Satchmo: Louis Armstrong, The Ambassador of Jazz contains 10 CDs, a 200-page hardcover book by Richard Havers and an assortment of sheet music reproductions, all housed in a replica of Armstrong’s travel trunk. Seven of the CDs will cover previously released Armstrong classics derived from his work at a cross-section of labels including OKeh, Columbia, Vocalion, Victor, Verve, Decca, Mercury and ABC-Paramount . An eighth disc will consist of previously unreleased and rare session material, a ninth will present his 1956 concert at California’s Hollywood Bowl, and a tenth will feature a 1965 interview with Armstrong conducted by Dan Morgenstern. The release is from Universal Music U.K.
Armstrong recorded for a variety of labels over his long career: as the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens period (1925-1928) and the rest of his OKeh period through 1932, as well as his stints at RCA Victor (1932-1933 and 1946-1947) and Columbia (1954-1956). He recorded for Decca for roughly fifteen years between 1935 and 1949. In 1956 he began a tenure at Verve, where he had monumental collaborations with Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson. Following his Verve stint, he briefly returned to Decca and recorded for the original Audio Fidelity label as well as for MGM and Roulette. The 1960’s saw Louis hit a commercial peak with 1964′s Hello, Dolly! on Kapp, but he also was heard on ABC-Paramount, Mercury, EMI, Bluebird, Avco Embassy and Buena Vista. This release is being described as the “the definitive version of the Amstrong legacy” as it cross-licenses tracks from Armstrong’s many label affiliations over his nearly 50 years of recording.
Disc 1
Just Gone – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band (4/5/23)
Chime Blues – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band (4/5/23)
Dipper Mouth Blues – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band (4/6/23 or 6/22-29/23)
Tears – King Creole’s Creole Jazz Band (10/23)
New Orleans Stomp (Clean Version) – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band (10/16/23)
Shanghai Shuffle – Ma Rainey Accompanied by Her Georgia Jazz Band (10/16/24)
Copenhagen (Single Version) – Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra (10/30/24)
Everybody Loves My Baby – Clarence Williams’ Blue Five or Josephine Beatty with The Red Onion Jazz Babies (both rec. 11/6/24)
Cake Walking Babies (From Home) – The Red Onion Jazz Babies (12/22/24) or Eva Taylor with Clarence Williams’ Blue Five (1/8/25)
St. Louis Blues – Bessie Smith (1/14/25)
Sugar Foot Stomp – Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra (5/29/25)
Santa Claus Blues – Eva Taylor with Clarence Williams’ Blue Five (10/8/25 or 10/16/25)
Georgia Grind – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (2/26/26)
Heebie Jeebies – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (2/26/26)
Cornet Chop Suey – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (2/26/26)
Muskrat Ramble (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (2/26/26)
Stomp Off, Let’s Go – Erskine Tate’s Vendrome Orchestra (5/28/26)
He Likes It Slow – Butterbeans and Susie (6/18/26)
Chicago Breakdown – Louis Armstrong and His Stompers (5/9/27)
Potato Head Blues – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven (5/10/27)
New Orleans Stomp – Johnny Dodd’s Black Bottom Stompers (4/22/27)
Hotter Than That – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (12/13/27)
Savoy Blues – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (12/13/27)
Disc 2
West End Blues – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (6/28/28)
Skip the Gutter – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (6/27/28)
Symphonic Raps – Carroll Dickerson’s Savoyagers (7/5/28)
Weather Bird (12/5/28)
Muggles – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (12/7/28)
Tight Like This – Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five (12/12/28)
Knockin’ A Jug – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (3/5/29)
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five (3/5/29)
Mahogany Hall Stomp – Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five (3/5/29)
Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (7/19/29)
Black and Blue – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (7/22/29)
When You’re Smiling – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (9/11/29)
After You’ve Gone – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (11/26/29)
Rockin’ Chair – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (12/13/29)
St. Louis Blues – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (12/13/29)
Blue Turning Grey Over You (2/1/30)
Tiger Rag – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (5/4/30)
I’m a Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas – Louis Armstrong and His New Sebastian Cotton Club Orchestra (7/21/30)
Blue Yodel No. 9 (1996 Remaster) – Jimmie Rodgers (7/16/30)
Body and Soul – Louis Armstrong and His New Sebastian Cotton Club Orchestra (10/9/30)
You’re Lucky To Me – Louis Armstrong and His New Sebastian Cotton Club Orchestra (10/16/30)
Memories of You – Louis Armstrong and His New Sebastian Cotton Club Orchestra (10/16/30)
Sweethearts on Parade – Louis Armstrong and His New Sebastian Cotton Club Orchestra (12/23/30)
