GREAT SUMMIT/VINYLE AUDIOPHILE 180GR/1 BONUS TRACKS

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With: Louis Armstrong (trumpet, vocals), Duke Ellington (piano), Trummy Young (trombone), Barney Bigard (clarinet), Mort Herbert (bass), Danny Barcelona (drums).
It is said that only mountains do not meet. The proof that they do, since Louis Armstrong finally managed to record with Duke Ellington. Some will always regret that this face-to-face meeting at the top – let’s not forget that they are mountains – did not take place in 1931 rather than in 1961, but one would have to be insensitive to everything that makes jazz irresistible not to fully enjoy these wonderful moments of complicity between two of the greatest ambassadors of swing, across all styles and eras. For as Louis Armstrong sings in Drop Me Off In Harlem, reminding the forgetful that even at 60 he had lost none of his splendor: “Old Satchmo still swinging...” And that, no one could contest. Especially not Duke Ellington, whose pianistic nobility matched ideally with the royal singing of Louis the First, whether he vibrated his vocal cords or pressed the pistons of his solar trumpet. And then around these two giants, Trummy Young on trombone and Barney Bigard on clarinet were having a great time. To make our hearts beat even stronger.