Lots and lots and lots of Louis Armstrong live cuts from many places. They are typically cuts used for radio broadcast back in the mid 1950s or so. This package of tunes is also available as a Boxed Set of 8 CDs including a booklet and rather short dvd for over $60! GREAT deal from Emusic and it was available weeks before the CDs were released.
A few years ago, Italian saxophonist Daniele D'Agaro was visiting Chicago, and a critic friend put on a fairly obscure record to stump him. D'Agaro listened for about three seconds, said: "Lucky." Good ears. He knows the distinctive sound of Lucky Thompson after he started hanging out in Paris and playing sumptuous tenor saxophone ballads recalling old idol Don Byas's Parisian sides. On "Solitude" and "We'll Be Together Again," from Lucky in Paris 1959, his tenor's… more »
