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Should be in everyone's music collection. A short simple WOW. This is an absolutely glorious collection of Armstrong classics.
I just recently purchased "C'est Ci Bon" and can't be bothered with listening to anything else. Enclosed with the set is one of the better insert booklets you'll come across, replete with background information, full discography and pictures. Do you like blues. Of course Armstrong is the star attraction and I have to revise my previously held views and say that this was when he was at this best. I can't believe I've gone this long in my life without owning this fantastic collection of Satchmo in the Forties.
He was, by comparison, rougher in the Thirties and blander in the Fifties. Do you like awesome trumpet playing. His voice, his horn playing and his arrangements are at their best in this set. Great music and a great bargain. The two renditions of "Rocking Chair" are worth the purchase price alone. Other featured performers include Billie Holiday, the Mills Brothers, Barney Bigard, Earl Hines, Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton.
Do you like pure jazz. Do you like Louis Armstrong. A veritable who's who of the mid century music industry. Do you like the big band sound. As with many other cuts this one features the vastly underrated Jack Teagarden along with Satchmo. Some of the best music you'll ever own.
Do you like the New Orleans sound. It's all here.
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