Louis Wishes You a Cool Yule

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It’s been an amazing honor to work with our colleagues at UMe and the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation team to get Mr. Nicholas' (also known as 'The Night Before Christmas'), with fellow New Orleans jazz icon Sullivan Fortner providing a gorgeous musical underbed. Also available on red vinyl LP and limited edition vinyl picture disc LP, released November 11, 2022.

The collection debuted in the Top 10 across multiple Billboard charts (dated November 26), including Top Holiday Albums where it bowed at No. Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation is thrilled to see this iconic music from our favorite artist earn a spot on today’s music charts, and we are thankful that Verve chose to share this compilation around the world,” said Jackie Harris, LAEF executive director. Beloved around the world just like Santa Claus himself, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong devoted his life to “the cause of happiness,” as he once put it, giving the gift of joy every time he put his trumpet to his lips or crooned with his gravel voice. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Louis Wishes You a Cool Yule, is the first Louis Armstrong Christmas record ever and presents his holiday tracks as cohesive body of work for the first time!To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. LOUIS WISHES YOU A COOL YULE, is the first Louis Armstrong Christmas record ever and presents his holiday tracks as cohesive body of work for the first time! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Includes a previously unheard recording of Louis' touching reading of Samuel Clement Moore's poem 'A Visit from St.

Nicholas” (also known as “The Night Before Christmas”), with fellow New Orleans jazz icon Sullivan Fortner providing a gorgeous musical underbed. Louis Wishes You a Cool Yule', is the first Louis Armstrong Christmas record ever and presents his holiday tracks as cohesive body of work for the first time. Louis Armstrong’s first album of holiday-associated songs is an auspicious aural example of why he was a man for all seasons, singing and playing his Promethean trumpet in the cause of happiness,” said Wynton Marsalis, president of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation (LAEF). The narration is one of two tapes of it recorded by Armstrong and this one is unedited and released for the first time.Includes a previously unheard recording of Louis’ touching reading of Samuel Clement Moore’s poem “A Visit from St. His reading of ‘The Night Before Christmas,’ with my New Orleans homeboy, Sullivan Fortner on piano, is a swinging Crescent City Christmas card. Just seeing how this holiday record is being embraced is proof positive that LAEF’s archival placement is something to celebrate.