Louis Armstrong
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

CATLP212
Not Now Music
253- A1: Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen
- A2: Shadrack
- A3: Go Down Moses
- A4: Rock My Soul (In The Bosom Of Abraham)
- A5: Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
- A6: On My Way (Got On My Travelin’ Sh
- B1: Down By The Riverside
- B2: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- B3: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
- B4: Jonah And The Whale
- B5: Didn’t It Rain
- B6: This Train
A jazz musician playing spirituals? In a sense that is what Louis
Armstrong has been doing all along. Anyone who has ever read a
history of jazz knows that there’s supposed to be a relationship
between jazz and spirituals, jazz and work songs, jazz and the
blues. The patterns which the sax and reed sections use in swing
band arrangements are drawn from the “call” (the preacher) and
“response” (the congregation) patterns used in churches. This
album clearly shows Armstrong’s heritage and what an outstanding
and versatile musician he was.

