“Satchmo”: Ambassador of Jazz

Compilation by Louis Armstrong

Released 9 August 2011

Tracklist

  • CD 1: Stop Off, Let’s Go (1923–1927)
  • 1
    Just Gone
    King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
    2:44
    4.0 ★
  • 2
    Chimes Blues
    King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
    2:53
  • 3
    Dipper Mouth Blues (aka Sugar Foot Stomp)
    King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
    2:15
  • 4
    Tears
    King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
    3:08
  • 5
    New Orleans Stomp
    King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
    2:58
  • 6
    Shanghai Shuffle
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:50
  • 7
    Copenhagen
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:59
  • 8
    Everybody Loves My Baby
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:52
  • 9
    Cake Walking Babies (From Home)
    Eva Taylor with Clarence Williams' Blue Five
    2:57
  • 10
    St. Louis Blues
    Bessie Smith
    3:11
  • 11
    Sugar Foot Stomp
    Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
    2:50
  • 12
    Santa Claus Blues
    Eva Taylor with Clarence Williams' Blue Five
    2:37
  • 13
    My Heart
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    2:24
  • 14
    Gut Bucket Blues
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    2:43
  • 15
    Georgia Grind
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    2:34
  • 16
    Heebie Jeebies
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    2:53
  • 17
    Cornet Chop Suey
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    2:56
  • 18
    Muskrat Ramble
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    2:30
  • 19
    Stomp Off, Let’s Go
    Erskine Tate’s Vendome Orchestra
    2:56
  • 20
    He Likes It Slow
    Butterbeans & Susie
    2:42
  • 21
    New Orleans Stomp
    Johnny Dodds’ Black Bottom Stompers
    2:44
  • 22
    Chicago Breakdown
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
    3:19
  • 23
    Potato Head Blues
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
    2:56
  • 24
    Hotter Than That
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    3:02
  • 25
    Savoy Blues
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    3:28
  • CD 2: Hot Stuff! (1928–1931)
  • 1
    West End Blues
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    3:19
    3.0 ★
  • 2
    Skip the Gutter
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    3:08
  • 3
    Symphonic Raps
    Carroll Dickerson’s Savoyagers
    3:13
  • 4
    Weather Bird
    2:46
  • 5
    Muggles
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:50
  • 6
    Tight Like This
    Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five
    3:13
    3.0 ★
  • 7
    Knockin’ a Jug
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:26
  • 8
    I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
    Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five
    3:23
  • 9
    Mahogany Hall Stomp
    Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five
    3:16
  • 10
    Ain’t Misbehavin’
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:22
    4.7 ★
  • 11
    Black and Blue
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:09
  • 12
    When You’re Smiling
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:52
  • 13
    After You’ve Gone
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:23
  • 14
    Rockin’ Chair
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra with vocal by Hoagy Carmichael
    3:22
  • 15
    St. Louis Blues
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:02
  • 16
    Blue Turning Grey Over You
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:29
  • 17
    Tiger Rag
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:11
  • 18
    I’m a Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:09
  • 19
    Blue Yodel No. 9
    Lil Hardin Armstrong
    2:40
  • 20
    Body and Soul
    Louis Armstrong & His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:19
  • 21
    You’re Lucky to Me
    Louis Armstrong & His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:26
  • 22
    Memories of You
    Louis Armstrong & His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:13
  • 23
    Sweethearts on Parade
    Louis Armstrong & His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:18
  • 24
    When Your Lover Has Gone
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:08
  • CD 3: Swing That Music (1931–1938)
  • 1
    Lazy River
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 2
    Chinatown, My Chinatown
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:16
  • 3
    Star Dust
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:34
  • 4
    You Can Depend on Me
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:18
  • 5
    Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:58
  • 6
    All of Me
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:57
  • 7
    Lawd, You Made the Night Too Long
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:24
  • 8
    That’s My Home
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:13
  • 9
    I’ve Got the World on a String
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:17
  • 10
    I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:04
  • 11
    Basin Street Blues
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:26
  • 12
    Laughin’ Louie
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:30
  • 13
    I’m in the Mood for Love
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:09
  • 14
    Old Man Mose
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:32
  • 15
    Thanks a Million
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:38
  • 16
    Shoe Shine Boy
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:20
  • 17
    Ev’ntide
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 18
