Classics and Rarities: Milestones of a Jazz Legend

Compilation by Louis Armstrong

Released 7 December 2018

Tracklist

  • CD 1: The Louis Armstrong Story - Volume 1 / The Louis Armstrong Story - Volume 2 (1956)
  • 1
    Muskrat Ramble
    2:33
  • 2
    Heebie Jeebies
    2:54
  • 3
    Gut Bucket Blues
    2:42
  • 4
    Skid-Dat-De-Dat
    3:05
  • 5
    Yes! I'm In The Barrel
    2:39
  • 6
    Cornet Chop Suey
    2:57
  • 7
    Struttin' With Some Barbecue
    3:06
  • 8
    I'm Not Rough
    3:04
  • 9
    The Last Time
    3:29
  • 10
    Got No Blues
    3:25
  • 11
    Hotter Than That
    3:04
  • 12
    Ory's Creole Trombones
    3:05
  • 13
    Potato Head Blues
    2:58
  • 14
    Wild Man Blues
    3:03
  • 15
    S.O.L. Blues
    2:53
  • 16
    Gully Low Blues
    3:16
  • 17
    Melancholy Blues
    3:08
  • 18
    Weary Blues
    3:00
  • 19
    Twelfth Street Rag
    3:04
  • 20
    Willie The Weeper
    3:08
  • 21
    Keyhole Blues
    3:28
  • 22
    That's When I'll Come Back To You
    2:57
  • 23
    Alligator Crawl
    3:03
  • 24
    Chicago Breakdown
    3:21
  • CD 2: The Louis Armstrong Story - Volume 3 (1956) / Lil Armstrong - Satchmo and Me (1957)
  • 1
    Basin Street Blues
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    3:17
  • 2
    Weather Bird
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    2:47
  • 3
    No, Papa, No
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    2:53
  • 4
    Muggles
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    2:52
  • 5
    St. James Infirmary
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    3:14
  • 6
    Tight Like This
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    3:14
  • 7
    West End Blues
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    3:21
  • 8
    Skip The Gutter
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    3:09
  • 9
    Two Deuces
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    2:58
  • 10
    Sugar Foot Strut
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    3:21
  • 11
    Squeeze Me
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    3:25
  • 12
    Don't Jive Me
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    2:49
  • 13
    Learning The Piano
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    4:07
  • 14
    Early Life In Chicago
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    3:06
  • 15
    With The New Orleans Creole Jazz Band
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    3:33
  • 16
    King Oliver Appears On The Scene . . . With Louis
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    6:49
  • 17
    First Recording Date
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    1:40
  • 18
    Courtship
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    1:08
  • 19
    The Young Louis
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    3:05
  • 20
    Marriage
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    3:03
  • 21
    First Trumpet, At Last
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    2:29
  • 22
    With Fletcher Henderson In New York
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    3:52
  • 23
    The Hot Five
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    2:35
  • 24
    Return To New Orleans
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    1:04
  • 25
    The End Of A Marriage
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    1:12
  • 26
    Epilogue
    Louis Armstrong & Lil Armstrong
    2:24
  • CD 3: Satchmo - A Musical Biography Volume 1 (1957)
