Louis Armstrong

Over the course of his long and illustrious career, Louis Armstrong visited Scandinavia on no less than nine occasions to both tour and record. Amongst the wealth of fabulous recording he produced on these visits, are six tracks that are said to be the world’s first live jazz recordings, recorded in Denmark and Sweden during the 1930s.
These, and many other recordings, some previously unreleased, have been meticulously restored for this 4-CD* Armstrong collector’s set. Each CD has over 70 minutes of music and is accompanied by a booklet including many unique photographs and comprhensive liner notes by the renowned Armstrong authority, Gösta Hägglöf.


CD 1: 1933 - 1952
Tracks: 1. I Cover The Waterfront, 2. Dinah, 3. Tiger Rag, 4. Chinatown My Chinatown, 5. You Rascal You, 6. On The Sunny Side Of The Street, 7. Twelfth Street Rag, 8. Steak Face, 9. When, 10. Indiana, 11. A Kiss To Build A Dream On, 12. Way Down Yonder, 13. Coquette 14 Lover Come Back To Me, 15. Can Anyone Explain?, 16. After You, 17. Russian Lullaby, 18. Bugle Blues/Ole Miss. Recorded: October 21, 1953, Copenhagen
(#1-3); October 28, 1933, Auditorium, Stockholm (#4-6); October 5, 1949, K.B. Hallen, Copenhagen (#7-8) and October 4, 1952, Kungliga Tennishallen, Stockholm (#9-18).

Total Time: 76:41 mins.

CD 2: 1952 - 1955
Tracks: 1. When, 2. New Orleans Function, 3. Pennies From Heaven, 4. Tin Roof Blues, 5. Muskrat Ramble, 6. Basin Street Blues, 7. Big Daddy Blues, 8. You, 9. Stompin’ At Savoy, 10. On Sunny Side Of The Street, 11. High Society, 12. When, 13. Indiana, 14. The Gypsy, 15. Pretty Little Missy, 16. Struttin’ With Some Barbecue.
Recorded: October 4, 1952, Kungliga Tennishallen, Stockholm (continued) (#1-9); September 29, 1952, K.B. Hallen, Copenhaghen (#10-11); October 2, 1955, Konserthuset, Stockholm (#12-16).

Total Time: 76:39 mins.


CD 3: 1955 - 1959
Tracks: 1. When The Saints Go Marchin’ In, 2. Basin Street Blues, 3. Tin Roof Blues, 4. Sweet Georgia Brown, 5. St Louis Blues, 6. When, 7. Intro, 8. When, 9. A Kiss To Build A Dream On, 10. When, 11. When, 12. Indiana, 13. I Get Ideas, 14. Tenderly / You, 15. The Faithful Husar, 16. Old Man River, 17. Mack The Knife, 18. After You, 19. Ole Miss.
Recorded: October 2, 1955, Konserthuset, Stockholm (continued) (#1-6); October 13, 1955, Student’s Society, Copenhagen (#7-10); January 16, 1959, Konserthuset, Stockholm (#11-19).

Total Time: 75:06 mins.


CD 4: 1959 - 1967
Tracks: 1. Basin Street Blues, 2. Tiger Rag (+ 4 Encores), 3. Now You Has Jazz, 4. Christopher Columbus, 5. Black & Blue/Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans, 6. The Bucket’s Got A Hole In It, 7. Kokomo, 8. Struttin’ With Some Barbecue, 9. Royal Garden Blues, 10. When The Saints Go Marchin’ In, 11. Mack The Knife, 12. Back O’town Blues, 13. Ole Miss, 14. St James Infirmary, 15. Cabaret, 16. You’ll Never Walk Alone.
Recorded: January 21-22, 1959, Falconercentret, Copenhagen (#1-10); July 25, 1967, The Odd Fellow Paleet, Copenhagen (#11-16).

Total Time: 75:23 mins.