Louis Armstrong - When You're Smilling (2004)

Louis Armstrong… the most important, influential, and beloved musician of the 20 th Century. His trumpet virtuosity set the standard for Jazz improvisation, and his singing style forever altered the course of jazz and popular vocalists, affecting everyone from Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra, to Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. From the teeming streets of New Orleans to the great concert halls of Europe, Louis "Satchmo" and finally plain ol' "Pops" Armstrong entertained everyone… from the Roaring Twenties' gin mills to the Queen of England.
When You're Smilling - is a collection of some of Armstrong's best-known performances, released on Audio-DVD in DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital 2.0. The disc made in DVD-video format, is compatible to all DVD-Players.

Louis Armstrong Bio

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) was a trumpet player, singer, and bandleader, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists in the history of jazz.
Armstrong was born and brought up in New Orleans, a culturally diverse town with a unique musical mix of creole, ragtime, marching bands, and blues. Although from an early age he was able to play music professionally, he didn’t travel far from New Orleans until 1922, when he went to Chicago to join his mentor, King Oliver. Oliver’s band played primitive jazz, a hotter style of ragtime, with looser rhythms and more improvisation, and Armstrong’s role was mostly backing. Slow to promote himself, he was eventually persuaded by his wife Lil Hardin to leave Oliver, and In 1924 he went to New York to join the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. At the time, there were a few other artists using the rhythmic innovations of the New Orleans style, but none did it with the energy and brilliance of Armstrong, and he quickly became a sensation among New York musicians. Back in Chicago in 1925, he made his first recordings with his own group, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, and these became not only popular hits but also models for the first generation of jazz musicians, trumpeters or otherwise.
Other hits followed through the twenties and thirties, as well as troubles: crooked managers, lip injuries, mob entanglements, failed big-band ventures. As jazz styles changed, though, musical purists never lost any respect for him — although they were sometimes irritated by his hammy onstage persona. Around the late forties, with the help of a good manager, Armstrong’s business affairs finally stablilized, and he began to be seen as an elder statesman of American popular entertainment, appearing in Hollywood films, touring Asia and Europe, and dislodging The Beatles from the number-one position with “Hello, Dolly”. Today many people may know him as a singer (a good one), but as Miles Davis said: “You can’t play nothing on modern trumpet that doesn’t come from him.”

~ James Lincoln Collier, biographer

Tracklist:

01. Mack the Knife 03:27
02. Ain't Misbehavin' 03:03
03. A Kiss to Build a Dream On 03:04
04. Blueberry Hill 03:22
05. Hello, Dolly! 02:27
06. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) 04:03
07. La Vie en Rose 03:25
08. That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) 03:07
09. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans 05:27
10. Jeepers Creepers 04:41
11. Someday Youo‘ll Be Sorry 03:43
12. Moon River 02:59
13. C'Est Si Bon 02:47
14. When the Saints Go Marching In 03:11

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