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Artist:
Louis Armstrong
Title:
King Louis

Info: This set is reissued in brand new slimline rack-friendly packaging which keeps all of the detail and production values of the original PROPERBOX sets but with each CD packaged in mini LP sleeves. The recordings included in this box set made Louis Armstrong the most important and influential jazz musician of the 20th century. They are still regarded as milestones of recorded jazz more than 75 years after being recorded. "Louis has bestowed so many gifts upon the world that it is almost impossible to assess in which area his definitive impact has been most felt. My vote would be for his tremendous talent of communication. As profoundly creative as his trumpet ability is I would place this in a secondary position. He was revered mostly by other professionals whereas his gravel-voiced singing has carried his message far and wide to regions where not only was the music little known the language foreign but where there also was the further barrier of a political system having labelled jazz as decadent. But when Satchmo sang the entire picture changed. People saw the truth".< I> - Rex Stewart. Disc 1 'The Sideman' (26 tracks 1923-1927) Disc 2 'The Hot Fives Vol 1' (25 tracks 1925-1926) Disc 3 'The Hot Fives

Label: Proper Boxes

This item was added to our catalog on Thursday 10 April, 2008