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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Gut Bucket Blues
2. My Heart
3. Yes I'm in the Barrel
4. Come Back, Sweet Papa
5. Georgia Grind
6. Heebie Jeebies
7. Cornet Chop Suey
8. Oriental Strut
9. You're Next
10. Muskrat Ramble
11. Don't Forget to Mess Around
12. I'm Gonna Gitcha
13. Droppin' Shucks
14. Who'sit
15. King of the Zulus
16. Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa
17. Lonesome Blues
18. Sweet Little Papa
19. Jazz Lips
20. Skid-Dat-de-Dat
21. Big Butter and Egg Man
22. Sunset Cafe Stomp
23. You Made Me Love You
24. Irish Black Bottom
25. Pause Track
DISC 2:
1. Put 'Em Down Blues
2. Ory's Creole Trombone
3. Last Time, The
4. Struttin' With Some Barbecue
5. Got No Blues
6. Once in a While
7. I'm Not Rough
8. Hotter Than That
9. Savoy Blues
10. He Likes It Slow
11. Gambler's Dream
12. Sunshine Baby
13. Adam and Eve Had the Blues
14. Put It Where I Can Get It
15. Wash Woman Blues
16. I've Stoppped My Man
17. Georgia Bo Bo
18. Drop That Sack - (common take)
19. Drop That Sack - (rare take)
20. Cornet Chop Suey - (in E flat)
21. Pause Track
DISC 3:
1. Willie the Weeper
2. Wild Man Blues
3. Alligator Crawl
4. Potato Head Blues
5. Melancholy
6. Weary Blues
7. Twelfth Street Rag
8. Keyhole Blues
9. S.O.L. Blues
10. Gully Low Blues
11. That's When I'll Come Back to You
12. Chicago Breakdown
13. Weary Blues (Dodds)
14. New Orleans Stomp
15. Wild Man Blues (Dodds) - (common take)
16. Wild Man Blues (Dodds) - (rare take)
17. Melancholy (Dodds) - (common take)
18. Melancholy (Dodds) - (rare take)
19. You're a Real Sweetheart
20. Too Busy
21. Was It a Dream?
22. Last Night I Dreamed You Kissed Me
23. Pause Track
DISC 4:
1. Fireworks
2. Skip the Gutter
3. Monday Date, A
4. Don't Jive Me
5. West End Blues
6. Sugar Foot Strut
7. Two Deuces
8. Squeeze Me
9. Knee Drops
10. No (Papa, No)
11. Basin Street Blues
12. No One Else But You
13. Beau Koo Jack
14. Save It, Pretty Mama
15. Muggles
16. Hear Me Talkin' to Ya
17. St. James Infirmary
18. Tight Like This
19. Weather Bird
20. I Can't Give You Anything But Love - (common take)
21. I Can't Give You Anything But Love - (rare take)
22. Mahogany Hall Stomp
23. Knockin' a Jug
24. Pause Track
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet, cornet, slide whistle); Lil Hardin Armstrong (vocals, piano); Joe "Butterbeans" Edwards, Susie Edwards (vocals); Johnny Dodds (alto saxophone, clarinet); Jimmy Strong (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Barney Bigard (tenor saxophone); Kid Ory, Fred Robinson, J.C. Higginbotham, Jack Teagarden (trombone); Jimmie Noone (clarinet); Earl "Fatha" Hines (piano, celeste); Hersal Thomas, Louis Russell (piano); Johnny St. Cyr, Dave Wilborn (guitar, banjo); Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Lang (guitar); Eddie Condon (banjo); Pops Foster (bass); Warren "Baby" Dodds, Tubby Hall, Zutty Singleton, Paul Barbarin, Kaiser Marshall (drums).
Producers include: Richard M. Jones, Tommy Rockwell.
Compilation producer: Phil Schaap.
Recorded between 1925 and 1929. Includes liner notes by Phil Schaap, Robert G. O'Meally and George Avakian.
Digitally remastered by Seth Foster, Ken Robertson, Tom "Curly" Ruff, Phil Schaap, and Mark Wilder.
THE COMPLETE HOT FIVES AND HOT SEVEN RECORDINGS won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Historical Album.
So much has been said about Louis Armstrong's groundbreaking recordings with his Hot Five and Hot Seven ensembles that to add more is to risk overstating the obvious. Suffice it to say that this four-disc box set, which collects all the recordings Armstrong made with both groups between 1925 and 1929, is of inestimable historical and musical importance. Everything about the music, from the taut, sassy interplay of the musicians, to Satchmo's dazzling chops on the cornet, to his extemporaneous scatting (the first recorded instance of what would become a jazz technique), is a revelation. The contents of the set, in structure and in spirit, is the nucleus of the entire jazz movement, and the sumptuous packaging, excellent sound, and detailed notes make it a cornerstone for any self-respecting music collection.
Industry Reviews
3.5 records of 5 - ...Reveals why Armstrong was jazz's first superstar. The versatile arrangements, brilliant songwriting, exquisite hornplay, and passionate vocal delivery on this set laid the foundation for modern music...
Vibe (10/01/2000)
...The Rosetta Stone of jazz....We witness Armstrong transforming jazz from attractive folk music performed by collectives into art music energized by the creative power of one man's intuitive ability to make it swing...
JazzTimes (10/01/2000)
...Spectacular....the music has been remastered [and] adjusted so that the material plays at the same pitch it was originally recorded....A quality package of some of jazz's most important recordings.
CMJ (08/28/2000)
...He redefined what was possible in improvised jazz melody and jazz singing. These sides are to jazz what Chaucer is to literature...
Mojo (11/01/2000)
Ranked #1 in EW's Top 3 Jazz Albums of 2000 - ...Utterly indispensable...
Entertainment Weekly (12/29/2000)
5 stars out of 5 - ...Documents the crucial early steps of Armstrong's journey....[with] his knack for generating soaring melodies, his ability to make his enthusiasm for everything he played feel contagious...and the order in which he got things done...
Rolling Stone (09/14/2000)
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