Louis Armstrong - Louis and the Good Book

Styles: Vocal And Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1958
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:34
Size: 144,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:02)  1. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've
(2:46)  2. Shadrack
(3:41)  3. Go Down, Moses
(2:58)  4. Rock My Soul
(2:33)  5. Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
(3:05)  6. On My Way
(3:10)  7. Down by the Riverside
(3:09)  8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
(3:29)  9. Sometimes I Feel Like a Mother
(2:40) 10. Jonah and the Whale
(2:52) 11. Didn't It Rain
(2:31) 12. This Train
(3:18) 13. Sit Down, You're Rocking the B
(2:59) 14. That's What the Man Said
(2:36) 15. Shadrack
(2:49) 16. Going to Shout All Over God's
(3:12) 17. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've
(2:49) 18. Jonah and the Whale
(4:22) 19. Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Thro
(4:22) 20. Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Gene

An unusual album in the Louis Armstrong canon, this collection of gospel songs, spirituals, homilies, and comic vignettes was the only religious album this determinedly secular musician recorded. Backed by a gospel vocal group led by the celebrated jazz arranger Sy Oliver, Armstrong performs a variety of religious-themed favorites, including "Ezekiel Saw De Wheel," "Going to Shout All Over God's Heaven," and "Didn't it Rain," as well as "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" from Guys And Dolls. 

There's an affecting version of the traditional spiritual "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," and a particular highlight is the inclusion of two comic sermons by the musician's alter ego, Elder Eatmore. http://www.allmusic.com/album/louis-and-the-good-book-mw0000319753

Personnel: Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet); Sy Oliver Choir (vocals); Trummy Young (trombone); Hank D'Amico, Edmond Hall, Dave McRae (clarinet); Billy Kyle (piano); Nickie Tragg, Harry Mills (organ); George Barnes (guitar); Joe Benjamin, Mort Herbert (bass); Johnny Blowers, Barrett Deems (drums).

Louis and the Good Book

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