Louis Armstrong - Satch Plays Fats (BONUS EDITION)

Original release date: 1955
This Bonus Edition release date: 2000 (Colombia)
Format: FLAC


Review by Cub Koda:
Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller only worked together twice, briefly in 1925 in Erskine Tate's band and four years later in the New York revue Connie's Hot Chocolates. But Waller made an indelible enough impression for Satchmo to record the tribute album Satch Plays Fats: The Music of Fats Waller in 1955, when such ideas were new. The nine tracks feature Armstrong ably supported by his All-Stars on such classics as "Honeysuckle Rose," "Squeeze Me," and "Ain't Misbehavin'." The mid-'50s was a fertile time for Armstrong, and this makes for a stellar package. [Some reissues deliver over twice the tracks of the original LP issue, with four edited alternate takes from the same session, plus seven more tracks of Waller material recorded by Armstrong in the 1920s and '30s.]


Tracks:
1. Honeysuckle Rose
2. Blue Turning Grey over You
3. I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (And My Baby's Crazy 'Bout Me)
4. Squeeze Me
5. Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
6. All That Meat and No Potatoes
7. I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling
8. Black and Blue
9. Ain't Misbehavin'

Bonus Tracks:
10. Black and Blue (Edited Alternate Version)
11. I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (Edited Alternate Version)
12. Blue Turning Grey over You (Edited Alternate Version)
13. I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling (Edited Alternate Version)
14. Squeeze Me
15. Black and Blue
16. Ain't Misbehavin'
17. Blue Turning Grey over You
18. Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
19. Sweet Savannah Sue
20. That Rhythm Man


Personnel:
Trumpet, vocals – Louis Armstrong
Bass [String Bass] – Arvell Shaw
Clarinet – Barney Bigard
Drums – Barret Deems
Piano – Billy Kyle
Trombone – Trummy Young
Vocals - Velma Middleton tracks 1 and 4

For idividual track credits see included booklet