner   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Joe Young   Composer
W. Benton Overstreet   Composer
Velma Middleton   Composer
Louis Dunlap   Composer
Juan Tizol   Composer
Richard Coburn   Composer
Luis Russell   Composer
R. Henderson   Composer
Sidney Arodin   Composer
Andy Razaf   Composer
Berlin   Composer
Harold Arlen   Composer
Bob Crosby   Leader
Brunies   Composer
Al J. Neiburg   Composer
Henry Creamer   Composer
Hoagy Carmichael   Composer
Anders Stefansen   Producer
Ted Koehler   Composer
Ted Snyder   Composer
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Turner Layton   Composer
Spencer Williams   Composer
Frank Loesser   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Robert Sour   Composer
Scott Turner   Composer
Venable   Composer
Ray Bauduc   Composer
Stuff Smith   Composer
Gene DePaul   Composer
Billy Higgins   Composer
Kid Ory   Composer
Irving Berlin   Composer
Cole Porter   Composer
Chick Webb   Composer
Duke Ellington   Composer
Edward Heyman   Composer
Dorothy Fields   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Joe Primrose   Composer
Johnny Green   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Seelen   Composer
Victor Young   Composer
Harry Warren   Composer
Sammy Cahn   Composer
Jorgen Vad   Engineer
Charles Carpenter   Composer
Jan Persson   Photography
Hans Lengsfelder   Composer
Robert Fletcher   Composer
Ricky Riccardi   Liner Notes
Harry B. Smith   Composer
Leon Rappolo   Composer
Bob Haggard   Composer
Frederick Knight Logan   Composer
Gert M. Harm   Photography
Jess G.M. Glick   Composer
Lucille Armstrong   Announcer
Ray DePaul   Composer
Louis Armstrong   Composer
W. H. Tyers   Composer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
Ned Washington   Composer
Earl Hines   Composer
Stuart Gorrell   Composer