★ 路易斯．阿姆斯壯 All Stars 時期的代表作，難得一見的大師現場錄音全記錄！
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「傳奇」兩字已不足以形容路易斯．阿姆斯壯在爵士樂史上的地位，除了出神入化的小號演奏技巧之外，他那渾厚沙啞的嗓音更是空前絕後，加上即興自然的演唱風格，至今仍沒有人能超越他。戰後隨著樂迷口味的轉變，爵士大樂團已難有空間生存，路易斯．阿姆斯壯開始以 6 人編制組成 All Stars 各處演奏並灌錄了無數唱片，這套三LP的專輯就是他於 1956 年在芝加哥的現場錄音，帶領您體會他獨一無二的現場魅力！
Louis Armstrong : The Great Chicago Concert 1956 (Complete) Columbia 65119 - MONO Format: 3 x LP box set with 12 page booklet Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London There has never been (nor will there ever be again) a musician so beloved all over the world as Louis Armstrong. Artistically, he was not only the single most influential fount and inspiration for every pop-music instrumentalist and singer of his time and thereafter, but he was quite easily the greatest entertainer ever to step on the stage, musical or theatrical. And where Louis was concerned, there was no separation; he was as theatrical as he was musical. This album documents just one of his countless concert appearances. It is unique and typical at the same time, for the evening began with a review of “50 years of Jazz” (which also paralled Armstrong’s life, for he and jazz were both born at the turn of the century – Louis in 1901, as a baptismal certificate discovered after his deathhas established, not 1900, as he had always believed), followed by a standard-issue Armstrong All Stars program. Although his choice of selections would change slightly from one night to another, and then more so from one year to the next, certain elements remained constant. No matter how often a composition was repeated (he opened every show “Sleepy time Down South”, almost invariably followed by “Indiana”), Louis Armstrong gave his all every performance – no matter how many or few in the audience, and no matter if the decades of nearly non-stop touring had left him exausted on a particular night. Personnel : Louis Armstrong, trumpet and vocal/ Edmond Hall, clarinet, vocal on “Buckets Got A Hole In It”/ Trummy Young, trombone, vocal on “Rockin’ Chair” & “Margie”/ Billy Kyle, piano/ Dale Jones, bass/Barrett Deems, drums/ Velma Middleton, vocal on “Big Mama’s Back In Town, “That’s My Desire” & “Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)”.
Tracklisting
Side A
1. Medley: Flee As A Bird To The Mountain/ Oh, Didn't He Ramble
2. Medley: Memphis Blues/ Frankie And Johnny/ Tiger Rag
3. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
4. Basin Street Blues
Side B
1. Black And Blue
2. West End Blues
3. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
4. Struttin' With Some Barbecue
5. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
Side C
1. Medley: Manhattan/ When It's Sleepy Time Down South
2. Indiana
3. The Gypsy
4. The Faithful Hussar
Side D
1. Rockin' Chair
2. Bucket's Got A Hole In It
3. Perdido
4. Clarinet Marmalade
Side E
1. Mack The Knife
2. Medley: Tenderly/ You'll Never Walk Alone
3. Stompin' At The Savoy
4. Margie
Side F
1. Big Mama's Back In Town
2. That's My Desire
3. Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)
4. When The Saints Go Marching In
5. The Star Spangled Banner
Recorded live in Chicago at Medina Temple on June 1, 1956 Produced by George Avakian
