Louis Armstrong and His Friends

Louis Armstrong and His Friends
Studio album by
Louis Armstrong
Released1970 (1970)
RecordedMay 26, 27 & 29, 1970
StudioNew York City
GenreJazz
Length52:20
LabelFlying Dutchman/Amsterdam
M31-1012
ProducerBob Thiele
Louis Armstrong chronology
Disney Songs the Satchmo Way
(1968) 		Louis Armstrong and His Friends
(1970) 		Louis 'Country & Western' Armstrong
(1970)

Louis Armstrong and His Friends is an album by the Louis Armstrong recorded in 1970 and originally released by Flying Dutchman on their Amsterdam subsidiary label.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

AllMusic reviewer Alex Henderson stated "Louis Armstrong and His Friends isn't among the trumpeter/singer's essential releases, but it is certainly interesting, enjoyable, and historically important. Recorded in May 1970, Louis Armstrong and His Friends was his next-to-last studio session ... Armstrong was in poor health; in fact, he wasn't well enough to do any trumpet playing on this album. But he was still able to sing, and he gets his points across ... Louis Armstrong and His Friends sometimes goes out of its way to sound contemporary (by early-'70s standards). And for the most part, it works ... short of essential, but for Armstrong's truly devoted fans, it is a fascinating (if imperfect) album to listen to".[3]

Track listing

  1. "We Shall Overcome" (Zilphia Horton, Guy Carawan, Frank Hamilton, Pete Seeger) − 6:43
  2. "Everybody's Talkin' (Echoes)" (Fred Neil) − 3:04
  3. "What a Wonderful World" (Bob Thiele, George David Weiss) − 3:21
  4. "Boy from New Orleans" (Ruth Roberts, Bill Katz, Thiele) − 3:57
  5. "The Creator Has a Master Plan (Peace)" (Pharoah Sanders, Leon Thomas) − 4:15
  6. "Give Peace a Chance" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) − 4:35
  7. "Mood Indigo" (Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills) − 3:20
  8. "His Father Wore Long Hair" (Pauline Rivelli, Thiele, Weiss) − 2:32
  9. "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) − 3:19
  10. "This Black Cat Has Nine Lives" (Lorenzo Pack) − 2:47
  11. "Here Is My Heart for Christmas" (Rivelli, Thiele, Weiss) − 2:38 Additional track on CD reissue
  12. "The Creator Has a Master Plan (Peace)" [previously unreleased mix] (Sanders, Thomas) − 5:56 Additional track on CD reissue
  13. "The Creator Has a Master Plan (Peace) [previously unreleased mix] (Sanders, Thomas) − 5:53 Additional track on CD reissue

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Both Sides Now: Amsterdam Subsidiary Label 12000 Series, accessed November 25, 2019
  2. ^ Minn. M. The Louis Armstrong Discography: Twilight (1963 - 1971), accessed November 25, 2019
  3. ^ a b Henderson, Alex. Louis Armstrong: Louis Armstrong and His Friends – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.