Louis Armstrong On Verve

[king ubu]

thanks, will try and get in touch with the seller.

[romualdo]

Thanks, that sounds good enough for me!

Still need that Hip-O-Select double as well ... tended to ignore late Louis way too long!

Flurin

This is a fantastic set - highly recommended

Don't hold on for too long - it's a limited edition set (3000 copies) - I'm surprised it hasn't sold out yet

Import CD's currently have this for $24.95 - great price

[JSngry]

Somebody help? I got the complete Louis/Ella, new copy, and it comes packaged with this warning not to pull on some strip or something, now I'm afraid to open it, so, what's the answer here, please.

[king ubu]

I cut it open with scissors ... need to get the discs and booklet out some way, after all. Nice set!

[JSngry]

Really, REALLY digging the Garcia sessions...Garcia is in full-frontal Nelson Riddle mode, and the intent seems clearly to be to make a Frank Sinatra/Ella Fitgerald album only with Louis singing. But Pop's phrasing, his time, his soul, cannot be bent to do the long flowing graceful phrasing arc thing. No, Louis Armstrong cannot help but be Louis Armstrong - the songs get sung in short, percussively phrased groups of words that make sense on their own terms. And even if the alternates show the producer (Granz himself?) haggling/harassing him about the lyrical groupings of "You Turned The Tables On Me", they also show Louis holding his ground long enough and hard enough to make it evident that when he finally DID change it, it was an accommodation, not a submission.

On and on this goes, one song after another with fashionably "sophisticated" (and truthfully, quite good quite often) arrangements seemingly intent on endorsing & reenforcing The Great American Songbook, with The Great Louis Armstrong being Our Advocate Today, submitting for your approval.

Well, fuck that. What ends up being is yet more confirmation of The Great Louis Armstrong, who slips the word "scarfin'" into "You're Blase" like it's the most natural thing in the world, because hell, IT IS! And the trumpet section glissing up to their note on "Stormy Monday" as if playing in a hall of distorted historical Armstrongian Echo, like a child playing an old man in front of the old man, been doing this so long we forgot where we got it, and then Louis getting on top of them as if to say, thanks for the ride, coulda gotten here myself, but let's go from HERE. On and on like that, every song damn near, just Louis OWNING everything. It's jarring sometimes, at first, there seems to be some disconnects, because one is not accustomed to hearing this kind of record presented by this kind of being. But once the shock wears off, it becomes evident that Louis Armstrong could play any damn thing he wanted to, and that he would play it his way.

Like the man said upthread, "Majestic!" and not for any superficial reason.

[John L]

Amen to that!

[RiRiIII]

Yes, there is a booklet.

Just received a reasonably priced Verve "I've Got the World on a String/Under the Stars" 2 cd set from ebay (12 GBP, open but as new). Stangely there is some sequential issue of the booklet pages. While there is not a missing page at all, the Disc Two contents are listed as first page after the outer sleeve with the original LP front and rear sleeve reproduction, while the Disc One contents are at the end of the booklet after the credits and before/opposite a Satchmo velvet photo and the rear sleeve of the "Under the stars" LP.

Is it the same with any of yours?

BTW, Satchmo shines. Fantastic, and thanks for bringing this release up.

Alex

Edited April 8, 2015 by Alexandros

[John L]

Alex - I will check my booklet when I get home today.

John

[RiRiIII]

Alex - I will check my booklet when I get home today.

John

I did the same!

Edited April 8, 2015 by Alexandros

[John L]

Alex - My booklet is exactly like yours. It looks like that they put the disc one contents where they should have put the disc 2 contents and vice versa. Not really a problem though.

[Chuck Nessa]

Yes, there is a booklet.

Just received a reasonably priced Verve "I've Got the World on a String/Under the Stars" 2 cd set from ebay (12 GBP, open but as new). Stangely there is some sequential issue of the booklet pages. While there is not a missing page at all, the Disc Two contents are listed as first page after the outer sleeve with the original LP front and rear sleeve reproduction, while the Disc One contents are at the end of the booklet after the credits and before/opposite a Satchmo velvet photo and the rear sleeve of the "Under the stars" LP.

Is it the same with any of yours?

BTW, Satchmo shines. Fantastic, and thanks for bringing this release up.

Alex

Jim's thread caused me to order a used copy and it arrived without a booklet. I ordered another cheap one in hopes of at least getting a readable booklet.

[king ubu]

Yes, there is a booklet.

Just received a reasonably priced Verve "I've Got the World on a String/Under the Stars" 2 cd set from ebay (12 GBP, open but as new). Stangely there is some sequential issue of the booklet pages. While there is not a missing page at all, the Disc Two contents are listed as first page after the outer sleeve with the original LP front and rear sleeve reproduction, while the Disc One contents are at the end of the booklet after the credits and before/opposite a Satchmo velvet photo and the rear sleeve of the "Under the stars" LP.

Is it the same with any of yours?

BTW, Satchmo shines. Fantastic, and thanks for bringing this release up.

Alex

Jim's thread caused me to order a used copy and it arrived without a booklet. I ordered another cheap one in hopes of at least getting a readable booklet.

Ha ha, exactly the same here. Second copy came with booklet, but with the same wrong page sequence.

Actually, I kept the discs of the first set, as the second ones were somewhat scratched (and the first had a somewhat beat up digipack).

[RiRiIII]

Alex - My booklet is exactly like yours. It looks like that they put the disc one contents where they should have put the disc 2 contents and vice versa. Not really a problem though.

Many thanks for your time checking it.

Alex

[Chuck Nessa]

Yes, there is a booklet.

Just received a reasonably priced Verve "I've Got the World on a String/Under the Stars" 2 cd set from ebay (12 GBP, open but as new). Stangely there is some sequential issue of the booklet pages. While there is not a missing page at all, the Disc Two contents are listed as first page after the outer sleeve with the original LP front and rear sleeve reproduction, while the Disc One contents are at the end of the booklet after the credits and before/opposite a Satchmo velvet photo and the rear sleeve of the "Under the stars" LP.

Is it the same with any of yours?

BTW, Satchmo shines. Fantastic, and thanks for bringing this release up.

Alex

Jim's thread caused me to order a used copy and it arrived without a booklet. I ordered another cheap one in hopes of at least getting a readable booklet.

Ha ha, exactly the same here. Second copy came with booklet, but with the same wrong page sequence.

Actually, I kept the discs of the first set, as the second ones were somewhat scratched (and the first had a somewhat beat up digipack).

My second set was sans booklet as well. Will be satisfied with scans from a friend. Sigh.

[king ubu]

Yes, there is a booklet.

Just received a reasonably priced Verve "I've Got the World on a String/Under the Stars" 2 cd set from ebay (12 GBP, open but as new). Stangely there is some sequential issue of the booklet pages. While there is not a missing page at all, the Disc Two contents are listed as first page after the outer sleeve with the original LP front and rear sleeve reproduction, while the Disc One contents are at the end of the booklet after the credits and before/opposite a Satchmo velvet photo and the rear sleeve of the "Under the stars" LP.

Is it the same with any of yours?

BTW, Satchmo shines. Fantastic, and thanks for bringing this release up.

Alex

Jim's thread caused me to order a used copy and it arrived without a booklet. I ordered another cheap one in hopes of at least getting a readable booklet. Ha ha, exactly the same here. Second copy came with booklet, but with the same wrong page sequence.

Actually, I kept the discs of the first set, as the second ones were somewhat scratched (and the first had a somewhat beat up digipack).

My second set was sans booklet as well. Will be satisfied with scans from a friend. Sigh.

Can help if necessary, just drop me a line.