Portrait of the artist as a young man, 1923-1934 sound recording

Author

Louis Armstrong

Call Number

• COMPACT DISC JAZZ (CEN)

Performers

Louis Armstrong, vocals, cornet, trumpet ; with various ensembles.

Publication Information

[S.l.] : Legacy, a division of Sony Music, p1994.

Physical Description

4 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.

Notes

Compact discs.

Notes, musical selection and consultation by Dan Morgenstern for the America's Jazz Heritage program, a partnership of the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution.

Accompanying booklet (77 p. : ports.) includes index of recordings, discography, commentary, biography, selected bibliography and credits.

In container (31 cm.)

Contents

• Disc 1. Chimes blues
• Snake rag
• Tears
• Texas moaner blues
• Everybody loves my baby
• Naughty man
• Changeable Daddy of mine
• Anybody here want to try my cabbage?
• Good time flat blues
• Cake walking babies (from home)
• Pickin' on your baby
• St. Louis blues
• Sobbin' hearted blues
• Papa de da da
• Sugar foot stomp
• Alone at last
• T.N.T.
• You can't shush Katie
• Low land blues
• Gut bucket blues.

• Disc 2. Listen to Ma
• Heebie jeebies
• Cornet chop suey
• Stomp off, let's go
• The bridwell blues
• King of the Zulus
• Skid-dat-de-dat
• Big butter and egg man
• Pleadin' for the blues
• Wild man blues
• Chicago breakdown
• Potato head blues
• Weary blues
• Gully low blues
• Put 'em down blues
• Struttin' with some barbecue
• Hotter than that
• Savoy blues
• Too busy
• Skip the gutter.

• Disc 3. A Monday date
• West End blues
• Two deuces
• Symphonic raps
• Basin Street blues
• No one else but you
• Beau koo Jack
• Weather bird
• Muggles
• I must have that man
• Tight like this
• Knockin' a jug
• I can't give you anything but love
• Mahogany Hall stomp
• To be in love
• Ain't misbehavin'
• (What did I do to be so) Black and blue
• That rhythm man
• When you're smiling
• St. Louis blues (alternate take B).

• Disc 4. Song of the islands
• My sweet
• I can't believe that you're in love with me
• Blue yodel no. 9
• I'm a ding dong daddy (from Dumas)
• I'm confessin' (that I love you)
• Memories of you
• Sweethearts on parade
• When it's sleepy time down South
• Blue again
• When your lover has gone
• Lazy river
• Chinatown, my Chinatown
• Stardust
• Stardust (alternate take)
• Between the devil and the deep blue sea
• I've got the world on a string
• Basin Street blues
• On the sunny side of the street (part 1)
• On the sunny side of the street (part 2)
• Song of the vipers.