From the time of “love-ins" and tie-dyed shirts to today's current jazz renaissance, Charles Lloyd has played a part in the multifaceted history of the music. His series of Atlantic sides in the '60s transfixed a young and impressionable audience by way of an intoxicating fusion of mysticism, rock rhythms and jazz improvisation, while also launching ...

425

Article: Album Review

Louis Armstrong: Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings

Read "Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 1, 2000

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings are jazz’s Holy Grail, a venerable guide for anyone with the desire to explore the roots of this now century old art. These recordings made between 1925 and 1929 ushered out the era of acoustic recording where the soloist played into a huge cone and ushered in the ...

270

Article: Album Review

Louis Armstrong: Satch Plays Fats / Ambassador Satch / Satchmo The Great

by C. Michael Bailey
August 1, 2000

Rumination. Gigabytes of criticism, consideration, and reconsideration have been expended on every note Louis Armstrong exhaled from his trumpet. I have nothing to add other than just the facts, ma'am. These three releases have be floated as a prelude to the release of the Complete Hot Fives and Sevens later this month. All of these discs ...

526

Article: Album Review

Louis Armstrong: The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

Read "The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
August 1, 2000

July 4, 2000, Little Rock, AR. Perpetuating a Myth. It was recently determined that Louis Armstrong's birthday is August 4, 1901. Armstrong himself is on record as stating his birthday as July 4, 1900. That would make today the centenary of Armstrong's birth. It seems appropriate to accept this bit of improvisation on his birth, as ...

261

Article: Album Review

Louis Armstrong: Love Songs

by Jim Santella
May 1, 2000

Louis Armstrong’s career covered many separate chapters and cemented a solid influential framework around just about every jazzman that followed. Columbia’s ballad compilation features several facets of that career and captures “Pops" in his prime. Recorded from 1929-61 (most are from 1930 and 1955 sessions), the program teams Armstrong with Lawrence Brown, J.C. Higginbotham, and later ...