Louis Armstrong - The Chronological Classics: 1952-1953 '2004

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Tracklist

01. White Christmas (2:43)
02. Winter Wonderland (3:03)
03. Chlo-e (3:09)
04. Listen to the Mocking Bird (3:08)
05. Your Cheatin' Heart (2:48)
06. Congratulations to Someone (2:50)
07. April in Portugal (2:48)
08. Ramona (2:50)
09. Basin Street Blues (6:09)
10. Otchi-Tchor-Ni-Ya (5:12)
11. Sittin' in the Sun (3:06)
12. Dummy Song (2:24)
13. 'Zat You, Santa Claus? (2:53)
14. Cool Yule (2:59)
15. Someday You'll Be Sorry (3:10)
16. The Gypsy (3:23)
17. I Can't Afford to Miss This Dream (2:44) 

This 21st chapter in the Classics Louis Armstrong chronology documents the great
jazz trumpeter's steady development into a mainstream pop vocalist with
recordings made for the Decca label between September 22, 1952, and October 22,
1953. The first four titles are among the most heavily sugared he ever recorded;
although Pops could make even "White Christmas" and "Winter Wonderland" sound
good, the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra & Chorus had a way of drenching everything in
Karo syrup. It's a pity the voices were used on "Listen to the Mockingbird," as
Louis sounds marvelous intoning the words to this old-fashioned melody,
originally published in 1855 by a Philadelphian Afro-American music instructor
named Septimus Winner. On February 23, 1953, Armstrong was in Detroit making
records with an orchestra using arrangements by Sy Oliver; his performance of
"Your Cheatin' Heart" was waxed only weeks after the sudden death of Hank
Williams. During the spring and summer of 1953 Armstrong was able to record with
a reasonable number of solid jazz players -- most importantly clarinetist Barney
Bigard, trombonist Trummy Young, tenor saxophonist Sam Taylor, pianists Joe
Bushkin and Marty Napoleon, bassist Arvell Shaw, and drummer Cozy Cole. Two
extra-long performances, "Basin Street Blues" and "Otchi-Tchor-Ni-Ya," were
recorded in Los Angeles during June of 1953 for intended inclusion in The Glenn
Miller Story, a Universal motion picture starring Jimmy Stewart and June
Allyson. Both tracks perk up halfway through with pyrotechnic drumming by Gene
Krupa. Although Bigard, Young, Shaw, and Cole were with Armstrong on the session
that took place on July 16, 1953, they had to contend with relatively corny
material and square arrangements foisted upon the world by the Jack Pleis
Orchestra. The following session, featuring a big band billed as Louis Armstrong
& the Commanders, resulted in two more Christmas tunes and three perfectly
reasonable big-band ballads, the best of which was Armstrong's own composition
"Someday You'll Be Sorry." This itinerary is a good illustration of Armstrong's
career as it stood in the early '50s, represented by a little bit of jazz
surrounded by a whole lot of pop, some of it rather overbearing. While "Someday"
is a record of which Armstrong was justifiably proud, "'Zat You, Santa Claus?"
typifies the kitschy excesses of the U.S. entertainment industry during the
Truman/Eisenhower era.
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