Louis Armstrong – Best Of The Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings

Description

Release Year: 2002

Label: Sony Music

Track List

1. Heebie Jeebies
2. Muskrat Ramble
3. King Of The ZulusJazz Lips
4. Willie The Weeper
5. Wild Man Blues
6. Alligator Crawl
7. Potato Head Blues
8. Weary Blues
9. Ory’s Creole Trombone
10. Struttin’ With Some Barbecue
11. West End Blues
12. Squeeze Me
13. Basin Street Blues
14. Beau Koo Jack
15. Muggles
16. St. James Infirmary
17. Tight Like This

Notes

The 18 performance presented here represent a template for small ensembles that continues to this day, and likely will endure as long as there are jazz groups. They are also hallmarked by some of the most profound and perpetually influential solos ever hears, anywhere. The genius of cornetist, Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) was in full flower during the mid-to-late 1920s when, at the helm of his Hot Five, then Hot Seven, he forged one incandescent, epic solo after another. He was, concurrently, beginning to create a vocal style that would come to define the swinging American approach to a song, one that would be adopted in various ways by singers everywhere.