View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of Milestones Of A Jazz Legend on Discogs. Label: The Intense Media - ,Documents - • Series: Milestones Of A Legend • Format: 10x, CD Compilation, Reissue Box Set Compilation • Country: Europe • Genre: Jazz • Louis Armstrong Sings The Blues ( 5/5(1).

This three-CD set compiles various recordings by three of the most famous names in swing jazz: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Benny amuntisthoreca.regbemispresnilitirecewemavo.co the front cover claims to contain "3 classic albums," the set actually consists of three compilations: the Ken Burns Jazz collections of each artist, to be exact. So, as with the documentary series, it's a misleading presentation, but you still 8/

Louis Armstrong (August 4, - July 6, ) nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Coming to prominence in the s as an inventive trumpet and cornet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo.

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His first record credit was playing second cornet in King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band’s single ‘Froggie Moore’/’Chimes Blues’, released in on Gennett Records. In the s, Louis Armstrong.

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This disc contains a documentary about the jazz legend Louis Armstrong that combines vintage concert footage with interviews. The DVD offers a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo, and occasionally reveals the aged state of the source materials.

This CD reissue from has its good and bad points. The good points to the reissue of 11 selections by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (the best jazz group on record in ) are that the recording quality has been greatly improved from the past, and the music is timeless. The bad points are that there is less than half an hour of music on this CD; Louis Armstrong, a sideman with the group.

Jul 31,  · Louis Armstrong, the leading trumpeter and one of the most influential artists in jazz history. He was also a bandleader, singer, film star, and comedian. With his great sensitivity, technique, and capacity to express emotion, Armstrong led in the development of jazz into a fine art.