  • 1
    Dipper Mouth Blues
    4:41
  • 2
    Canal Street Blues
    3:37
  • 3
    High Society
    4:20
  • 4
    All The Wrongs You've Done To Me
    3:37
  • 5
    Everybody Loves My Baby
    4:03
  • 6
    Mandy Make Up Your Mind
    2:25
  • 7
    See See Rider
    4:31
  • 8
    Reckless Blues
    3:06
  • 9
    Court House Blues
    3:15
  • 10
    Trouble In Min
    3:09
  • 11
    New Orleans Function: Flee As A Bird - Oh, Didn't He Ramble
    7:03
  • 12
    Gut Bucket Blues
    4:20
  • 13
    Cornet Chop Suey
    3:30
  • 14
    Heebie Jeebies
    2:57
  • 15
    Georgia Grind
    3:42
  • 16
    Muskrat Ramble
    7:00
  • 17
    King Of The Zulus
    4:35
  • 18
    Snag It
    4:00
  • 19
    Wild Man Blues
    4:44
  • CD 4: Satchmo - A Musical Biography Volume 2 (1957)
  • 1
    Potato Head Blues
    2:49
  • 2
    Weary Blues
    3:25
  • 3
    Gully Low Blues
    4:55
  • 4
    Struttin' With Some Barbeque
    6:30
  • 5
    Hotter Than That
    3:45
  • 6
    Two Deuces
    3:52
  • 7
    My Monday Date
    6:51
  • 8
    Basin Street Blues
    6:13
  • 9
    Knockin' A Jug
    4:14
  • 10
    I Can't Give You Anything But Love
    4:51
  • 11
    Mahagony Hall Stomp
    4:16
  • 12
    Some Of These Days
    3:41
  • 13
    When You're Smiling
    4:48
  • 14
    Song Of The Islands
    4:32
  • 15
    I Can't Believe That You Are In Love With Me
    3:51
  • 16
    Dear Old Southland
    4:17
  • 17
    Exactly Like You
    4:37
  • CD 5: Satchmo - A Musical Biography Volume 3 (1957) / Duke Ellington feat. Louis Armstrong - Paris Blues (1961)
  • 1
    If I Could Be With You
    3:35
  • 2
    Body And Soul
    5:21
  • 3
    Memories Of You
    3:58
  • 4
    You Rascal You
    3:36
  • 5
    When It's Sleepy Time Down South
    3:51
  • 6
    I Surrender Dear
    5:02
  • 7
    Them There Eyes
    3:28
  • 8
    Up A Lazy River
    4:11
  • 9
    Georgia On My Mind
    3:18
  • 10
    That's My Home
    3:58
  • 11
    Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train
    3:35
  • 12
    On The Sunny Side Of The Street
    6:11
  • 13
    Take The 'a' Train
    2:14
  • 14
    Battle Royal
    4:31
  • 15
    Birdie Jungle
    1:59
  • 16
    Mood Indigo
    3:15
  • 17
    Autumnal Suite
    3:14
  • 18
    Nite
    3:32
  • 19
    Wild Man Moore
    1:49
  • 20
    Paris Stairs
    3:05
  • 21
    Guitar Amour
    2:02
  • 22
    Paris Blues
    3:22
  • CD 6: Louis Armstrong & The All-Stars - New Orleans Nights (1957) / Louis Armstrong & The All-Stars - I Love Jazz (1962)
  • 1
    Panama
    5:04
  • 2
    Flee As A Bird - Oh, Didn't He Ramble
    6:40
  • 3
    Struttin' With Some Barbeque
    6:00
  • 4
    Basin Street Blues
    5:50
  • 5
    My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
    3:42
  • 6
    Bugle Call Rag
    8:45
  • 7
    I Love Jazz
    2:27
  • 8
    Twelfth Street Rag
    5:44
  • 9
    Basin Street Blues
    7:20
  • 10
    Skokiaan (South African Song)
    3:50
  • 11
    Frog-I-More Rag
    2:28
  • 12
    Otchi-Tchor-Ni-Ya
    7:29
  • 13
    Tenderly - You'll Never Walk Alone
    7:24
  • 14
    Pretty Little Missy
    3:31
  • CD 7: The Real Ambassadors (1962) / Look magazine ad
  • 1
    Everybody's Comin'
    1:51
  • 2
    Cultural Exchange
    4:42
  • 3
    Good Reviews
    2:09
  • 4
    Remember Who You Are
    2:33
  • 5
    My One Bad Habit
    2:41
  • 6
    Summer Song
    3:18
  • 7
    King For A Day
    3:41
  • 8
    Blow Satchmo
    0:48
  • 9
    The Real Ambassador
    3:12
  • 10
    In The Lurch
    2:32
  • 11
    One Moment Worth Years
