Louis Armstrong discography

Armstrong in 1947

Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), nicknamed Satchmo[1] or Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz and in all of American popular music. His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and different eras in jazz.[2]

Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" trumpet and cornet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance.[3] With his instantly recognizable gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also skilled at scat singing.

Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general. Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over", whose skin color was secondary to his music in an America that was extremely racially divided. He rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, but took a well-publicized stand for desegregation in the Little Rock Crisis. His artistry and personality allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society which were highly restricted for black men of his era.

Discography

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Singles

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Year Title(s) Label Credit (if not Louis Armstrong)
1923 "Froggie Moore" / "Chimes Blues" Gennett 5135 King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
1923 "Mandy Lee Blues" / "I'm Going Away to Wear You off My Mind" Gennett 5134 King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
1923 "Riverside Blues" / "Mabel's Dream" [Take 1] Claxtonola 40292 King Oliver's Jazz Band
1924 "Prince of Wails" [Take 2] / "Mandy Make Up Your Mind" [Take 2] Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra
1926 "Gut Bucket Blues" / "Yes! I'm in the Barrel"[4] OKeh 8261 Louis Armstrong's Hot Five
1926 "Oriental Strut" / "You're Next"[5] OKeh 8299 Louis Armstrong's Hot Five
1926 "Muskrat Ramble" / "Heebie Jeebies"[5] OKeh 8300 Louis Armstrong's Hot Five
1926 "Georgia Grind" / "Come Back, Sweet Papa"[6] OKeh 8318 Louis Armstrong's Hot Five
1926 "Dropping Shucks" / "Who'sit"[7] OKeh 8357 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
1927 "Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa" / "Sweet Little Papa"[8] OKeh 8379
1927 "King of the Zulus" / "Lonesome Blues"[8] OKeh 8396
1927 "Big Butter and Egg Man from the West" / "Sunset Cafe Stomp"[8] OKeh 8423
1927 "You Made Me Love You" / "Irish Black Bottom"[9] OKeh 8447 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
1927 "Skid-Dat-De-Dat" / "Jazz Lips"[10] OKeh 8436
1927 "Wild Man Blues"[11] / "Gully Low Blues"[12] OKeh 8474 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven
1927 "Alligator Crawl" / "Willie the Weeper"[13] OKeh 8482 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven
1927 "Keyhole Blues" / "Melancholy Blues"[14] OKeh 8496 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven
1927 "Potato Head Blues" / "Put 'Em Down Blues"[15] OKeh 8503 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven
1927 "Weary Blues" / "That's When I'll Come Back to You"[16] OKeh 8519[17] Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
1928 "Hotter Than That" / "Savoy Blues"[18] OKeh 8535 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
1928 "Struttin' with Some Barbecue" / "Once in a While"[19] OKeh 8566 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
1928 "West End Blues" / "Fireworks"[20] OKeh 8597 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
1928 "A Monday Date" / "Sugar Feet Strut"[21] OKeh 8609 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
1929 "Ain't Misbehavin'"[22] OKeh 8714[23] Louis Armstrong Orchestra
1930 "I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me)" / "Rockin' Chair" OKeh 8756
1930 "If I had a Talking Picture of You" / "St. Louis Blues"[24] OKeh
1930 "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas" / "I'm in the Market for You" Odeon 36141
1930 "Song of the Islands" / "Blue Turning Grey Over You" Odeon 36039
1931 "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" / "I’ll Be Glad When Your Dead, You Rascal You" OKeh 41504 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
1933 "Laughin' Louie" / "Tomorrow Night"[25] Bluebird B-5363 Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra
1938 "Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Generosity" / "Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Throwing Stones" Decca 15043
1938 "Shadrack" / "Jonah and the Whale" Decca 1913
1939 "Jeepers Creepers" / "What Is This Thing Called Swing?" Decca 2267
1940 "Marie" / "Sleepy Time Gal" Decca 3291 Louis Armstrong and Mills Brothers / Mills Brothers
1946 "Endie" / "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" RCA Victor 20-2087
1949 "Blueberry Hill" / "That Lucky Old Sun" Decca 24752
1950 "La Vie en rose" / "C'est si bon" Decca 27113
1951 "(When We Are Dancing) I Get Ideas" / "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" Decca 27720
1952 "It Takes Two to Tango" / "I Laughed at Love" Decca 28394
1962 "Mack the Knife" / "The Faithful Hussar" CBS CA 281.144 [France]
1964 "Hello, Dolly" / "A Lot of Livin' to Do" Kapp KL-1364 [US]
1967 "What a Wonderful World" / "Cabaret" ABC 10982 [7-inch vinyl]
1968 "What a Wonderful World" / "Cabaret" His Master's Voice [Great Britain]
1968 "I Will Wait for You" / "Talk to the Animals" [7-inch vinyl]
1969 "We Have All the Time in the World" / "We Have All the Time in the World" IME – 269870 [7-inch vinyl]

Original albums

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These LPs and EPs were released during Armstrong's lifetime and contained original studio and/or live recordings. The year and label information is for the first vinyl release, unless otherwise noted. Additional information such as number of tracks is given only when necessary to distinguish between different releases under the same title. In most cases, the number of CD releases listed is limited, with preference given to the label that originally released the album.

