Title: In Scandinavia Artist: Louis Armstrong Label: Storyville Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 717101860227 Genre: Jazz, Jazz Vocals Release Date: 2007-06-26 Number of Discs: 4 Additional Details: BOXED SET
Over the course of his long and illustrious career Louis Armstrong visited Scandinavia on no less than nine occasions to both tour and record. Amongst the wealth of fabulous recordings he produced on the visits are six tracks that are said to be the world’s first live jazz recordings, recorded in Denmark and Sweden during the 1930s. These and many other recordings, some previously unreleased, have been meticulously restored for this 4 CD Armstrong collectors' set. Each CD is over 70 minutes of music and is accompanied by a booklet including many unique photographs and comprehensive liner notes from renowned Armstrong authority, Gosta Hagglof.
Tracks: 1.1 I Cover the Waterfront 1.2 Dinah 1.3 Tiger Rag 1.4 Chinatown My Chinatown 1.5 You Rascal You 1.6 On the Sunny Side of the Street 1.7 Twelfth Street Rag 1.8 Steak Face 1.9 When It's Sleepy Time Down South 1.10 Indiana 1.11 A Kiss to Build a Dream on 1.12 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans 1.13 Coquette 14. Lover Come Back to Me 1.14 Can Anyone Explain? 1.15 After You've Gone 1.16 Russian Lullaby 1.17 Bugle Blues/Ole Miss Total Time: 76:41 2.1 When It's Sleepy Time Down South 2.2 New Orleans Function 2.3 Pennies from Heaven 2.4 Tin Roof Blues 2.5 Muskrat Ramble 2.6 Basin Street Blues 2.7 Big Daddy Blues 2.8 You're Just in Love 2.9 Stompin' at the Savoy 2.10 On the Sunny Side of the Street 2.11 High Society 2.12 When It's Sleepy Time Down South 2.13 Indiana 2.14 The Gypsy 2.15 Pretty Little Missy 2.16 Struttin' with Some Barbecuetotal Time: 76.39 3.1 When the Saints Go Marchin' in 3.2 Basin Street Blues 3.3 Tin Roof Blues 3.4 Sweet Georgia Brown 3.5 St. Louis Blues 3.6 When It's Sleepy Time Down South 3.7 Intro (The All Stars Introduced By Lucille Armstrong) 3.8 When It's Sleepy Time Down South 3.9 A Kiss to Build a Dream on 3.10 When It's Sleepy Time Down South 3.11 When It's Sleepy Time Down South 3.12 Indiana 3.13 I Get Ideas 3.14 Tenderly / You'll Never Walk Alone 3.15 The Faithful Husar 3.16 Old Man River 3.17 Mack the Knife 3.18 After You've Gone 3.19 Ole Misstotal Time 75.06 4.1 Basin Street Blues 4.2 Tiger Rag (Plusfour Encores) 4.3 Now You Has Jazz 4.4 Christopher Columbus 4.5 Black and Blue/Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans 4.6 The Bucket's Got a Hole in It 4.7 Kokomo 4.8 Struttin' with Some Barbecue 4.9 Royal Garden Blues 4.10 When the Saints Go Marchin' in 4.11 Mack the Knife 4.12 Back O'Town Blues 4.13 Ole Miss 4.14 St James Infirmary 4.15 Cabaret 4.16 You'll Never Walk Alone
