“Mack the Knife” — Louis Armstrong (1956)

I was listening to an archival radio broadcast from the late Phil Schaap about the swing jazz band man Tiny Bradshaw. In full Phil Schaap discursive mode, he briefly detoured to describe a recording that Louis Armstrong has made of &ldquo;Mack the Knife&rdquo; with Lotte Lenya, the singer who&rsquo;d made this song famous originally in the 1930&rsquo;s as part of Threepenny Opera. Mack the Knife…