Year Title Label CD release(s) Credit (if not Louis Armstrong) and additional notes
1944 Jazz Classics Brunswick B-1016
1951 Satchmo at Symphony Hall Decca DL 3087/8038 2-LP set; concert recorded November 30, 1947
1951 Satchmo at Pasadena Decca
1952 Satchmo Serenades Decca DL 5401
1954 Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy Columbia CL 591 (11 tracks) Columbia: 1986 (12 tracks), 1997 (16 tracks), 1999 (16 tracks, SACD) composer W. C. Handy
1954 Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers, Volume One Decca ED 2113 (4 tracks) Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers
1955 Satch Plays Fats: A Tribute to the Immortal Fats Waller Columbia CL 708 (9 tracks) Columbia: 2000 (SACD); Legacy: 2008 (CD);
Sony Music: 2009 (CD)
BBC Music Magazine. 		composer Fats Waller
1955 Louis Armstrong at the Crescendo, Vol. 1 Decca
1955 Satchmo Sings Decca DL 8126
1956 Louis Armstrong and Eddie Condon at Newport Columbia CL-931 Louis Armstrong & Eddie Condon
1956 Satchmo the Great Columbia: 1994, 2000
BBC Music Magazine. 		songs are introduced by excerpts from interviews with Edward R. Murrow
1956 An Evening with Louis Armstrong and His All Stars..Vols 1 & 2 In Concert at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium
1956 Louis Armstrong and His All Stars –
Ambassador Satch 		Columbia CL 840 2009 Legacy: 88697492022
BBC Music Magazine. 		December 1955 tour of Western Europe, concert recordings Amsterdam, Milan
1956 Ella and Louis Verve MG V-4003 Verve: 1985, 2000, 2002 (SACD) Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
1957 Ella and Louis Again Verve MGV 4006-2 [double LP] Verve: 2003 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
1957 Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson Verve [12 tracks] Verve: 1997 (16 tracks) Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson
1957 Louis Under the Stars Verve MGV 4012
1957 Louis and the Angels Decca Universal/MCA: 2000; Verve: 2001
1958 Porgy & Bess Verve MGV 4011-2 [double LP] Verve: 1986; Verve Music Group: 2008; Essential Jazz Classics Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
1958 Louis and the Good Book Decca DL 8741 [12 tracks] MCA [France]: 1987, 1992; Verve [Germany]: 2001 (20 tracks)
1959 Satchmo in Style Decca
1959 The Five Pennies London SAH-U 6044 Danny Kaye & Louis Armstrong
1959 Satchmo Plays King Oliver Audio Fidelity ST 91058 Louis Armstrong
1960 I've Got the World on a String [10 tracks]
1960 Bing & Satchmo MGM E3882P DRG: 2009 Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong
1961 Recording Together for the First Time Roulette SR52074 [10 tracks] Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
1961 The Great Reunion Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
1962 The Real Ambassadors Columbia OL 5850 [15 tracks] CBS: 1990 [20 tracks], 1994 [20 tracks]; Poll Winners: 2012 [25 tracks] with Dave Brubeck, Carmen McRae, and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
1964 Hello, Dolly! Kapp KL-1364 [mono], KS-3364 [stereo] MCA: 2000
1968 Here's Louis Armstrong MCA & MCA Coral Cat# VL7-3851
1968 Disney Songs the Satchmo Way Buena Vista STBV 4044 Walt Disney: 1996, 2001
1968 I Will Wait for You Brunswick BL 754136
1968 What a Wonderful World ABC ABCS 650
1969 The One and Only Vocalion VL 73871
1970 Louis 'Country & Western' Armstrong Avco Embassy Records IT 80 959
1971 Louis Armstrong and His Friends Flying Dutchman Records AM 12009

Posthumous releases

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These LPs and CDs were released after Armstrong's 1971 death.

  • Louis Armstrong in Prague Lucerna Hall 1965 (Panton, 1979) – reissued on CD in 2000 by Columbia
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 1923-1934 (Legacy / Columbia, 1994; Sony Music, 2001)
  • Louis Armstrong's All Time Greatest Hits (MCA, 1994)
  • 16 Most Requested Songs (Columbia/Legacy, 1994)
  • Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions
  • Struttin' (Drive Archive, 1996) – 8 February 1947 concert with Edmond Hall's All-Stars
  • The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve (1997) – repackaging of Ella and Louis, Ella and Louis Again, and Porgy and Bess
  • rereleases of Together For The First Time and The Great Reunion
  • The Legendary Berlin Concert (Jazzpoint, 2000) – 22 March 1965 concert with Billy Kyle, Tyree Glenn, Eddie Shu, Arvell Shaw and Danny Barcelona
  • The Katanga Concert (Milan, 2000) – previously unreleased November 1960 concert in Katanga, Africa with Trummy Young, Barney Bigard, Billy Kyle, Arvell Shaw, Danny Barcelona and Velma Middleton. Also contains 17 tracks that were previously issued on one of two earlier Milan CDs, Blueberry Hill (Recorded 17 May 1962 in Nice, France) and What a Wonderful World: The Elizabethtown Concert (Recorded November 1960 in Elisabethville, Africa)
  • The Definitive Collection (Hip-O/Verve, 2006)
  • Live in Amsterdam 1959 (Ais Records, 2011)
  • The Complete Decca Studio Recordings of Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars (Mosaic Records, 1993)[26]
  • The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions 1935–1946 (Mosaic Records, 2009)[27]
  • The Columbia & RCA Victor Live Recordings of Louis Armstrong & The All-Stars (Mosaic Records, 2013)[28]
  • The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia & RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946–66 (Mosaic Records, 2021)[29]
  • Louis Wishes You a Cool Yule (Verve Records/UMe, 2022)[30]
  • Louis In London (Verve Records/UMe, 2024)[31]

List of songs recorded

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Chronology of the recordings of Armstrong's songs:

References and sources

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Sources

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  • Willems, Jos, All of Me : The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong, Scarecrow Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0810857308
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