Meets Oscar Peterson

Descripción

DESCRIPCIÓN DEL PRODUCTO When I was a kid”, Louis Armstrong says, “I used to go singing around in churches or choirs or on street corners. You’d get four hustlers on a corner who could make a sharp quartet. We’d pass the hat and sometimes we’d make as much as $1.50 a night. That was like $150 a night now.” This recollection places Satchmo’s vocal career ahead of his hornblowing life by several years and means that he has been singing, for pleasure and money, over half a century. Since today his popularity with the general public can be credited even more to his singing than to the trumpet that originally made him a globally known figure, and since the present album is basically a set of vocal performances, it is interesting to note that this thorny, rock-bottomed approach to the use of the human voice predated (and in a sense predicted) similar melodic and rhythmic nuances on the cornet and trumpet.