Release : Louis Armstrong and The All Stars - Satchmo At Pasadena (1951)
Artist : Louis Armstrong and The All Stars
Album : Satchmo At Pasadena (1951)
Genre : Jazz
Source : CDDA
Label : Verve
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Date : 00-00-2009
Encoder : LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : 159kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 10
Time : 48:06 min
Size : 55.29 MB
1 (Back Home Again In) Indiana 5:31
2 Baby It's Cold Outside 5:42
3 'way Down Yonder In New Orleans 5:42
4 Star Dust 3:34
5 The Hucklebuck 3:34
6 Honeysuckle Rose 3:56
7 Just You, Just Me 6:22
8 My Monday Date 6:37
9 You Can Depend On Me 4:07
10 That's A Plenty 3:01
Reissued for the first time on CD, Satchmo at Pasadena provides an enjoyable but
incomplete presentation of Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars recorded live on
January 1, 1951. The Pasadena Civic Auditorium concert found Armstrong fronting
an edition of the All-Stars with trombonist Jack Teagarden, clarinetist Barney
Bigard, pianist Earl Hines, bassist Arvell Shaw, Cozy Cole on drums, and
vocalist Velma Middleton on two tracks. At the time of this concert, musicians
began to take advantage of the new LP format that allowed them to bypass the
usual three-minute time constraints of 78 rpm and stretch out a bit. Armstrong
was no exception, and even though Satchmo is more of the
ringleader/vocalist/showman on this set, the All-Stars provide some heated
improvising, especially Hines on "Honeysuckle Rose" and Bigard's clarinet solo
on the otherwise knockabout version of "Just You, Just Me." To properly capture
what a well-rounded performance this is, it should be heard in its entirety,
exemplified by the out of print four-CD compilation The California Concerts,
which included the complete Pasadena set and a gig at the Crescendo club in L.A.
the following evening. Since this reissue is an exact reproduction of the 1951
Decca LP, the songs are not only out of sequence but numerous tracks are
omitted. It's too bad Verve didn't simply reissue the entire concert, which
would have been preferable over the lavish attention paid to reproducing the
original packaging.