3-CD SET

INCLUDES 18 RARE BONUS TRACKS - 4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

This release presents the complete original two-volume album Louis Armstrong at the Crescendo (Decca DL 8168/69) plus all other existing material from that evening's sets. The 1955 All Stars included well known figures such as trombonist Trummy Young, clarinettist Barney Bigard, and pianist Billy Kyle.

As a bonus, various broadcast performances by the exact same formation of the All Stars captured live at the Basin Street Club in New York the previous year, as well as three rarities: two film soundtrack songs taped in Copenhagen in 1959, and a 1956 commercial spot which presents Louis promoting a brand of beer.

LOUIS ARMSTRONG & HIS ALL STARS:

LOUIS ARMSTRONG, trumpet & vocals
TRUMMY YOUNG, trombone & vocals
BARNEY BIGARD, clarinet
BILLY KYLE, piano
ARVELL SHAW, bass
BARRETT DEEMS, drums
VELMA MIDDLETON, vocals

Live at the Crescendo Club, Los Angeles, January 21, 1955.

BONUS TRACKS (CD3, 6-23):
CD3 (6-20): Same personnel as above.
NBC Broadcasts from the Basin Street Club, New York, August-September 1954.

CD3 (21-22): Louis Armstrong (tp, vcl), Trummy Young (tb), Peanuts Hucko (cl),
Billy Kyle (p), Mort Herbert (b), Danny Barcelona (d).
Film soundtrack for Kaerlighedens Melodi Copenhagen, Denmark, January 26, 1959.

CD3 (23): Rheingold Beer spot. Louis Armstrong (tp, vcl), Trummy Young (tb), Edmond Hall (cl), Billy Kyle (p), Squire Gersh (b), Barrett Deems (d).
Reeves Sound Studios, New York, October 8, 1956.

INCLUDES 20-PAGE BOOKLET

CD 1: Total Time: 75:46

01 When It's Sleepy Time Down South
02 Back Home Again In Indiana
03 The Gypsy
04 Someday You'll Be Sorry
05 Tin Roof Blues
06 The Bucket's Got A Hole In It
07 Rose Room
08 Perdido
09 Blues For Bass
10 Me And Brother Bill
11 When You're Smiling
12 ‘Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It)
13 Lover Come Back To Me
14 Don't Fence Me In
15 Basin Street Blues
16 When It's Sleepy Time Down South #2
17 Medley: Shadrack / When The Saints Go Marching In
18 C'est Si Bon

CD 2: Total time: 77:10

01 The Whiffenpoof Song
02 Rockin' Chair
03 Twelfth Street Rag
04 Muskrat Ramble
05 St. Louis Blues
06 The Man I Love
07 Back O'town Blues
08 Old Man Mose
09 Jeepers Creepers
10 Margie
11 Big Mama's Back In Town
12 Big Butter And Egg Man
13 Stompin' At The Savoy
14 When It's Sleepy Time Down South #3
15 Struttin' With Some Barbecue
16 Lazy River
17 Old Man Mose #2
18 The Bucket's Got A Hole In It #2

CD 3: Total Time: 74:56

01 ‘S Wonderful
02 Big Mama's Back In Town #2
03 Since I Fell For You
04 Mop Mop
05 When It's Sleepy Time Down South #4
06 When It's Sleepy Time Down South
07 Indiana
08 The Gypsy
09 Lover Come Back To Me
10 When It's Sleepy Time Down South
11 Someday You'll Be Sorry
12 Big Butter And Egg Man
13 Muskrat Ramble
14 When It's Sleepy Time Down South
15 Struttin' With Some Barbecue
16 Big Butter And Egg Man
17 When It's Sleepy Time Down South
18 Tea For Two
19 The Dummy Song
20 Perdido
21 Struttin' With Some Barbecue
22 The Formula For Love
23 Ain't Misbehavin' [1956 Beer Commercial]