DE-LUXE DIGI-SLEEVE EDITIONS ORIGINAL CLASSIC JAZZ ALBUMS Including bonus tracks and up-to-date liner notes.
The classic album Louis and the Good Book (Decca DL8741) presents Louis Armstrong playing and singing timeless spirituals and traditional songs with arrangements by Sy Oliver. While he had recorded some of these songs in the thirties the versions on this LP are without doubt the definitive ones. We have complemented that album with nine additional outstanding spirituals and traditional songs in a similar mood recorded by Louis in the studio in the 1950s.

LOUIS ARMSTRONG trumpet & vocals
Arrangements and orchestra conducted by SY OLIVER
Trummy Young (tb) Edmond Hall Hank D’Amico or Dave McRae (cl) Billy Kyle (p) Nick Tragg (org) George Barnes or Everett Barksdale (g) Mort Herbert (b) Barrett Deems (d) plus choir.
New York February 4-7 1958.
*BONUS TRACKS: Louis Armstrong (tp vcl) with The Dukes of Dixieland & The All Stars.
Chicago Los Angeles & New York 1950-1960.

1. NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I’VE SEEN
2. SHADRACK
3. GO DOWN MOSES
4. ROCK MY SOUL
5. EZEKIEL SAW THE WHEEL
6. ON MY WAY
7. DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE
8. SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT
9. SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD
10. JONAH AND THE WHALE
11. DIDN’T IT RAIN
12. THIS TRAIN
13. DEAR OLD SOUTHLAND *
14. JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE *
15. NEW ORLEANS *
16. ST. JAMES INFIRMARY *
17. FRANKIE & JOHNNY *
18. MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME *
19. CHIMES BLUES *
20. NEW ORLEANS FUNCTION *
21. NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I’VE SEEN #2 *