LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS ORCHESTRA – 1940-1942 | The Classics Chronological Series –685 (1993) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

While MCA continues to release incomplete samplers of his Decca recordings, the European Classics series has reissued the great trumpeter's performances the best possible way: complete and in chronological order. This final CD has 18 mostly rare big band selections from 1940-42 (highlighted by "I Cover the Waterfront," a remake of "When It's Sleepy Time down South," "Coquette" and "I Never Knew"), along with the four songs recorded by Armstrong during a reunion session with the great soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet (including a heated "Down in Honky Tonk Town"). Ignore the better publicized MCA Louis Armstrong reissues, and get this series instead. Scott Yanow   
Tracklist :
1     Cut off My Legs and Call Me "Shorty" 2:33
Edna Alexander / Don Raye
2     Cain and Abel 3:01
Fensteck / Loman   
3     Perdido Street Blues 3:04
Lil Hardin
4     2:19 Blues 2:52
Mamie Desdume
5     Down in Honky Tonk Town 3:03
Chris Smith / Trixie Smith
6     Coal Cart Blues 2:55
Louis Armstrong / Lil Hardin
7     Ev'rything's Been Done Before 3:04
Harold Adamson / Charles E. King / Edwin Knopf
8     I Cover the Waterfront 3:12
Johnny Green / Edward Heyman
9     In the Gloaming 2:56
Annie Fortescue Harrison / Meta Orred
10     Long, Long Ago 2:51
Thomas Haynes Bayly
11     Hey, Lawdy Mama 2:57
Jim Eaton / Terry Shand
12     I'll Get Mine Bye and Bye 3:03
Jimmie Davis
13     Now, Do You Call That a Buddy? 3:18
W. Wilson
14     Yes, Suh! 2:19
Edgar Dowell / Andy Razaf
15     When It's Sleepy Time Down South 3:09
Clarence Muse / Otis Rene / Leon René
16     Leap Frog 2:57
Leo Corday / Joe Garland
17     I Used to Love You (But It's All over Now) 2:57
Lew Brown / Albert Von Tilzer
18     You Rascal You 2:58
Sam Theard
19     (Get Some) Cash for Your Trash 3:01
Ed Kirkeby / Fats Waller
20     Among My Souvenirs 2:44
Edgar Leslie / Horatio Nicholls
21     Coquette 2:34
Irving Berlin
22     I Never Knew 2:44
Gus Kahn / Ted Fio Rito