Traditional Jazz this week from the great Louis Armstrong, recorded live at Basin Street on New York's famed 52nd Street on May 7, 1955.

For those of you interested in the great "Mouldy Fig vs. Chinese Music" controversy (i.e. Dizzy Gillespie, high priest of Be-Bop, once proclaimed Louis Armstrong's Traditional Jazz as Mouldy Fig music and Armstrong fired back saying Gillespie was playing Chinese Music), Armstrong gets in a not-so-subtle dig at Gillespie mid-way through the broadcast.

All good fun and all good musical history via the weekly All-Star Parade Of Bands broadcasts.

The great Louis Armstrong tonight, recorded live at Basin Street in New York on May 28, 1956 as part of the weekly NBC Radio Series All Start Parade Of Bands.

Not too much to add other than this probably hasn't been reissued anywhere and may or may not have made the circles of radio collectors of live Jazz.

In any event, it's here and you get to enjoy it.

Back over to Birdland in New York this week for a set by Jazz legends Illinois Jacquet and Wild Bill Davis, each with their respective groups. The sets were broadcast as part of the Stars In Jazz series on NBC Radio in August of 1952.

Both Jacquet and Davis are in top form and the only problem is, they aren't at least an hour each - sadly, just fifteen minutes from each performer. But with history you have to take what you can get. And what's there is pretty tasty.

Enjoy.