Louis Armstrong & His All Stars live in Berlin in 1965, part 2

It has been said time and again that from about 1954, the All Stars of Louis Armstrong is no longer the extremely high quality of early years hatte.Dem I have to agree, which does not mean that there were concerts in which they do not particularly good performance capable waren.Dieses concert is one of the really good concerts from the late period of the All Stars.

The fact is that Armstrong loved to repeatedly präsentieren.Da the same pieces without major changes every night there would be any amount of good musicians hard every time to play the same stuff and shine it.

Here, however, play some musicians only recently with Armstrong, a result, the usual routine falls despite the standard pieces, because with Tyree Glenn (trombone) and Eddie Shu (clarinet), two musicians newly kamen.Dazu tears the very good singer Jewel Brown with her Soul singing with just more than the long-standing band vocalist Velma Middleton, whose level was just dismal.

Pianist Billy Kyle, who for many years had the musical direction, and also frequently since 1942 with Armstrong playing bassist Arvell Shaw are great pillars of Ensembles.Selbst drummer Danny Barcelona had a very good day.

The pieces in the second part of course wohlbekannt.Da are "Indiana", "Tiger Rag", "When the Saints", "Black and Blue", "Royal Garden Blues" and "When it sleepy ime down South" from New Orleans -time, "Stompin 'at the Savoy" (solo Barcelona) and "I grow too old to dream" (Solo Kyle) from the swing era, "How High the Moon" (Solo Shaw) and "Lover Come Back To Me "(singing Brown) from the late period of the Swing and" I left my Heart in San Francisco "(singing Brown) and" Hello, Dolly "fresh and current.

Armstrong makes a fresh impression, but without too much play, but he was nevertheless already angeschlagen.Sein sound health and also the amount, however, was brilliant and clear in this concert.

The recording sounds very good, the live atmosphere shows us an enthusiastic GDR audience that determines a lot of money for the cards had to lie down müssen.Das recording date was March 22, 1965 at the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin.

The first part of the concert includes other hits such as "Mack the Knife", "Blueberry Hill" and "Fatihful Hussar," "Memories of You" or "Struttin 'With Some Barbacue" .However, this elsewhere later.

I'm actually with the late "All Stars" particularly glücklich.Vor all the many years first "Frontline" was not only sparse, similar since 1954 the Schlagzeug.Hier but all convinced, therefore the five star.