The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings [Columbia/Legacy]

by Louis Armstrong

Overview

This four-CD set brings together all the recordings made during the period of the Hot Five and Hot Sevens along with all the attendant recordings that Armstrong was involved in during this breakthrough period. Although this material has been around the block several times before -- and continues to be available in packages greatly varying in transfer quality -- this is truly the way to go, and certainly the most deluxe packaging this material has ever received with the greatest sound retrieval yet employed. In addition to sounding better than the competition, it also sensibly lays out all the recordings Satchmo made during this period, grouping all the original Hot Five recordings from 1925 to 1927 (and all attendant material) together on the first two discs, all of the Hot Sevens on disc three, with the final disc devoted to the second coming of the Hot Five in 1928 along with the attendant material from the following year. There are also several categories of "bonus tracks" aboard this deluxe set, including the "Lil's Hot Shots" 1926 Hot Five Vocalion recordings, a 1927 Johnny Dodds session that became the prototype for the Hot Seven recordings that soon followed, and the only known alternate take of "I Can't Give You Anything but Love." You can't have a Louis Armstrong collection without this historic set. Come to think of it, you can't have any kind of respectable jazz collection without it, either. Beyond indispensable. ~ Cub Koda

Product Details

Release Date:	10/26/1999
Label:	Jsp
UPC:	0788065010027
Rank:	52240

Tracks

Disc 1

1. My Heart
2. Yes! I'm in the Barrel
3. Gut Bucket Blues
4. Come Back, Sweet Papa
5. Georgia Grind
6. Heebie Jeebies
7. Cornet Shop Suey
8. Oriental Strut
9. You're Next
10. Muskrat Ramble
11. Don't Forget to Mess Around
12. I'm Gonna Gitcha
13. Dropping Shucks
14. Who' Sit
15. He Likes It Slow
16. The King of the Zulus
17. Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa
18. Lonesome Blues
19. Sweet Little Papa
20. Jazz Lips
21. Skid-Dat-de-Dat
22. Big Butter and Egg Man From the West
23. Sunset Cafe Stomp
24. You Made Me Love You
25. Irish Black Bottom

Disc 2

26. Willie the Weeper
27. Wild Man Blues
28. Chicago Breakdown
29. Alligator Crawl
30. Potato Head Blues
31. Melancholy Blues
32. Weary Blues
33. Twelfth Street Rag
34. Keyhole Blues
35. S.O.L. Blues
36. Gully Low Blues
37. That's When I'll Come Back to You
38. Put 'Em Down Blues
39. Ory's Creole Trombone
40. The Last Time
41. Struttin' With Some Barbecue
42. Got No Blues
43. Once in a While
44. I'm Not Rough
45. Hotter Than That
46. Savoy Blues

Disc 3

47. Fireworks
48. Skip the Gutter
49. A Monday Date
50. Don't Jive Me
51. West End Blues
52. Sugar Foot Strut
53. Two Deuces
54. Squeeze Me
55. Knee Drops
56. Symphonic Raps
57. Savoyagers' Stomp
58. No (No Papa No)
59. Basin Street Blues
60. No-One Else But You
61. Beau Koo Jack
62. Save It, Pretty Mama
63. Weather Bird
64. Muggles
65. Heah Me Talkin' to Ya?
66. St. James Infirmary
67. Tight Like This
68. Knockin' a Jug

Disc 4

69. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
70. Mahogany Hall Stomp
71. Ain't Misbehavin'
72. Black and Blue?, (What Did I Do to Be So)
73. That Rhythm Man
74. Sweet Savannah Sue
75. Some of These Days
76. Some of These Days
77. When You're Smiling
78. When You're Smiling
79. After You've Gone
80. Ain't Got Nobody
81. Dallas Blues
82. St. Louis Blues
83. Rockin' Chair
84. Song of the Islands
85. Bessie Couldn't Help It
86. Blue, Turning Grey Over You
87. Dear Old Southland
88. Rockin' Chair
89. I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Louis Armstrong   Primary Artist
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra   Primary Artist
Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five   Primary Artist
Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven   Primary Artist
Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven   Primary Artist
Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers   Primary Artist
Louis Armstrong & His Savoy Ballroom Five   Primary Artist
Eddie Condon   Guest Artist
Earl Hines   Guest Artist
Jack Teagarden   Guest Artist
Kid Ory   Guest Artist
Barney Bigard   Guest Artist
Johnny Dodds   Guest Artist
Lil Hardin Armstrong   Guest Artist
Hoagy Carmichael   Guest Artist

