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There was a single source for the collaborations with Ella - a 3-CD set with everything, including Porgy and Bess. Another 2-disc set released the sessions with Russell Garcia. Then there is the album with Oscar Peterson. That is about it, right?

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Not an answer to your question, Jim, but just wanted to recommend this 2-CD overview to anybody wanting a representation of Armstrong's Verve period, if they can find it cheap:

http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Do-It-Verve-Years/dp/B000004702

...picked it up for $3.99 at an Indianapolis record store several years ago and listened to it all the way through several times during commutes between Bloomington and Indy. Good liner notes by Dan Morgenstern as well.

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There's a whole disc of alternates with OP as the final disc of the "Satchmo: Ambassador of Jazz" box set from four or five years ago.Available separately on ITunes I think. . . .

Edited as Alex noticed the erroneous box set title.

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.. the 2-CD set with Russell Garcia ...

don't know that one, which is it?

as for alternates, a pair (of the same tune) are on the "Verve Elite Edition Collector's Disc" - and I think the bonustracks on the "Louis & OP" album were all taken from the Ella sessions, but I may be wrong (can't double check right now)

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I love the Armstrong Russell Garcia albums. There is something very majestic and deep about Armstrong's singing and playing on those albums. The 2-disc set contains a number of alternates, false starts, etc. from the sessions in addition to the masters released on the two albums. .

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Thanks, that sounds good enough for me!

Still need that Hip-O-Select double as well ... tended to ignore late Louis way too long!

You mean the Symphony Hall one? Do not forget the Hollywood Bowl as well.

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There's a whole disc of alternates with OP as the final disc of the Hello Louis! box set from four or five years ago.Available separately on ITunes I think,. . . .

Yes it's called A Day with Satchmo and contains the masters as well as the alternates.

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There's a whole disc of alternates with OP as the final disc of the Hello Louis! box set from four or five years ago.Available separately on ITunes I think,. . . .

Yes it's called A Day with Satchmo and contains the masters as well as the alternates.

You mean this one I assume: https://thejazzword.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/one-day-in-the-studio-with-satchmo/

Lon, I see that the Hello Louis! is just a 2-cd set with no alternates as far as I can read. Do you mean by any chance, the final disc of the trumpet-case 10-Cd set Satchmo - Ambassador of Jazz?

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There's a whole disc of alternates with OP as the final disc of the Hello Louis! box set from four or five years ago.Available separately on ITunes I think,. . . .

Yes it's called A Day with Satchmo and contains the masters as well as the alternates.

You mean this one I assume: https://thejazzword.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/one-day-in-the-studio-with-satchmo/

Yes.

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Would love to hear that disc 10! - but preferrably not as MP3 (I don't do iTunes anyways, don't even have it installed any longer).

The 2CD set with the Garcia-arranged album seems to be on its way, a "used - very good" copy from a vendor on amazon marketplace. Crossing fingers that it will look more or less okay!

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.. the 2-CD set with Russell Garcia ...

don't know that one, which is it?

I've Got the World on a String/Under the Stars 2 cd on Verve.

I'd stronly assume this should come with a booklet as all Verve Master Edition reissues do, right? The used copy I bought just arrived, but no booklet, alas ...

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