The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

Louis Armstrong - The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
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Artist: Louis Armstrong
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 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's It
  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]
Music CD 2
  1. Put 'Em Down Blues
  2. Ory's Creole Trombone
  3. Last Time
  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. Washwoman Blues
  16. I've Stopped My Man
  17. Georgia Bo Bo
  18. Drop That Sack [Common Take]
  19. Drop That Sack [Rare Take]
  20. Cornet Chop Suey
  21. [Pause Track]
Music CD 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
  14. New Orleans Stomp
  15. Wild Man Blues
  16. Wild Man Blues
  17. Melancholy
  18. Melancholy
  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]
Music CD 4
  1. Fireworks
  2. Skip the Gutter
  3. Monday Date
  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]

Free Music Notes for The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

Free Music Review: One More Time
Hit: 5 Stars

In college, I took a course in the philosophy of the "Modern." Our first assignment was to define "modern," and I borrowed a friend's tape recorder and copied "Potato Head Blues" from my Columbia LP. To the spool I attached a note that said "Listen to the improvised solo, and then listen again." My professor --a sculptor as well as an academic-- returned the spool with his own note that said I kept him from doing any work for two hours, because all he could do was play it over and over again. In fact, that is precisely what happened to me when I heard that unbelievable track for the first time.

This is the seminal music of the most important musician of the Twentieth Century. He is joined by colleagues who on their own were most-highly- regarded, but especially for younger folk, who only knew Armstrong as the artist-entertainer or amazingly popular singer of songs often with only middling value, here is the humble revolutionary. Armstrong takes what he learned and simply transforms it into a unique, lasting idiom --nothing less than that. He defines the standards of jazz forever, and he does it so completely that you will be thunderstruck.

He invents popular singing, he leads an intensely swinging series of groups, and most of all he plays trumpet. Technically, he may have been the greatest player of his instrument ever --no matter the category of music. But his improvisations soar with a simplicity that goes to the marrow of art.

One critic has called architecture "frozen music," and Armstrong's solos, and forgive me if I just hear "Potato Head" over and over in my mind as I write, are perfectly defined as "liquid architecture."

And now, if you will excuse me, I think I will listen to some music...again...and again....

The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings Poster

Everybody knows Louis Armstrong--even if it's just for his heart-pleasing renditions of "Hello Dolly" and "What a Wonderful World." Well, this four-CD box set marking the 100th anniversary of his birth--give or take a year--contains some of his most groundbreaking, historic works. Recorded between 1925 and 1929, the Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings find Armstrong with more than able cohorts, including pianists Earl "Fatha" Hines and Lillian Hardin (Armstrong's second wife), clarinetist-saxophonist Johnny Dodds, and trombonist Kid Ory. Recorded when Armstrong was emerging from the influence of his idol, Joe "King" Oliver, these sides feature the main staples of the Armstrong canon, including "Potato Head Blues," "Big Butter and Egg Man," "Cornet Chop Suey" and the Armstrong-Hines duet "Weather Bird." The jewel of the collection is "West End Blues," with Armstrong's stratospheric, pyramid-structured solo, which ranks as one of the greatest in the history of music. The sessions also mark an important technological breakthrough, with the transition from acoustic to electrical recording.

Armstrong's virtuosity on the cornet and trumpet alone would have been enough to ensure his fame. On the 1927 song "Heebie Jeebies," he forgot the lyrics and scatted them and became the first jazz singer, paving the way for Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, and Betty Carter. All in all, this set shows that Louis Armstrong's heroic talents enabled him to become the alpha and omega of 20th century music. As author Robert O'Meally, who wrote the superb liner notes to this well-packaged collection, puts it, "like Chaucer's poetry, which virtually begins the process of codifying the English language as a medium for sophisticated versification, Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens provide a wide launching pad from which the history of the art of jazz takes flight." --Eugene Holley Jr.

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