By delarue, New York Music Daily Today we celebrate 4/20 with the stoner king of jazz trumpet, Louis Armstrong. Satchmo was by all accounts a Snoop Dogg-class smoker who always carried the finest mezz. How stoned does he sound on the recently discovered Armstrong in Europe – streaming at Spotify – a live set recorded … Read More
Geoffrey Smith, BBC Music Magazine While there’s no shortage of concert recordings by Louis Armstrong’s All Stars – the iconic group that carries the Satchmo brand around the world in the last decades of his life – Louis Armstrong: Live in Europe (Dot Time: DT8105) offers something special. For one thing, it features the original … Read More
By Raul Da Gama, Jazz Da Gama Louis Armstrong’s evangelical musical career in music began more than one hundred years ago. He dazzled hard-core Satchmo-lovers and nice ordinary people alike with each recording he made and much more so every time he appeared on stage the world over, whether he appeared with his Hot Fives … Read More
By Yves Sportis & Michel Laplace, Jazz Hot T.K. Blue The Rhythms Continue Kasbah, The Wise One Speaks, Going to the East, Night in Medina, Kucheza Blues, Insomnia, The Last Day, At the Crossroads of Touba, A Gathering of Elders, Where, Hi Fly, Ifrane, Reverence for Those Who Came Before, Just Waiting: A Sister’s Lament, … Read More
By Rob Shepherd, Nextbop As Nextbop prides itself on presenting jazz of the present moment and the future, at first glance it may appear unusual for the site to review music recorded over sixty years ago. However, when provided with their proper historical contexts, the two previously unreleased live performances captured on Louis Armstrong Live … Read More
By Leah Williams, London Jazz News Launched in 2015, the Dot Time Records Legends series has so far given the world a whole range of incredible, unreleased music from greats such as Ella Fitzgerald, Ben Webster and Wolfgang Lackerschmid with Chet Baker. There have been four Louis Armstrong releases to date with the latest – … Read More
By George Harris, Jazz Weekly For much of his career, Louis Armstrong was denigrated for not “changing with the times” and embracing modern sounds of bebop and hard bop. What these critics and musicians didn’t understand is that, like Mozart, once you perfect a sound and style, why change directions? The broadcasts performances recorded on … Read More
Charles Waring, Record Collector Louis Armstrong was a trailblazing jazz innovator and is still regarded as the idiom’s greatest, most influential trumpeter of all time. Despite its rather unprepossessing title, Louis Armstrong Live in Europe (4 Stars, Dot Time) is a significant release that has been sanctioned by Armstrong’s estate and is sourced from the … Read More
by Scott Yanow, LA Jazz Scene This is the fourth of four Louis Armstrong CDs put out by the Dot time label (www.dottimerecords.com). Unlike the first three, most of the music on Live In Europe has been out before although just released by mostly tiny labels. The great Armstrong is featured with two different versions … Read More
By: Doug Ramsey, Arts Journal (Rifftides) It may be too easy to take Louis Armstrong for granted. After all, he is one of the greatest musicians of the Twentieth Century. Perhaps we all conclude that we understand why. Then, along comes yet another reminder of the intensity, the sheer strength, of his musicianship. The most … Read More