Technical Credits

Tommy Rockwell   Audio Production
Richard M. Jones   Audio Production,Composer
Phil Schaap   Compilation Producer
William Johnstone   Composer
Charles A. Bayha   Composer
Charles E. King   Composer
Michael Edwards   Composer
Byron Warner   Composer
Meta Orred   Composer
Eloise Bennett   Composer
Ronald Isley   Composer
V. Spivey   Composer
Percy Venable   Composer
Luis Russell   Composer
Jelly Roll Morton   Composer
Ned Miller   Composer
Matty Matlock   Composer
Maurice Abrahams   Composer
Ray Gilbert   Composer
Rudolph Isley   Composer
Marvin Isley   Composer
Earl Hines   Composer
O'Kelly Isley   Composer
Henry Creamer   Composer
Herbert Stothart   Composer
Hociel Thomas   Composer
Hoagy Carmichael   Composer
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Billy Moll   Composer
Irving Caesar   Composer
Chris Jasper   Composer
Jimmie Davis   Composer
Clarence Williams   Composer
Cleve Reed   Composer
F. Biggs   Composer
Eddie Condon   Composer
Edward Heyman   Composer
Carmen Lombardo   Composer
Don Redman   Composer
Dorothy Fields   Composer
Joe Primrose   Composer
W. Butler   Composer
Wesley Wilson   Composer
Johnny Green   Composer
Louis Alter   Composer
Lloyd Garrett   Composer
A. Curl   Composer
Artie Matthews   Composer
Murray Mencher   Composer
Billie Pierce   Composer
J. Edwards   Composer
Marty Bloom   Composer
Edna Alexander   Composer
Lester Carr   Composer
Larry Spier   Composer
Bill Ewing   Composer
Annie Fortescue Harrison   Composer
Langston Curl   Composer
W. Wilson   Composer
Henry Myers   Composer
Edward "Kid" Ory   Composer
Grant Rymal   Composer
Frank Biggs   Composer
Edgar Dowell   Composer
Hart A. Wand   Composer
Charles Schwab   Composer
Harry Brooks   Composer
Alex Hill   Composer
Gus Kahn   Composer
Harold Adamson   Composer
Turner Layton   Composer
Spencer Williams   Composer
Stanley Turrentine   Composer
Paul Barbarin   Composer
Paul Denniker   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Shelton Brooks   Composer
Sidney Mitchell   Composer
Sydney Robin   Composer
Andy Razaf   Composer
Steve B.   Composer
Big Maceo Merriweather   Composer
Eddie DeLange   Composer
Boyd Atkins   Composer
Ian Carr   Composer
Kid Ory   Composer
King Oliver   Composer
Jacques Richmond   Composer
Chester Cohn   Composer
Joe Goodwin   Composer
Duke Ellington   Composer
William Butler   Composer
Chucky Thompson   Composer
Larry Shay   Composer
Jo Trent   Composer
Joe Davis   Composer
Cliff Friend   Composer
Fats Waller   Composer
Charlie Dixon   Composer
Edwin H. Morris   Composer
Euday L. Bowman   Composer
Don Raye   Composer
W.C. Handy   Composer
James V. Monaco   Composer
Ernie Isley   Composer
Johnny St. Cyr   Composer
Victoria Spivey   Composer
Maceo Pinkard   Composer
Lil Hardin Armstrong   Composer
Walter Melrose   Composer
Mark Fisher   Composer
Louis Armstrong   Composer
Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner   Composer
I. Abrams   Composer
Lil Armstrong   Composer
Robbie Robertson   Composer
Sam Coslow   Composer
Lil Hardin   Composer
Sara Martin   Composer