S&D: Louis Armstrong

heh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWyH85LK-lI&list=UUOIbeYUX2aig&index=44
kind of like this, anyone heard his country album? guess he was riding ray charles' coattails there?

HB Louis Armstrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmmFKu4FEbc

Just picked this up the other day. Takes a detailed look at Armstrong's recordings during his early period and is getting rave reviews. The author, Thomas Brothers, also wrote Louis Armstrong's New Orleans.
http://manwithoutqualities.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/louis-armstrong_master-of-modernism.jpg?w=650

You gotta hear this — original metal "mother" of "Ain't Misbehavin'" from 1929. Sounds glorious. Not sure if you can't buy it anywhere.
http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/the-cleanest-recordings-of-1920s-louis-armstrong-songs-youll-ever-hear.html

very cool

damn these really do sound amazing!

Omg

his home/museum in Corona, Queens is a must-visit btw.

yeah i gotta make it out there next time i'm in nyc

but seriously, these "metal mother" transfers ... are there more to come? can't get over how alive they sound.

Here’s the word from Nick Dellow, who supplied the transfer of both songs, as posted on YouTube:

There are still metals parts for pre-war Victor, Columbia and OKeh (from 1926) 78 rpm recordings residing within Sony's vaults in New York, though I have no idea exactly how much is left - probably more than one might think. Very occasionally, they are used as the source material for CD reissues, but the results vary! The 1952 date on the Odeon cover is probably the date the metal mother was deleted, as by then Odeon - in line with everyone else - had started to move over to 45 rpm and 33 rpm microgroove. 78s were issued up until the late 1950s in Europe and the USA, depending on the artist and sales levels....and were still being pressed in India in the early 1960s (including The Beatles early EMI singles). Thanks to everyone for their comments about my transfers and restoration work on these metal mothers.

I've been living with the columbia hot 5s & 7s for over 20 years now. Never even thought to look for better remasters. Along with the 60s Stones, those are my favorite recordings of all-time.
"metal mothers" do sound great. Can't wait to play them on some nice speakers. I hope there's more to come. After reading this thread, I'm really torn about checking the JSP collection.

Louis Jordan >>>>>>>> Louis Armstrong

Man, that's a ranking I can't make, love them both dearly. Add in Prima for the three Louies.

Oh man, I want this Bear Family Louis Prima box really badly.

I've been living with the columbia hot 5s & 7s for over 20 years now. Never even thought to look for better remasters.
Columbia did finally get its act together and released a decent-sounding set at one point. Depends on what release you own. I would suggest checking out the JSPs anyway.

This might be helpful.
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/louis-armstrong-hot-fives-and-sevens-the-best-one.47579/

yes, thanks for that. I have a couple JSP boxes that I was very happy with. I have a 20s New Orleans various, and I have the '26-'29 Ellington.
Now that I've checked out their catalogue, I think I would like 15-20 more. At that price I can't go wrong checking it out. I can always sell the version I like least.

via JCLC

Thanks to a $2.7 million grant from Robert F. Smith’s Fund II Foundation, The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, NY is digitizing thousands of valuable artifacts of the late jazz legend, including photographs, letters, audio, newspaper clippings, video, personal papers, sheet music and scrapbooks. Soon, these newly resurfaced artifacts will be available online through the The Louis Armstrong House Museum’s Research Collections. Deluxe Media Recall made the move to digitize the collection to make Armstrong’s living legacy readily available to fans worldwide.

The collection will include a scrapbook compilation of Armstrong’s early days in New York, hundreds of hours of never-before-heard concert recordings, spoken word tapes, video concert footage and photographs of the trumpeter in his Queens home.

http://www.offbeat.com/news/louis-armstrong-house-museum/

The JSP 1930-32 big band set is also great. I actually prefer it to the Hot 5s and 7s.

the digital trove

https://collections.louisarmstronghouse.org/

So the NY Times article on this mentions reel-to-reel mixtapes Armstrong loved to make, jumping from opera to his Hot Fives shellac to Charlie Parker to the Beatles, sometimes injected with his commentary. Are those up there? 'Cause man would I like to hear them.

I haven't dug in yet but the article sure made it sound like they digitized everything

https://www.wbgo.org/post/deep-dive-putting-louis-armstrong-context#stream/0

every single move here is mad genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUcQESVYlec