Louis Armstrong

• LIMITED EDITION VINYL

This compilation contains selections from five different nightclub engagements—Bop City in New York in 1950, Club Hangover in San Francisco in 1952, Storyville in Boston in 1953, Basin Street in New York in 1955 and the Brant Inn in Ontario in 1958--featuring five different iterations of Armstrong’s All Stars, featuring top sidemen such as Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, Earl “Fatha” Hines, Arvell Shaw, Cozy Cole, Marty Napoleon, Milt Hinton, Barrett Deems, Edmond Hall and more.

The exciting nightclub performances on this collection are not only being released for the first time, but every track is taken from the Research Collections of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, with the majority emanating from Armstrong's personal reel-to-reel tape collection. This important new release once again demonstrates with finality that Pops was always tops.

TRACKS, PERSONNEL & DATES :

• Louis Armstrong - (vocals, trumpet on all tracks), with:

• ON SIDE A
• A1: MY MONDAY DAY
• Jack Teagarden (trombone)
• Barney Bigard (clarinet)
• Earl Hines (piano)
• Arvell Shaw (bass)
• Cozy Cole (drums)
• New Jersey, June 1950

• A2: HIGH SOCIETY
• Jack Teagarden (trombone)
• Barney Bigard (clarinet)
• Earl Hines (piano)
• Arvell Shaw (bass)
• Cozy Cole (drums)
• Club 150, San Francisco, January 1951

• A3 & A4: WEST END BLUES / YOU'RE JUST IN LOVE
• Russ Phillips (trombone)
• Barney Bigard (clarinet)
• Marty Napoleon (piano)
• Dale Jones (bass)
• Cozy Cole (drums)
• Velma Middleton (vocals)
• Club Hangover, San Francisco, March 1952

• A5: PRETTY LITTLE MISSY
• Trummy Young (trombone)
• Barney Bigard (clarinet)
• Billy Kyle (piano)
• Arvell Shaw (bass)
• Barrett Deems (drums)
• Velma Middleton (vocals)
• Basin Street, New York, July 2, 1955
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• ON SIDE B
• B1: N.O. FUNTION
• Trummy Young (trombone, vocals)
• Barney Bigard (clarinet, vocals)
• Marty Napoleon (piano)
• Milt Hinton (bass)
• Cozy Cole (drums)
• Storyville, Boston, October 1953

• B2, B3 & B4: STRUTTIN WITH SOME BARBECUE / LAZY RIVER / SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE SORRY
• Trummy Young (trombone)
• Edmond Hall (clarinet)
• Billy Kyle (piano)
• Mort Herbert (bass)
• Barrett Deems (drums)
• CBC Broadcast, Burlington, Ontario, Canada, January 23, 1958