Archive Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0108 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: 1953 Performance at Boston College. Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Tracks 1-4: Recording of Shoji Suzuki sound recording, "Rhythm Aces Recital Yamaha Hall Japan": "Don't Be That Way"; Track 2: "The Man I Love"; Track 3: "Honeysuckle Rose"; Track 4: "Trigger's Fantasy." Tracks 5-13: Recording of Louis Armstrong concert at Boston University in 1953 (Louis sits in with B. U. student musicians): "Muskrat Ramble" (incomplete); Track 6: "Blueberry Hill"; Track 7: "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans"; Track 8: Trumpet professor Fred Berman speaks about Louis; Track 9: "Basin Street Blues"; Track 10; "La Vie En Rose"; Track 11: "Black and Blue"; Track 12: "When the Saints Go Marchin' In"; "When It's Sleepy Time Down South"/Louis says goodnight. Tracks 14-17: Recording of sound recording "Dixieland Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" (featuring Jack Delaney and Pete Fountain): Track 15: "The Sidewalks of New York"; Track 16: "Hindustan"; Track 17: "Till We Meet Again." Tracks 18-21, Disc 2, Tracks 1-12: Recording of Renato Rossini sound recording "My Guitar": Track 18: "Rescatore"; Track 19: "Guapparia"; Track 20: "Tarantella"; Track 21: "Scalinatelia"; Disc 2, Track 1: "Scalinatelia"; Track 2: "Mandolinata"; Track 3: "Sciumo"; Track 4: "O'Ciucciariello"; Track 5: "Mattinata"; Track 6: "Passione"; Track 7: "Papere"; Track 8: "Finest ache Luceva"; Track 9: "Musetta's Waltz"; Track 10: "O' Marenariello"; Track 11: "A Vela"; Track 12: "Dicitencello Vuie." Track 13: Telephone call for Doc Pugh; Louis asks, "What the hell's he calling about?" [cuts off mid-conversation]; Track 14: "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" (ending only from Boston University concert on disc 1); Track 15: "Basin Street Blues" (Louis Armstrong, 1954 recording); Track 16: "I'll Spend My Happiness with You" (unknown artist); Track 17: "You Are My Dream Come True" (same artist); Track 18: "Candy" (Johnny Mercer and Jo Stafford) (incomplete); Track 19: "On Victory Day" (Johnny Mercer); Track 20: "Perfidia" (Ahmad Jamal Trio); Track 21: "Billy Boy" (Ahmad Jamal Trio); Track 22: "Give Me the Simple Life" (unknown piano trio); Track 23: [unidentified mambo] (unknown piano trio); Track 24: [unidentified, heavily dissonant, almost free, piano performance; Louis has described as "Piano Stacato" in his tape catalog] (incomplete); Tracks 25-27: Recording of sound recording "Dixieland Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" (featuring Jack Delaney and Pete Fountain): "Who's Sorry Now"; Track 26: "Careless Love"; Track 27: "Bucktown Drag." |
Notes |
Another 1953 tape with the Boston University performance most likely from when Louis was in Boston, September 29-October 5 of that year. |
People |
Berman, Fred Delaney, Jack Fountain, Pete Jamal, Ahmad Mares, Joe Mercer, Johnny Pugh, Hazes "Doc" Rossini, Renato Stafford, Jo Suzuki, Shoji |
Search Terms |
Boston Louis Armstrong and His All Stars |
Date |
1953 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.108 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |