{"id":1470,"date":"2008-09-29T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2008-09-29T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T21:03:00","slug":"louis_armstrong_fleischmanns_y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/09\/louis_armstrong_fleischmanns_y\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Louis Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><strong><strong>Louis Armstrong<\/strong><\/strong><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzstore.com\/stash\/louis-armstrong\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fleischmann&#8217;s Yeast Show &amp; Louis&#8217; Home-Recorded Tapes<\/em><\/a> (Jazz Society). If Armstrong&#8217;s big band of the late 1930s had been this supercharged on its commercial&#8221;\u00a0<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Armstrong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Armstrong.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/Armstrong-thumb-100x99-3071.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/span>recordings, critics might not have written all those disparaging things about it. These air checks tell the real story of what Armstrong was capable of in fronting Luis Russell&#8217;s band. Here is the fountainhead of jazz inspiration in full flight. The companion CD is a generous sampling of Louis reminiscing, singing, playing and joking into his home tape recorder. To hear him in the 1950s playing along, gloriously, with his 1922 recording of &#8220;Tears&#8221; is worth multiples of the price of this set. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Armstrong, Fleischmann&#8217;s Yeast Show &amp; Louis&#8217; Home-Recorded Tapes (Jazz Society). If Armstrong&#8217;s big band of the late 1930s had been this supercharged on its commercial&#8221;\u00a0recordings, critics might not have written all those disparaging things about it. These air checks tell the real story of what Armstrong was capable of in fronting Luis Russell&#8217;s band. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}