Canal Street Blues - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Louis
Mandy Lee Blues - Louis Armstrong, Bloom, Marty
I'm Going Away to Wear You off My Mind - Louis Armstrong, Smith, W.
Chimes Blues - Louis Armstrong, King Oliver
Weather Bird Rag - Louis Armstrong, Armstrong, Louis
Dippermouth Blues - Louis Armstrong, King Oliver
Froggie Moore - Louis Armstrong, Morton, Jelly Roll
Snake Rag - Louis Armstrong, King Oliver
Alligator Hop - Louis Armstrong, King Oliver
Zulu's Ball - Louis Armstrong, King Oliver
Working Man Blues - Louis Armstrong, Hardin, Lil
Krooked Blues - Louis Armstrong, Johnson, Bill [1]
Mabel's Dream [1st Take] - Louis Armstrong, Smith, Ike
Mabel's Dream [2nd Take] - Louis Armstrong, Smith, Ike
Southern Stomp [1st Take] - Louis Armstrong, Jones, Richard [1]
Southern Stomp [2nd Take] - Louis Armstrong, Jones, Richard [1]
Riverside Blues - Louis Armstrong, Dorsey, Tommy [1]
Texas Moaner Blues - Louis Armstrong, Barnes, Fay
Of All the Wrongs You've Done to Me - Louis Armstrong, Dowell, Edgar
Terrible Blues - Louis Armstrong, Williams, Clarence
Santa Claus Blues - Louis Armstrong, Kahn, Gus
Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning - Louis Armstrong, Delaney, Pearl
Early in the Morning - Louis Armstrong, Higgins, William
Cake Walking Babies from Home - Louis Armstrong, Smith, Chris [Rhyth
When cornetist King Oliver invited Louis Armstrong to leave New Orleans and join the Creole Jazz Band in Chicago in 1922, he completed one of the greatest bands in jazz history. This CD includes the 1923 Gennett and Paramo... more »unt recordings, the world's introduction to the spirited rhythm and inspired contrapuntal improvisation of New Orleans music, highlighted by the dual cornet breaks of Oliver and Armstrong. The CD also includes Armstrong's 1924 recordings with the Red Onion Jazz Babies, some matching him with Sidney Bechet, the wonderful soprano saxophone pioneer, and the classic blues singer Alberta Hunter. --Stuart Broomer« less
When cornetist King Oliver invited Louis Armstrong to leave New Orleans and join the Creole Jazz Band in Chicago in 1922, he completed one of the greatest bands in jazz history. This CD includes the 1923 Gennett and Paramount recordings, the world's introduction to the spirited rhythm and inspired contrapuntal improvisation of New Orleans music, highlighted by the dual cornet breaks of Oliver and Armstrong. The CD also includes Armstrong's 1924 recordings with the Red Onion Jazz Babies, some matching him with Sidney Bechet, the wonderful soprano saxophone pioneer, and the classic blues singer Alberta Hunter. --Stuart Broomer
"'Louis Armstrong And King Oliver' should be considered a preview of the Hot Fives & Sevens that was to come. Armstrong's first recordings with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band are more ensemble oriented. He's the second cornet to King Oliver's cornet. (The cornet was a predecessor to the modern trumpet.) The double cornet breaks make for some lively dancehall jazz. . . This one also has seven tracks from the Red Onion Jazz Babies. They hail from Armstrong's first stint in New York City. "Cake Walking Babies From Home" is some of the earliest magic that Armstrong put to wax. This version is worth the price of admission. . . The sound quality for these 1923/1924 recordings is terrific. The early 90's compact disc are a lot better than the 1980's cassette of this material. This release does justice to the early recorded work of Louis Armstrong."
An essential CD for any serious jazz collector
Aaron The Baron | 09/27/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This CD belongs in any comprehensive jazz library, these are the historical and highly enjoyable sides that Louis Armstrong recorded with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, though on the CD Armstrong gets top billing, in reality King Oliver was the leader of these sessions which featured Armstrong as one of the sidemen, along with Lil Hardin on piano(the future Mrs. Armstrong, who would also record with Armstrong on his Hot Five & Seven sessions later in the 20's) these sides were originally released on 78's as King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. All the sideman get heatet solos(including Harding) Armstrong's and Oliver's solos are both hot and historicly important as being the 1st hot dixieland/New Orleans band to play it hot(not like Original Dixieland Jazzband). This innovative group was the finest at the time or anytime. Highly recomended."
Horrid sound.
Warren Steele | Massachusetts | 01/27/2006
(1 out of 5 stars)
"This is one of the most overly-filtered CDs I have ever heard. The Gennett sides often get dissed for being poorly recorded. It is reissues like this that give them a bad name. They are actually very lively recordings, but you'd never know it from listening to this dismal effort. Milestone has filtered every bit of scratch out -- and a tremendous amount of music was lost along with it. Dull, bland, lifeless, boxy -- any of these words could describe this reissue. I suspect they started with Nick Perls' work on the 1974 Herwin reissue and began filtering from there.
Don't waste your money on this awful CD."
Superceded, in part
bukhtan | Chicago, Illinois, USA | 07/07/2005
(3 out of 5 stars)
"This CD contains the Gennett, not the Okeh sides, less than half of the seminal early 78's recorded by Joe Oliver & Louis Armstrong. The two-CD set on Challenge includes all of these important early recordings of African American jazz music, re-mastered by the late great John R.T. Davies. To my ears, the Challenge set offers enormously better sound quality. And, oddly enough, it's cheaper on Amazon than the Milestone product, at least at this writing. But caveat emptor! I have seen a bootleg of the Challenge set floating around the used jazz bins in Chicago.
However, enthusiasts of the young Louis Armstrong may want to consider this CD for its inclusion of the Red Onion Jazz Babies sides, prototypes, you might say, of the Hot Five's and Hot Seven's. I don't know where else these might be available on CD. And these transfers, for some reason, are a bit more listenable on the Milestone issue than are the King Oliver numbers.
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Lousy Sound -- Get "Complete Set"
A techno geek | Kihei, Maui, HI USA | 09/05/2004
(1 out of 5 stars)
"You can hear from the Windows Media samples that the tracks have been filtered to death. A much more vibrant transcription of the same recordings is the wonderful "King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: The Complete Set"."