What a Wonderful World

Louis Armstrong · 1967

Context

Recorded in Las Vegas in August 1967 by Louis Armstrong, this track was first snubbed in the United States, as ABC's management did not want to promote it. It became number one in the United Kingdom in 1968. Its reissue in 1988, after its use in Good Morning, Vietnam, brought it into the US Hot 100. Armstrong asked only for the union rate.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Mood Indigo (Armstrong-Ellington) (1961)
• Summertime (1957)
• Autumn in New York (1957)
• Cheek to Cheek (1956)
• Stars Fell on Alabama (1956)
• Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (1947)

Sources

• EN: What a Wonderful World

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