LOUIS ARMSTRONG: AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL

The greatest influence in all of American popular music, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong stands out not only as a master of the jazz trumpet but as a superlative vocalist whose unique phrasing made every song he sang his own. Beyond that, he was an ambassador of musical goodwill around the world for over fifty years, carrying with him wherever he went the exuberant spontaneity and joy that, for him, music always fostered. The ever-elegant Duke Ellington memorialized his friend, saying, “If anyone was Mister Jazz, it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.”

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1. When You’re Smiling
2. On the Sunny Side of the
3. Just a Gigolo
4. It’s Wonderful
5. Jeepers Creepers
6. Shine
7. Walkin’ My Baby Back Home
8. Basin Street Blues
9. Struttin’ With Some Barbe
10. Body and Soul
11. West End Blues
12. Ain’t Misbehavin’
13. Skid-Dat-De-Dat
14. You Rascal You

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