    Swing That Music
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:53
  • 19
    The Skeleton in the Closet
    Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Louis Armstrong
    3:08
  • 20
    On a Coconut Island
    Louis Armstrong with Sam Koki & The Polynesians
    3:09
  • 21
    The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)
    Louis Armstrong with The Mills Brothers
    2:23
  • 22
    Jubilee
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:37
  • 23
    Struttin’ With Some Barbecue
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:00
  • 24
    I Double Dare You
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:57
  • 25
    When the Saints Go Marching In
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:44
  • CD 4: That Lucky Old Sun (1938–1949)
  • 1
    Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
    Louis Armstrong with The Decca Mixed Chorus
    3:10
  • 2
    Jeepers Creepers
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:40
    4.0 ★
  • 3
    I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You)
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:16
  • 4
    Wolverine Blues
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:19
  • 5
    Perdido Street Blues
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:06
    3.0 ★
  • 6
    I Cover the Waterfront
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:16
  • 7
    When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:13
  • 8
    I Never Knew
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:47
  • 9
    I Wonder
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    2:59
  • 10
    Snafu
    Esquire All-American Award Winners
    4:14
  • 11
    You Won’t Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)
    Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald with Bob Haggart’s Orchestra
    2:55
    4.0 ★
  • 12
    Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
    Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven
    3:02
  • 13
    Pennies From Heaven
    Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars
    3:38
  • 14
    Back o’ Town Blues
    Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars
    4:09
  • 15
    Rockin’ Chair
    Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars
    5:16
  • 16
    Jack‐Armstrong Blues
    3:02
  • 17
    Muskrat Ramble, Parts 1 & 2
    Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars
    6:15
  • 18
    That’s My Desire
    Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars
    4:47
  • 19
    That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
    Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra and Choir
    3:05
  • 20
    Blueberry Hill
    Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra and Choir
    2:53
  • 21
    You Can’t Lose a Broken Heart
    Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra
    3:13
  • CD 5: C’est si bon (1950–1954)
  • 1
    New Orleans Function
    Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars
    6:42
  • 2
    That’s for Me
    Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars
    5:13
  • 3
    Panama
    Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars
    5:04
  • 4
    C’est si bon (It’s So Good)
    Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra
    3:03
  • 5
    La Vie en rose
    Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra
    3:25
  • 6
    (I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead) You Rascal You
    Louis Armstrong with Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
    3:06
  • 7
    Dream a Little Dream of Me
    Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra
    3:06
    5.0 ★
  • 8
    You Can Depend on Me
    Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars
    4:07
  • 9
    Baby, It’s Cold Outside
    Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars
    5:43
  • 10
    Gone Fishin’ (live radio version)
    Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
    3:02
  • 11
    A Kiss to Build a Dream On
    Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra
    3:03
  • 12
    (When We Are Dancin’) I Get Ideas
    Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra
    3:26
  • 13
    Because of You
    Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
    3:15
  • 14
    Indian Love Call
    Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra and Choir
    3:11
  • 15
    When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
    Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra and Choir
    3:17
  • 16
    It Takes Two to Tango
    Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra
    2:56
  • 17
    Your Cheatin’ Heart
    Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra
    2:44
  • 18
    Someday (You’ll Be Sorry)
    Louis Armstrong & The Commanders
    3:07
  • 19
    The Gypsy
    Louis Armstrong & The Commanders
    3:20
  • 20
    The Whiffenpoof Song
    Louis Armstrong & His All‐Stars
    2:55
  • CD 6: SATCHMO (1954–1957)
  • 1
    Beale Street Blues
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    4:57
  • 2
    Chantez‐les bas (Sing ’Em Low)
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    4:48
  • 3
    (Back Home Again in) Indiana
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    4:25
  • 4
    Blue Turning Grey Over You
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    4:54
  • 5
    Mack the Knife
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    3:22
  • 6
    The Faithful Hussar
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    6:13
  • 7
    Royal Garden Blues
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    4:50
  • 8
    Bucket’s Got a Hole in It
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    5:20
  • 9
    St Louis Blues (Concerto Grosso)
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein
