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Louis Armstrong: His genius lives on
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[Telegraph.co.uk] - St Louis Blues ranks as one of the most perfectly co-ordinated duo performances in the vast history of the blues. Armstrong always has a splendid command of the trumpet's upper register and by the late 1920s his use of high notes was phenomenal.
Satchmo: Louis Armstrong, Ambassador of Jazz: Louis Armstrong, CD review
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[Telegraph.co.uk] - All the much-anthologised classics like St Louis Blues are here, alongside lesser-known numbers which, if anything, are more revealing. The melancholy Blue Turning Grey Over You has a subtle, almost Ellington-like introduction, and Armstrong's solos
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