Louis Armstrong 2

Throughout the 42 tracks in our selection, Louis Armstrong , trumpeter , singer and genius entertainer meets personalities from the world of music and song. Some of the greatest artists that jazz has given, from Sidney Bechet to Duke Ellington and Art Tatum , including the most illustrious voices of the genre like those of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald , come to share unforgettable moments of happiness with a man to whom jazz owes everything, or almost... We must indeed remember that before becoming a universal star whose refrains were taken up by crowds all over the world, Armstrong was the first true jazz soloist , an improviser transcendent, with inexhaustible invention, expressing himself with an admirable and incomparable sonority. But his fame very quickly went beyond the small world of jazz to conquer the general public.