C'est Si Bon [Tomato Music] CD by Louis Armstrong

C'est Si Bon [Tomato Music] by Louis Armstrong CD. This CD contains almost all of Armstrong's late-period favorites, including "A Kiss To Build A Dream On," "Mack The Knife," "Hello Dolly" and "That's My Desire." Compiled primarily from concert performances from the '60s, throughout which Armstrong toured extensively with his All Stars (a group based on the traditional New Orleans ensemble), C'EST SI BON brings Satch's workhorses together under one roof, adding standbys from the '20s and '30s like "St. Louis Blues" and "King Porter Stomp" for good measure.
As always, Armstrong performs like the true original that he was; displaying not only his emotive, rhythmically expansive playing and singing but his sensitivity as well, as evidenced in his lovely duet with Ella Fitzgerald on "Dream A Little Dream for Me." Even though by the '50s and '60s Armstrong's All Star shows were fairly standard rehashings of the tried and true hits, and C'EST SI BON is more of the same, one has only to hear the maestro's trumpet on "When The Saints Go Marching In," or his easy, grin-inducing delivery on "Sunny Side Of The Street" to succumb to the charms of the man who defined not only jazz, but most of modern American music as we know it.
Track listing
1. Kiss to Build a Dream On, A
2. Mack the Knife
3. Hello, Dolly!
4. Jeepers Creepers
5. Ain't Misbehavin'
6. Dream a Little Dream of Me
7. On the Sunny Side of the Street
8. C'Est Si Bon
9. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
10. Blueberry Hill
11. High Society
12. That's My Desire
13. St. Louis Blues
14. When the Saints Go Marching In
15. King Porter Stomp
16. Tiger Rag

CD is in good used condition