    10:29
  • 10
    Stars Fell on Alabama
    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
    3:34
  • 11
    They Can’t Take That Away From Me
    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
    4:40
    4.5 ★
  • 12
    The Nearness of You
    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
    5:42
  • 13
    On the Sunny Side of the Street
    Louis Armstrong with Orchestra conducted by Sy Oliver
    5:50
  • 14
    When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)
    Louis Armstrong with Orchestra conducted by Sy Oliver
    4:02
  • 15
    King of the Zulus
    Louis Armstrong with Orchestra conducted by Bob Haggart
    3:57
  • CD 7: What a Wonderful World (1957–1970)
  • 1
    Stompin’ at the Savoy
    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
    5:15
    3.5 ★
  • 2
    Our Love Is Here to Stay
    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
    4:00
  • 3
    I Get a Kick Out of You
    Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson
    4:18
  • 4
    Stormy Weather
    Louis Armstrong with Russell Garcia's Orchestra
    4:16
  • 5
    Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
    Louis Armstrong with Russell Garcia's Orchestra
    4:55
  • 6
    Summertime
    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
    4:57
    3.8 ★
  • 7
    Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess?
    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
    2:35
  • 8
    There’s No You
    Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson
    2:16
  • 9
    Let’s Fall in Love
    Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson
    3:16
  • 10
    Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
    Louis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra
    3:28
  • 11
    Summer Song
    3:15
  • 12
    Hello, Dolly!
    Louis Armstrong and the All Stars
    2:26
  • 13
    A Lot of Livin’ to Do
    Louis Armstrong and the All Stars
    2:35
  • 14
    I Still Get Jealous
    Louis Armstrong and the All Stars
    2:11
  • 15
    Moon River
    Louis Armstrong and the All Stars
    2:58
  • 16
    So Long Dearie
    Louis Armstrong and the All Stars
    2:14
  • 17
    Mame
    Louis Armstrong and the All Stars
    2:22
  • 18
    Cabaret
    Louis Armstrong and the All Stars
    2:46
  • 19
    What a Wonderful World
    Louis Armstrong’s Orchestra and Chorus
    2:18
  • 20
    Blueberry Hill
    Louis Armstrong with Bobby Hackett Quintet with Tyree Glenn
    3:19
  • 21
    When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
    Louis Armstrong with Bobby Hackett Quintet with Tyree Glenn
    3:28
  • CD 8: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1956)
  • 1
    When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
    3:33
  • 2
    Indiana
    4:29
  • 3
    The Gypsy
    4:44
  • 4
    Ole Miss Blues
    5:09
  • 5
    Bucket’s Got a Hole in It
    5:26
  • 6
    Perdido
    3:26
  • 7
    You Made Me Love You
    4:14
  • 8
    Mack the Knife
    3:53
  • 9
    Stompin’ at the Savoy
    5:04
  • 10
    You Can Depend on Me
    3:23
  • 11
    Mop Mop
    3:40
  • 12
    You Won’t Be Satisfied
    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
    3:41
  • 13
    Undecided
    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
    3:43
  • 14
    When the Saints Go Marching In
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars and Guests
    6:07
  • CD 9: The Silvervoice Interview (22 May 1965)
  • 1
    Mr Louis Armstrong himself in conversation with Mr Dan Morgenstern
    70:45
  • CD 10: Rare & Unreleased
  • 1
    Yeh (take 5)
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    3:44
  • 2
    Mm‐Mm (take 10)
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    2:39
  • 3
    Indiana (studio warm‐up)
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    5:28
  • 4
    Makin’ Whoopie (breakdown)
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    1:14
  • 5
    Makin’ Whoopie (take 1)
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    4:33
  • 6
    I Get a Kick Out of You (take 1)
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    1:10
  • 7
    I Get a Kick Out of You (run through)
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    0:34
  • 8
    I Get a Kick Out of You (take 3–4)
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    4:49
  • 9
    I Get a Kick Out of You (take 9–12)
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    2:19
  • 10
    I Get a Kick Out of You (take 13)
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    4:18
  • 11
    Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) (breakdown)
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    2:50
  • 12
    Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) (take 3)
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    8:32
  • 13
    Willow Weep for Me (take 1)
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    1:38
  • 14
    Willow Weep for Me (take 4)
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    4:38
  • 15
    Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess? (take 5 and 6)
    3:16
  • 16
    Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess? (take 7)
    2:44
  • 17
    Redheaded Woman
    2:44
  • 18
    Let’s Fall in Love
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    3:57
  • 19
    Basin Street Blues (take 1)
    Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
    7:11
  • 20
    So Long Dearie (rehearsal take)
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    2:19
  • 21
    So Long Dearie (take 1)
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    2:26
  • 22
    Pretty Little Missy (take 1)
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    1:04
  • 23
    Pretty Little Missy (take 4)
    Louis Armstrong & the All Stars
    2:28

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