Louis Armstrong With King Oliver

Louis Armstrong & King Oliver, Louis Armstrong | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 15, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Milestone
• ASIN: B000000XW1
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #182,639 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lively Leads & No Hiss, October 24, 2001

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Michael Bond (San Antonio, Tx USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Louis Armstrong With King Oliver (Audio CD)

'Louis Armstrong And King Oliver' should be considered a preview of the Hot Fives & Sevens that was to come. Armstrong's first recordings with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band are more ensemble oriented. He's the second cornet to King Oliver's cornet. (The cornet was a predecessor to the modern trumpet.) The double cornet breaks make for some lively dancehall jazz. . . This one also has seven tracks from the Red Onion Jazz Babies. They hail from Armstrong's first stint in New York City. "Cake Walking Babies From Home" is some of the earliest magic that Armstrong put to wax. This version is worth the price of admission. . . The sound quality for these 1923/1924 recordings is terrific. The early 90's compact disc are a lot better than the 1980's cassette of this material. This release does justice to the early recorded work of Louis Armstrong.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrid sound., January 27, 2006

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Warren Steele (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Louis Armstrong With King Oliver (Audio CD)

This is one of the most overly-filtered CDs I have ever heard. The Gennett sides often get dissed for being poorly recorded. It is reissues like this that give them a bad name. They are actually very lively recordings, but you'd never know it from listening to this dismal effort. Milestone has filtered every bit of scratch out -- and a tremendous amount of music was lost along with it. Dull, bland, lifeless, boxy -- any of these words could describe this reissue. I suspect they started with Nick Perls' work on the 1974 Herwin reissue and began filtering from there.

Don't waste your money on this awful CD.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lousy Sound -- Get "Complete Set", September 5, 2004

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A techno geek (Hawai`i, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Louis Armstrong With King Oliver (Audio CD)

You can hear from the Windows Media samples that the tracks have been filtered to death. A much more vibrant transcription of the same recordings is the wonderful "King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: The Complete Set".