Louis Armstrong - New Orleans Nights '1957 [2008]

Artist	Louis Armstrong Related artists
Album name	New Orleans Nights
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Date	1957 [2008]
Genre	Jazz
Play time	00:36:04
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	146 mb (+3\%rec.)
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When Decca released New Orleans Nights on New Yearâ€™s Day 1957, it was a
compilation of six recordings made by Louis Armstrong â€“ with different
ensembles branded under the name of All Star Band â€“ that lasted 36
minutes in total.

Four of the tracks â€“ â€˜Panamaâ€™, â€˜New Orleans
Functionâ€™, â€˜Bugle Call Ragâ€™ and â€˜My Bucketâ€™s
Got a Hole in Itâ€™ were laid down in April 1950, with a high-calibre band
that included Jack Teagarden (trombone), Barney Bigard (clarinet), Earl Hines
(piano), Arvell Shaw (bass) and Cozy Cole (drums). â€˜My Bucketâ€™s Got
A Hole in Itâ€™, copyrighted by Clarence Williams, in 1933, was well known
at the time of the recording, as it had just provided a huge hit for country
singer Hank Williams. Armstrongâ€™s version is slower, more maudlin and
features vocals from Teagarden.

Another New Orleans jazz standard Armstrong heard growing up in the Crescent
City was â€˜Bugle Call Ragâ€™, which features a dazzling solo from the
ever-adept Cole. But the most memorable track is â€˜New Orleans
Functionâ€™, which comprises the traditional funeral songs â€˜Flee As A
Birdâ€™ and â€˜O Didnâ€™t He Rambleâ€™. The young Armstrong
knew funeral songs inside out, first as a second-line spectator as a boy, and
later as a musician. In fact, his final gig in New Orleans, before leaving to
join King Oliver in Chicago, was playing a funeral.

Armstrong called funeral songs â€œbeautiful musicâ€, adding â€œif
you ever witnessed a funeral in New Orleans and they have one of those brass
bands playing this funeral, you really have a bunch of musicians playing from
the heartâ€.

For the final two classic songs â€“ â€˜Struttinâ€™ With Some
Barbecueâ€™ and â€˜Basin Street Bluesâ€™, both recorded in 1954
â€“ Armstrong brought in Trummy Young (trombone), Billy Kyle (piano) and
Kenny John (drums), with Bud Freeman adding sweet tenor saxophone on
â€˜Basin Streetâ€™.

New Orleans Nights shows Armstrong recapturing some of the vitality of his early
ensembles and paying tribute to music that mattered to him.


Tracks:

01. Panama	5:04
02. New Orleans Function	6:40
a Flee As A Bird (Traditional) - March
b Oh, Didnt He Ramble - Parade And Stomp
03. Struttin With Some Barbeque	6:00
04. Basin Street Blues	5:50
05. My Buckets Got A Hole In It	3:42
06. Bugle Call Rag - Introducing Ole Miss (Traditional)	8:45