S&D: Louis Armstrong

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