When Your Lover Has Gone – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (4/29/31)
Disc 3
Lazy River – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (11/3/31)
Chinatown, My Chinatown – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (Single Version) (11/3/31)
Stardust - Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (11/4/31)
You Can Depend on Me – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (11/5/31)
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea- Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (1/25/32)
All of Me – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (1/27/32)
Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (3/11/32)
That’s My Home (1996 Remaster) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (12/8/32)
I’ve Got the World on a String – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (1/26/33)
I’ve Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (1996 Remaster) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (1/26/33)
Basin Street Blues – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (1/27/33)
Laughin’ Louie – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (1/24/33)
I’m In the Mood For Love- Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (10/3/35)
Old Man Mose – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (10/21/35 or 10/22/35)
Thanks a Million – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (Single Version) (12/19/35)
Shoe Shine Boy (Single Version)- Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (12/19/35)
Ev’ntide (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (5/18/36)
Swing That Music (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (5/18/36)
The Skeleton in the Closet (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (8/7/36)
On a Cocoanut Island (Original Single Version) – Louis Armstrong with the Polynesians (8/18/36)
The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) – Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers (6/29/37)
Jubilee (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (1/12/38)
Struttin’ with Some Barbeque (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (1/12/38)
I Double Dare You (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (1/13/38)
When The Saints Go Marching In (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (5/13/38)
Disc 4
Nobody Knows De Trouble I’ve Seen – Louis Armstrong with the Decca Mixed Choir (6/14/38)
Jeepers Creepers (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (1/18/39)
I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You) (Single Version) (4/25/39)
Wolverine Blues (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (3/14/40)
Perdido Street Blues (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (5/27/40)
I Cover the Waterfront – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven (3/10/41)
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (11/16/41)
I Never Knew (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (4/17/42)
I Wonder (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (1/14/45)
Snafu (Single Version) – Esquire All-American 1946 Award Winners (1/10/46)
You Won’t Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) (Single Version) – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong with Bob Haggart’s Orchestra (1/18/46)
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans – Louis Armstrong and His Dixieland Seven (10/17/46)
Pennies From Heaven (2001 Remaster, Live)- Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars (5/17/47)
Back O’Town Blues (Album Version, Live) – Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars (5/17/47)
Rockin’ Chair – Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars (6/10/47)
Jack-Armstrong Blues (1996 Remaster) – Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars (6/10/47)
Muskrat Ramble – Parts 1 & 2 – Louis Armstrong and The All-Stars (Live, 1947 Symphony Hall) (11/30/47)
That’s My Desire (Live, 1947 Symphony Hall) – Louis Armstrong and The All-Stars (11/30/47)
That Lucky Old Sun (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra (9/6/49)
Blueberry Hill (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra (9/6/49)
You Can’t Lose a Broken Heart (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra (9/30/49)
Disc 5
New Orleans Function – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (4/26-27/50)
That’s For Me (Parts 1 & 2) – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (4/26-27/50)
Panama – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (4/26-27/50)
C’est Si Bon (It’s So Good) – Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra (6/26/50)
La Vie En Rose (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra (6/26/50
You Rascal You (I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead) (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong with Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five (8/23/50)
Dream a Little Dream of Me (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong with Ella Fitzgerald and Sy Oliver’s Orchestra (8/25/50)
You Can Depend On Me – Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars (Live, Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 1951) (1/30/51)
Baby, It’s Cold Outside (Parts 1 & 2) – Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars (Live, Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 1951) (1/30/51)