    4:22
  • 12
    They Say I Look Like God
    5:30
  • 13
    Since Love Had Its Way
    2:34
  • 14
    I Didn't Know Until You Told Me
    3:02
  • 15
    Swing Bells - Blow Satchmo - Finale
    6:06
  • 16
    Music To Shave By
    3:49
  • CD 8: I've Got The World on a String (1960) / Louis and The Good Book (1958)
  • 1
    When Your Lover Has Gone
    4:41
  • 2
    You're The Top
    2:33
  • 3
    You Turned The Tables On Me
    2:37
  • 4
    Don't Get Around Much Anymore
    3:40
  • 5
    Little Girl Blue
    5:44
  • 6
    Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
    4:54
  • 7
    We'll Be Together Again
    4:06
  • 8
    I've Got The World On A String
    2:52
  • 9
    Do Nothing 'til You Hear From Me
    4:13
  • 10
    I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
    4:04
  • 11
    Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
    3:04
  • 12
    Shadrack
    2:47
  • 13
    Go Down Moses
    3:41
  • 14
    Rock My Soul
    2:58
  • 15
    Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
    2:34
  • 16
    On My Way
    3:06
  • 17
    Down By The Riverside
    3:12
  • 18
    Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
    3:11
  • 19
    Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
    3:30
  • 20
    Jonah And The Whale
    2:41
  • 21
    Didn't It Rain
    2:51
  • CD 9: Louis and the Angels (1957) / Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong - Bing & Satchmo (1960)
  • 1
    When Did You Leave Heaven?
    3:19
  • 2
    You're A Heavenly Thing
    3:06
  • 3
    I Married An Angel
    3:42
  • 4
    A Sinner Kissed An Angel
    3:33
  • 5
    Angela Mia
    3:13
  • 6
    Angel Child
    2:56
  • 7
    And The Angels Sing
    3:44
  • 8
    Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread)
    3:23
  • 9
    String Along With You
    2:43
  • 10
    Angel
    3:23
  • 11
    The Prisoner's Song
    3:43
  • 12
    Goodnight, Angel
    2:56
  • 13
    Muskat Ramble
    3:03
  • 14
    Sugar (That Sugar Baby O' Mine)
    5:13
  • 15
    The Preacher
    2:21
  • 16
    Dardanella
    2:50
  • 17
    Let's Sing Like A Dixieland Band
    2:21
  • 18
    Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
    3:09
  • 19
    Brother Bill
    3:01
  • 20
    Little Ol' Tune
    3:07
  • 21
    At The Jazz Band Ball
    3:02
  • 22
    Rocky Mountain Moon
    3:41
  • 23
    Bye Bye Blues
    3:44
  • CD 10: Satchmo Plays King Oliver (1960) / Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers (1954)
  • 1
    St. James Infirmary (Gambler's Blues)
    5:01
  • 2
    I Want A Big Butter & Egg Man
    3:49
  • 3
    I Ain't Got Nobody
    4:04
  • 4
    Panama
    4:11
  • 5
    Dr. Jazz
    2:45
  • 6
    Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight
    3:42
  • 7
    Frankie And Johnny
    4:04
  • 8
    I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of This Jelly Roll
    4:07
  • 9
    Drop That Sack
    2:55
  • 10
    Jelly Roll Blues
    2:55
  • 11
    Old Kentucky Home
    4:38
  • 12
    Chimes Blues
    3:31
  • 13
    Carry Me Back To Old Virginny
    3:01
  • 14
    Darling Nelly Gray
    2:48
  • 15
    In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree
    2:22
  • 16
    The Old Folks At Home
    2:25
  • 17
    The Flat Foot Floogie
    3:01
  • 18
    The Song Is Ended (But The Melody Lingers On)
    3:12
  • 19
    My Walking Stick
    2:44
  • 20
    W.P.A
    2:52
  • 21
    Boog-It
    2:39
  • 22
    Cherry
    2:48
  • 23
    Marie
    2:25

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