Louis Armstrong and his All Stars at two different locations in San Francisco 1954. doing what they loved and did best: playing Jazz of a quality defying description, and, as Louis would have said “pleasing the people”. There’s proof to spare that “pleasing the people” was fundamental to Louis; a pointer to the deep compassion for mankind which he felt and which brought him as much love as his consummate faultless artistry as a trumpet player.
Louis Armstrong (tp & vo) Trummy Young (tb) Barney Bigard (cl & vo) Billy Kyle (p) Arvell Shaw, Milt Hinton (b) Barrett Deems, Kenny Jones (dr) Velma Middleton (vo)
Recorded January 16th & December 31st, 1954
Sleepy Time Down South
Indiana
Big Butter And Egg Man
High Society
Audl Lang Syne
Back O’Town Blues
12th Street Rag
Sleepy Time Down South
Shadack/When The Saints
West End Blues
Dummy Song
Bucket’s Got A Hole In It
Tin Roof Blues
Sleepy Time Down South