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The Best of the Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings

Album

The Best of the Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings

Louis Armstrong

2002Jazz · Music · Vocal · Easy Listening · Swing · Traditional Pop · Vocal Jazz · Dixieland · Trad Jazz

Discover the roots of jazz among these timeless early tracks.
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Details

Release date
Record label
Columbia/Legacy
Tracks
18

℗ Originally Released 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1940, (P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Tracks

  1. 1
    Heebie Jeebies
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    3:01
  2. 2
    Muskrat Ramble
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    2:30
  3. 3
    King of the Zulus
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    3:02
  4. 4
    Jazz Lips
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    2:59
  5. 5
    Willie the Weeper
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
    3:06
  6. 6
    Wild Man Blues
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
    3:08
  7. 7
    Alligator Crawl
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
    3:01
  8. 8
    Potato Head Blues
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
    2:55
  9. 9
    Weary Blues
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
    2:58
  10. 10
    Ory's Creole Trombone
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    3:02
  11. 11
    Struttin' With Some Barbecue (78 rpm Version)
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    3:04
  12. 12
    West End Blues
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    3:18
  13. 13
    Squeeze Me
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot SevenCarroll Dickerson Orchestra
    3:22
  14. 14
    Basin Street Blues
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
    3:14
  15. 15
    Beau Koo Jack
    Louis Armstrong & His Savoy Ballroom Five
    2:58
  16. 16
    Muggles
    Louis Armstrong and His Hot SevenCarroll Dickerson Orchestra
    2:49
  17. 17
    St. James Infirmary
    Louis Armstrong & His Savoy Ballroom Five
    3:18
  18. 18
    Tight Like This
    Louis Armstrong & His Savoy Ballroom Five
    3:11

About this album

Virtually the entire ensuing history of jazz springs from the timeless tracks on this distillation of a four-album box set collecting Armstrong's small-group recordings from 1926 to 1928. "Heebie Jeebies" contains one of the earliest examples of scat singing; Armstrong's solo introduction to "West End Blues" marks a joyful moment of rhythmic liberation; and his elegant, idea-drenched trumpet solo in "Potato Head Blues" gave Woody Allen something to live for in Manhattan.