Louis Armstrong - Let's Do It: Best of the Verve Years [Recorded 1956-1965] (1995)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 762 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 358 MB | Covers - 17 MB
Genre: Jazz, Dixieland, New Orleans Jazz, Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (529 017-2)
No thanks to a concert schedule that gave recording sessions a low priority, Louis Armstrong's period at Verve was unconscionably short - only a little over a year (August 1956 to October 1957). But since Verve chief Norman Granz liked to record his artists a lot, Armstrong's Verve sessions produced quite a harvest - six albums on eight LPs, including three with the redoubtable Ella Fitzgerald - substantial portions of which are included in this well-packed two-CD set. The albums Ella and Louis Again and Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson get the most exposure with eight tracks apiece, the first Ella and Louis album gets five, I've Got the World on a String gets four, and Louis Under the Stars and, strangely, the Porgy and Bess album with Fitzgerald only get three each…