I'm in the Barrel - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Louis
Gut Bucket Blues - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Louis
Come Back Sweet Papa - Louis Armstrong, Barbarin, Paul
Georgia Grind - Louis Armstrong, Williams, Spencer
Heebie Jeebies - Louis Armstrong, Atkins, Boyd
Cornet Chop Suey - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Louis
Oriental Strut - Louis Armstrong, Saint Cyr, Johnny
You're Next - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Louis
Muskrat Ramble - Louis Armstrong, Gilbert, Ray
Don't Forget to Mess Around - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Louis
I'm Gonna Gitcha - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Lil Hard
Droppin' Shucks - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Lil Hard
Who's It - Louis Armstrong, Jones [Composer]
King of the Zulus - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Lil
Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa - Louis Armstrong, Jones, Richard [1]
Lonesome Blues - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Lil Hard
Sweet Little Papa - Louis Armstrong, Ory, Edward
Jazz Lips - Louis Armstrong, Hardin, Lil
Skid-Dat-De-Dat - Louis Armstrong, Hardin, Lil
Big Butter and Egg Man - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Louis
Sunset Cafe Stomp - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Louis
You Made Me Love You - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Louis
Irish Black Bottom - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Louis
It's no exaggeration to say that Louis Armstrong recreated jazz in his own image, taking a collectively improvised music and remaking it into one in which the virtuoso soloist dominated. He did it by sheer invention and mu... more »sical superiority, and he did it in the midst of the finest polyphonic players that New Orleans music had produced. The beginnings of it can be heard in these 1925-26 recordings by the superb Hot Five, a band made up of clarinetist Johnny Dodds, trombonist Kid Ory, pianist Lil Hardin Armstrong, and banjoist Johnny St. Cyr. Armstrong was with the players he knew best, and the music is relaxed and lustrous, ranging from the beautiful cornet feature "Cornet Chop Suey" to the convivial "Gut Bucket Blues" and the first recording of Ory's "Muskrat Ramble." The summit of the New Orleans style and the dawn of the next phase in jazz, this is an essential CD for any jazz listener, not just for traditionalists. --Stuart Broomer« less
It's no exaggeration to say that Louis Armstrong recreated jazz in his own image, taking a collectively improvised music and remaking it into one in which the virtuoso soloist dominated. He did it by sheer invention and musical superiority, and he did it in the midst of the finest polyphonic players that New Orleans music had produced. The beginnings of it can be heard in these 1925-26 recordings by the superb Hot Five, a band made up of clarinetist Johnny Dodds, trombonist Kid Ory, pianist Lil Hardin Armstrong, and banjoist Johnny St. Cyr. Armstrong was with the players he knew best, and the music is relaxed and lustrous, ranging from the beautiful cornet feature "Cornet Chop Suey" to the convivial "Gut Bucket Blues" and the first recording of Ory's "Muskrat Ramble." The summit of the New Orleans style and the dawn of the next phase in jazz, this is an essential CD for any jazz listener, not just for traditionalists. --Stuart Broomer