The Wonderful Word of Louis Armstrong Wynton Marsalis

• 1 Hotter Than That 06:13
• 2 The Savoy Blues 04:55
• 3 Cornet Chop Suey 03:55
• 4 Heebie Jeebies 04:35
• 5 Skid-Dat-De-Dat 04:49
• 6 Jazz Lips 07:07
• 7 I'm Not Rough 10:49
• 8 Ory's Creole Trombone 09:15
• 9 Melancholy Blues 05:24
• 10 12th Street Rag 04:51
• 11 Weary Blues 04:32
• 12 Potato Head Blues 04:15
• 13 Knozz-Moe-King 02:09
• Total Runtime 01:12:49

Info for The Wonderful Word of Louis Armstrong

A century ago, Louis Armstrong changed the course of American music with his Hot Five and Hot Seven recording sessions, producing perhaps the most important records in jazz history. Now, Blue Engine is proud to release Wynton Marsalis’ The Wonderful Word of Louis Armstrong, which finds the famed trumpeter breathing new life into this seminal music alongside celebrated multi-instrumentalist Vince Giordano and members of both their bands.

Recorded during the last week of 2012 across a series of jam-packed Dizzy’s Club sets, the album is a sizzling celebration—at once both traditional and cutting-edge—of jazz’s most foundational repertoire. And by assembling an all-star band that blurs generational and stylistic lines, this new album is the embodiment of Armstrong’s belief in human equality and our shared responsibility to one another, and a demonstration of why the master musician is just as relevant as ever.

Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
Jon-Erik Kellso, trumpet
Chris Crenshaw, trombone
Victor Goines, tenor & soprano saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet
Vince Giordano, bass saxophone, tuba
Andy Stein, violin
Ken Salvo, banjo, guitar
Dan Nimmer, piano
Carlos Henriquez, bass
Ali Jackon, drums, tambourine

Wynton Marsalis
is the managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and a world-renowned trumpeter and composer. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12, entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and then joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than 60 jazz and classical recordings, which have won him nine GRAMMY Awards. In 1983 he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz GRAMMYs in the same year and repeated this feat in 1984.

Marsalis is also an internationally respected teacher and spokesman for music education, and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of U.S. universities and colleges. He has written six books; his most recent are Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!, illustrated by Paul Rogers and published by Candlewick Press in 2012, and Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life with Geoffrey C. Ward, published by Random House in 2008. In 1997 Marsalis became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center.

In 2001 he was appointed Messenger of Peace by Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and he has also been designated cultural ambassador to the United States of America by the U.S. State Department through their CultureConnect program. Marsalis was instrumental in the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief concert, produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. The event raised more than $3 million for the Higher Ground Relief Fund to benefit the musicians, music industry-related enterprises, and other individuals and entities from the areas in Greater New Orleans who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

Marsalis helped lead the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s home - Frederick P. Rose Hall - the first education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened in October 2004.

This album contains no booklet.