Capsule review: Louis Armstrong - The definitive collection (1938-68) (2006 released)

Early Satchmo is another world, academic. I don't get it. Later Satchmo, the 'entertainer', is glorious, sentimental, over ripe. Somewhere in the middle is 'That lucky old sun (just rolls around heaven all day)' (1949), one of the best renditions (see also Ray Charles, the Caravans...) of maybe the prettiest song ever written.