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1959 - Louis Armstrong and his All Stars - Palais de l'Unesco - Beyrouth (Liban).

Louis Armstrong (tp, voc), Trummy Young (tb), Peanuts Hucko (cl), Billy Kyle (p), Mort Herbert (b), Danny Barcelona (dr), Velma Middleton (voc)

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The World's Greatest Jazz Band: Traditional Jazz Lived in the 1970s

We tend to think of the 1970s as a low point in jazz history but we still had a number of mainstream veterans out there to deliver the swing. Michael Steinman reminds us of one such group: the World’s Greatest Jazz Band.

-Scott Wenzel

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1959 - Louis Armstrong and his All Stars - Palais de l'Unesco - Beyrouth (Liban).

Louis Armstrong (tp, voc), Trummy Young (tb), Peanuts Hucko (cl), Billy Kyle (p), Mort Herbert (b), Danny Barcelona (dr), Velma Middleton (voc)

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1959 - Louis Armstrong & his All Stars - Belgian tour (Liege, Brussels, Ostende)

Louis Armstrong (tp, voc), Trummy Young (tb), Peanuts Hucko (cl), Billy Kyle (p), Mort Herbert (b), Danny Barcelona (dr), Velma Middleton (voc)

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Peanuts Hucko on the Lawrence Welk show, 1970s

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Jack Teagarden's Big Eight: A Jam Session at Victor: 1947

There was a “Jam Session At Victor,” but that was the artist credit given to Tommy Dorsey, Fats Waller, Bunny Berigan and Dick McDonough when they immortalized Honeysuckle Rose and Blues back in 1937. This record here, made a decade later, has a fabulous group assembled by Teagarden, propelled by the drumming of Davey Tough, with great solos by Peanuts Hucko, Max Kaminsky, Gene Schroeder and the rarely heard tenorman Cliff Strickland. Chuck Wayne is the guitarist and Jack Lesberg round out this magnificent cast on a real treasure.

-Scott Wenzel

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Louis Armstrong | Satchmo Plays King Oliver

Louis Armstrong did a few different ‘Louis Armstrong Plays _____’ albums, including tributes to Fats Waller and W. C. Handy.  I don’t think this one is quite as well-known as the other two, but it’s still very, very good.  I remarked to a few people on listening to this that sometimes it’s hard to tell whether I’m experiencing an artist finally ‘clicking’ with me, or whether it’s just a really good album, and I guess this might be a little of both.  The music on this album is timeless and joyous, performed with an abundance of character and wit that makes it come across as effortless and off-the-cuff, like the musicians are all just having a great time in the studio and you’re in on the joke with them.  The sound quality is really good, too, and the selection of tunes is fantastic.  St. James Infirmary is a fantastic opener, and Big Butter And Egg Man is another New Orleans classic I’ve heard a few times before.  Some of the ones I hadn’t heard, or was less familiar with, included the classic ballad Frankie And Johnny, performed here with just Louis’s vocals and Billy Kyle’s piano (and maybe Mort Herbert’s bass?  kind of hard to tell) with the piano’s honky-tonk factor dialed up as high as possible.  I also loved his take on Stephen Foster’s My Old Kentucky Home, which captures the love, nostalgia, and pain of the song’s lyrics beautifully.  The track High Society was another standout, with a constantly evolving sound.  The other tracks were all, of course, very solid, but those were my favorites.  I love it!

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Eddie Condon Session: In the Groove

This outstanding clip comes from an Atlantic Records rehearsal sometime in 1949, and was edited for a March Of Time newsreel short titled It’s In The Groove. It features an Eddie Condon session that never was released and may have just been staged for the March Of Time cameras. Musicians left to right include Joe Bushkin, Bobby Hackett, Peanuts Hucko, Will Bradley, Buddy Rich (a guest on Condon’s NBC TV show at the time), Condon and Jack Lesberg. Ahmet Ertegun is at the far right behind the glass. Fascinating stuff!

-Scott Wenzel

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