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Release Date: 2014Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Tracks 1-1 to 1-18, 2-1 to 2-18, 2-1 to 2-5 Recorded Live At The Crescendo Club, Los Angeles, January 21, 1955Tracks 3-6 to 3-20 NBC Broadcasts from the Basin Street Club, New York, August, September 1954
Tracks 3-21, 3-22 Film Soundtrack for Kaerlighedens Melodi, Copenhagen, Denmark, January 26, 1959
Track 3-23 Rheingold Beer Spot, Reeves Studios, New York October 8, 1956
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, we have added 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.