vendredi 5 février 2021

Louis Armstrong: The California Concerts (Decca Jazz/GRP, 1951-1955).



Decca Jazz/GRP GRD-4-613 (1992). 

Louis Armstrong and the All Stars

Louis Armstrong (trompette, vocal), Jack Teagarden (trombone, vocal), Barney Bigard (clarinette), Earl Hines (piano), Arvell Shaw (contrebasse), Cozy Cole (batterie), Velma Middleton (vocal). Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 30 janvier 1951. 

Disque I: 

1. When It's Sleepy Time Down South (thème d'ouverture) (Leon Rene, Otis Rene, Clarence Muse) 0:56
2. (Back Home Again in) Indiana (Ballard MacDonald, James Hanley) 5:29
3. Some Day (Louis Armstrong) 3:58
4. Back o' Town Blues (Louis Armstrong, Luis Russell) 5:44
5. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) 5:41
6. Star Dust (Mitchell Parish, Hoagy Carmichael) 3:32
7. The Hucklebuck (Roy Alfred, Andy Gibson) 3:33
8. Honeysuckle Rose (Thomas Waller, Andy Razaf) 3:55
9. How High the Moon (Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton) 4:40
10. Just You, Just Me (Raymond Klages, Jesse Greer) 6:20
11. Bugle Blues (?) 5:38
12. My Monday Date (Earl Hines) 6:35
13. You Can Depend on Me (Charlie Carpenter, Louis Dunlop) 4:06

Disque II: 

1. That's a Plenty (Lew Pollack) 3:00
2. Body and Soul (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, John Green) 4:41
3. Big Daddy Blues (Velma Middleton, Louis Armstrong) 3:42
4. Baby, It's Cold Outside (Frank Loesser) 5:40
5. Muskrat Ramble (Edward Ory) 2:57

Louis Armstrong (trompette, vocal), Trummy Young (trombone, vocal), Barney Bigard (clarinette, vocal), Billy Kyle (piano), Arvell Shaw (contrebasse), Barrett Deems (batterie), Velma Middleton (vocal). Crescendo Club, Hollywood, 21 janvier 1955. 

6. When It's Sleepy Time Down South (Leon Rene, Otis Rene, Clarence Muse) 3:27
7. (Back Home Again in) Indiana (Ballard MacDonald, James Hanley) 4:22
8. The Gypsy (Billy Reid) 4:41
9. Some Day (Louis Armstrong) 4:54
10. Tin Roof Blues (Leon Roppolo, Paul Mares, Benny Pollack, George Brunies, Mel Stitzel, Walter Melrose) 5:12
11. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It (Clarence Williams) 3:07
12. Rose Room (Harry Williams, Art Hickman) 6:07
13. Perdido (Juan Tizol) 3:53
14. Blues for Bass (Arvell Shaw) 4:23
15. Me and Brother Bill (Louis Armstrong) 3:34

Disque III: 

1. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You) (Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay) 3:36
2. 'tain't What You Do (It's the Way That Cha Do It) (Sy Oliver, James Young) 2:54
3. Lover, Come Back to Me (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmond Romberg) 3:11
4. Don't Fence Me In (Cole Porter) 5:20
5. Basin Street Blues (Spencer Williams) 5:16
6. When It's Sleepy Time Down South (thème de fermeture) (Leon Rene, Otis Rene, Clarence Muse) 1:56
7. Medley: Shadrack (Robert MacGimsey) / When the Saints Go Marching In (Katherine Purvis, James Black) 7:04
8. C'est Si Bon (Seelen, Betti) 2:25
9. The Whiffenpoof Song (Minningerode, Pomeroy, Galloway, Vallee) 5:10
10. Rockin' Chair (Hoagy Carmichael) 4:15
11. Twelfth Street Rag (Euday Bowman) 7:33
12. Muskrat Ramble (Edward Ory) 5:52
13. St. Louis Blues (W.C. Handy) 3:27
14. The Man I Love (George & Ira Gershwin) 4:45
15. Back o' Town Blues (Louis Armstrong, Luis Russell) 5:07
16. Old Man Mose (première prise) (Louis Armstrong, Zilner Randolph) 3:16

Disque IV: 

1. Jeepers Creepers (Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren) 3:34
2. Margie (Benny Davis, Con Conrad, J. Russel Robinson) 3:50
3. Big Mama's Back in Town (Velma Middleton) 3:07
4. Big Butter and Egg Man (Sidney Clare, Cliff Friend, Joseph Santly) 4:03
5. Stompin' at the Savoy (Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb) 3:41
6. When It's Sleepy Time Down South (thème d'ouverture) (Leon Rene, Otis Rene, Clarence Muse) 2:08
7. Struttin' with Some Barbecue (Louis Armstrong, Lil Hardin) 5:43
8. (Up a) Lazy River (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin) 4:10
9. Old Man Mose (deuxième prise) avec faux départ (Louis Armstrong, Zilner Randolph) 4:01
10. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It (deuxième prise) (Clarence Williams) 2:58
11. 'S Wonderful (George & Ira Gershwin) 7:24
12. Big Mama's Back in Town (deuxième prise) (Velma Middleton) 3:17
13. Since I Fell for You (Buddy Johnson) 4:02
14. Mop Mop (?) 2:55
15. When It's Sleepy Time Down South (finale) (Leon Rene, Otis Rene, Clarence Muse) 2:50

Réédition produite par Orrin Keepnews. 
Producteurs exécutifs: Dave Grusin & Larry Rosen. 
Notes de pochette: Dan Morgenstern. 
Transferts digitaux et restauration audio par Erick Labson aux MCA Recording Studios, utilisant le système NoNoise de Sonic Solutions. 
Post-production pour la réédition par Michael Landy, Joseph Doughney & Adam Zelinka à The Review Room/NYC. 
Coordination de la production pour GRP: Michael Pollard, assisté de Doreen Kalcich. 
Photographies de la pochette et du dos: Philippe Halsman. 
Photographies noir & blanc: Institute of Jazz Studies et la Frank Driggs Collection. 
Design graphique: Dan Serrano, David Gibb, Andy Ruggirello, Scott Johnson & Sonny Mediana, assistés de Emili Bogin. 
Directeur créatif pour GRP: Andy Baltimore. 

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