Jazz Articles about Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong: Master Of Jazz: Live In Chicago

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 1998

When many jazz musicians were hurting commercially in the early 1960s and found themselves playing to increasingly small audiences, Louis Armstrong could still fill up an auditorium or concert hall. The charismatic trumpeter/singer had nothing left to prove at that point, but he still gave 200% on stage and went that extra mile for audiences. Satch is in excellent form on this live Dixieland/swing performance, which Mobile Fidelity has reissued as a great-sounding gold audiophile CD. Joined by trombonist Trummy ...