Gone Fishin’ (Live Radio Version) – likely with Bing Crosby from The Bing Crosby Chesterfield Show (4/19/51)
A Kiss to Build a Dream On – Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra (7/24/51)
(When We Are Dancin’) I Get Ideas (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra (7/24/51)
Because Of You – Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (9/17/51)
Indian Love Call – Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra (11/28/51)
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South (Alternate Lyric Version) – Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra (11/28/51)
It Takes Two to Tango (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra (8/25/52)
Your Cheatin’ Heart (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra (2/23/53)
Someday You’ll Be Sorry (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong with the Commanders (10/22/53)
The Gypsy (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong with the Commanders (10/22/53)
The Whiffenpoof Song – Louis Armstrong with the All-Stars (4/13/54)
Disc 6
Beale Street Blues – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (7/12/54)
Chantez Les Bas (Sing ‘Em Low) (7/14/54)
Back Home Again in Indiana (Live) (1955 Crescendo Club) (1/21/55)
Blue Turning Grey Over You (Edited Alternate Version) – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (4/27/55)
Mack the Knife (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (9/28/55)
The Faithful Hussar (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (12/19/55)
Royal Garden Blues – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (1/24/56)
My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (Live, 1956)
St. Louis Blues (Concerto Grosso) – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars, with Leonard Bernstein, conductor (Live, Lewisohn Stadium, New York) (7/14/56)
Stars Fell on Alabama – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (8/16/56)
They Can’t Take That Away From Me – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (8/16/56)
The Nearness of You – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (8/16/56)
On the Sunny Side of the Street (1983 Satchmo Album Version) (12/11/56)
When You’re Smiling (Without Intro) (12/12/56)
King of the Zulus (1983 Satchmo Album Version) (1/25/57)
Disc 7
Stompin’ at the Savoy – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (7/23/57)
Love Is Here to Stay – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (7/23/57)
I Get a Kick Out of You – Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson (7/31/57)
Stormy Weather – Louis Armstrong with Russell Garcia and Orchestra (8/14-16/57)
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen (Re-Record) – likely Louis Armstrong and Sy Oliver’s Orchestra (2/4/58)
Summertime – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (8/18-19/57)
Bess Oh Where Is My Bess – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (8/18-19/57 & 10/57)
There’s No You – Louis Armstrong and the Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One (10/14/57)
Let’s Fall in Love (Take 2) – Louis Armstrong and the Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One (10/14/57)
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra (2/7/58)
Summer Song – Louis Armstrong and His Band (9/13/61)
Hello, Dolly! –Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (12/3/63)
A Lot of Livin’ to Do – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (12/3/63)
I Still Get Jealous – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (4/18/64)
Moon River – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (4/18/64)
So Long Dearie – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (9/3/64)
Mame (Single Version)- Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (5/66)
Cabaret (Single Version) – Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (8/25/66 or 8/16/67)
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong’s Orchestra and Chorus (8/16/67)
Blueberry Hill – 1970 Newport Jazz Festival
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South – 1970 Newport Jazz Festival
Disc 8
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
Indiana
The Gypsy
Ole Miss Blues
My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It
Perdido
You Made Me Love You
Mack the Knife
Stompin’ at the Savoy
You Can Depend On Me
Mop Mop
You Won’t Be Satisfied
Undecided
When the Saints Go Marching In
Disc 9
Dan Morgenstern Interview with Louis Armstrong, 1965
Disc 10
Yeh (Take 5)
Mm-Mm (Take 10)
Indiana (Studio Warm-Up)
Makin’ Whoopee (Breakdown)
Makin’ Whoopee (Take 1)
I Get a Kick Out of You (Take 1)
I Get a Kick Out of You (Run-Through)
I Get a Kick Out of You (Takes 3 & 4)
I Get a Kick Out of You (Takes 9-12)
I Get a Kick Out of You (Take 13)
Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love) (Breakdowns)
Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love) (Take 3)
Willow Weep For Me (Take 1)
Willow Weep For Me (Take 4)
Oh Bess Where Is My Bess (Takes 5 & 6)
Oh Bess Where Is My Bess (Take 7)
Redheaded Woman
Let’s Fall in Love
Basin Street Blues (Take 1)
So Long, Dearie (Rehearsal Take)
So Long, Dearie (Take 1)
Pretty Little Missy (Take 1)
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