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 Louis Armstrong: The 25 Greatest Hot Fives & Hot Sevens


Name:  Louis Armstrong: The 25 Greatest Hot Fives & Hot Sevens
Artist: Louis Armstrong

Styles: Easy Listening - Vocal - Jazz - Early Jazz - Trumpet - Instruments - Vocalists - Male
Media: Audio CD
Release Date: June 1995
Label: Living Era
  
UPC Catalogue No: 743625517125
Amazon Sales Ranking: 6104
Number of Discs: 1

Tracks

 1  Heebie Jeebies - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
 2  Cornet Chop Suey - Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars
 3  Muskrat Ramble - Louis Armstrong
 4  Jazz Lips - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
 5  Skid-Dat-De-Dat - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
 6  Big Butter and Egg Man - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
 7  Willie the Weeper - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
 8  Wild Man Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
 9  Alligator Crawl - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
 10  Potato Head Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
 11  Melancholy - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
 12  Weary Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven
 13  Struttin' With Some Barbecue - Louis Armstrong
 14  Once in a While - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
 15  I'm Not Rough - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
 16  Hotter Than That - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
 17  Savoy Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
 18  Skip the Gutter - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
 19  West End Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
 20  Basin Street Blues - Louis Armstrong
 21  Beau Koo Jack - Louis Armstrong
 22  Weather Bird - Louis Armstrong
 23  Muggles - Louis Armstrong
 24  St. James Infirmary - Louis Armstrong
 25  Tight Like This - Louis Armstrong

Customer Reviews

 
Some of the greatest music in Jazz Rating: 5.0

I first listened to the Hot Five and Seven in my late teens (25 years ago), when I was new to Jazz, and haven't heard them much since. I got this CD recently and wonder why I left it so long to listen to them again. I think these recordings stand with the greatest ever made in Jazz. The works are fresh, innovative and original. I think Louis Armstrong is the greatest natural musician I have ever heard, and he is at the peak of his powers in these recordings. My favourites are Willie the Weeper and West End Blues, which is widely ranked as one of the most perfect recordings ever made in Jazz. I have nothing but superlatives for this CD !


 
Brilliant - but not exclusive enough Rating: 4.0

Some of the most important and beautiful recordings of the last century, but in spite of being entitled 'The Twenty-five Greatest Hot Fives and Hot Sevens', the CD includes six tracks which are by neither. The tracks are brilliant but there are other brilliant tracks by the Hot Five and Hot Seven that could have been included - off the top of my head - S.O.L. Blues, The Last Time and Ory's Creole Trombone among them. Otherwise a well-produced CD and a snip at the price.


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