Hot Fives, Vol. 1

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Fact: Some seventy years ago, Louis Armstrong was bigger than the Beatles. Fact: Louis' record sales provided the seed money for some of today's great communications empires. Fact: Pops' startling trumpet prowess and ingratiating vocals transformed the phrasing of every instrumentalist and vocalist on earth--and these are the sessions that started it all. Having performed as the second cornet with spiritual father Joe "King" Oliver's legendary New Orleans band, he turned everybody's head in New York during his stint with Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra in 1924. Then at wife Lil Hardin's insistence, he returned to Chicago in 1925, which led to the first of his supersessions for the Okeh label--fronting an all-star band assembled just for the studio. Even amid the traditional New Orleans polyphony and ensemble work of "Gut Bucket Blues," the sheer power of Armstrong's cornet pulls along the rest of the band like a locomotive (and in setting the infectious closing riff, he not only anticipates the swing era but Dizzy Gillespie's "Salt Peanuts"). By the time we get to the 1926 sessions, featuring his innovative "scat singing" on "Heebie Jeebies" and his dynamic stop-time phrases on "Cornet Chop Suey," Louis Armstrong is well on his way to transforming jazz into a soloist's art, and himself into the most influential musician of the 20th century. --Chip Stern --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 1
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Essential music, great sound
  • Superb Stuff
 Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 1
Louis Armstrong
Manufacturer: Jsp Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000061O8
Release Date: 1998-05-05

Tracks:

  1. My Heart
  2. Yes! I'm In The The Barrel
  3. Gut Bucket Blues
  4. Come Back, Sweet Papa
  5. Georgia Grind
  6. Heebie Jeebies
  7. Comet 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. 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

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Essential music, great sound.......2001-01-15

JSP's remastering of these 1920's tracks is terrific! Liner notes include master numbers, personnel, and dates. Tip : Spring for the JSP box set "Hot Fives and Sevens", which is all four volumes in this series in a slip-case at less than half the price of the individual parts.

5 out of 5 stars Superb Stuff.......1998-09-02

Wonderfully joyous music. The remastering on the JSP label is awesome. The same goes for Volume 2.

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