Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Available to Download Now
 
Buy the MP3 album for £19.49
  
 
 
 
Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available for
Colour:
Image not available

 
Share your own customer images

Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings [Box set]

Louis Armstrong | Format: Audio CD
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Available from these sellers.


Buy the MP3 album for £19.49 at the Amazon MP3 Downloads store.

Amazon's Louis Armstrong Store

Music

Image of album by Louis Armstrong

Photos

Image of Louis Armstrong
›
Visit Amazon's Louis Armstrong Store
for 880 albums, 6 photos, discussions, and more.

Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed

Product details

  • Audio CD (4 Sep 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Legacy
  • ASIN: B00004WK37
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 226,349 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
Disc: 1
1. Gut Bucket Blues
2. My Heart
3. Yes! I'm In The Barrel
4. Come Back, Sweet Papa
5. Georgia Grind
See all 25 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Put 'Em Down Blues
2. Ory's Creole Trombone
3. The Last Time
4. Struttin' With Some Barbecue
5. Got No Blues
See all 21 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. Willie The Weeper
2. Wild Man Blues
3. Alligator Crawl
4. Potato Head Blues
5. Melancholy
See all 23 tracks on this disc
Disc: 4
1. Firworks
2. Skip The Gutter
3. A Monday Date
4. Don't Jive Me
5. West End Blues
See all 24 tracks on this disc

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk

Classics don't come more classic than this. It was with this series of recordings, made between 1925 and 1929, that Armstrong laid the foundations for jazz as we know it today. But historical significance aside, these 89 tracks contain some of the most elegant and moving jazz ever recorded. There have been complete editions of this material before, but probably none so carefully prepared or so lavishly presented as this. The four discs are contained in a hardback book, packed with period pictures and detailed notes, all inside a cardboard slip-case. As well as every number recorded under the names of the Hot Five and Hot Seven, Columbia have included other work recorded by Armstrong at around the same time--for instance, those by the Hot Five under the name of its pianist, Louis's wife, Lil, as "Lil's Hot Shots". The sound of these old tracks has been sensitively restored, many being heard at exactly the right speed for the first time in half a century or more, and all arranged in the original recording sequence. This means that we can follow the evolution of a great 20th-century artist, from early promise to full maturity. --Dave Gelly

Customer Reviews

5 star
3
4 star
0
3 star
0
2 star
0
1 star
0
5.0 out of 5 stars
3 reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Historical and amazing... the feeling dripping out of this music is unique 2 May 2009
By David Calcano VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
I'm just a fool for box sets and I've been looking for this one for ages until I finally found it at a reasonable price. I tell you the music here is unbelievable and I shuold have bought it before!
The groove from Louis and his players will take you to that New Orleans of the 1920s that all of of us have in our heads because of legends, movies or what have you; but this IS the REAL thing, the beginning of one of the greatest musicians of the century. But, this is quality, love and feeling translated in notes that will make you smile all the way through.

I was listening to the cds along reading the liner notes, and is just an experience in itself, the pictures from the era, Louis as a boy, how he got to play with his heroes the 'King' Joe Oliver and ultimately got a contract with Okeh records to form his own band 'The Hot Five' the first legendary Jazz quintet.

The journey of this box set take you throughout the beginnings and let you inside the evolutions and changes in the lineups of the band evolving into the 'hot seven', sometimes 'Hot Four' with no clarinet... but to me was fascinating to hear this man's voice he just got it in his blood as he said himself. These were early recordings but in my mind you feel as he lived for generations to sing in such a style and blues feeling coming out of his vocal lines.

There's no way anyone wouldn't love this collection, everything from it is a joy, the liner notes and book alone is worth the price. If you are reading this you have interest in Louis and/or Jazz... or just plain music, don't waste more time and please buy it there's not regret here, GUARANTEED!

God bless Louis!

Let the Music Play!
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Yes
No
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Passionate and ironic 2 Jun 2001
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
These seminal recordings, document an utterly captivating, riveting music. Louis Armstrong transmitted an energy to his musicians that propelled them to play what was almost by any measure of judgement completely new jazz. The compositions were built on syncopated rhythmic innovations and presented radical melodic challenges to the dominant blues idiom. The material was treated by the Hot Fives and Sevens with layers of complex dynamics, elevated to ecstatic heights by Armstrong's dazzling execution on trumpet and the pioneering clarinet work of Johnny Dodds. Dodds' expressive range and penetrating timbre paved the way for the great clarinettists of the swing era: Sidney Bechet, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw.

Some of the themes are so abstract and ironic they sound decades ahead of their time. "Potato Head Blues", "Wild Man Blues" and "Twelfth Street Rag" are so intensely vigorous that you'll see straight away why this music took off as it did, why reactionaries thought it was the music of the devil, why conservatives thought it was subversive, why progressives didn't understand it.

Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Yes
No
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Passionate and ironic 2 Jun 2001
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
These seminal recordings, document an utterly captivating, riveting music. Louis Armstrong transmitted an energy to his musicians that propelled them to play what was almost by any measure of judgement completely new jazz. The compositions were built on syncopated rhythmic innovations and presented radical melodic challenges to the dominant blues idiom. The material was treated by the Hot Fives and Sevens with layers of complex dynamics, elevated to ecstatic heights by Armstrong's dazzling execution on trumpet and the pioneering clarinet work of Johnny Dodds. Dodds' expressive range and penetrating timbre paved the way for the great clarinettists of the swing era: Sidney Bechet, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw.

Some of the themes are so abstract and ironic they sound decades ahead of their time. "Potato Head Blues", "Wild Man Blues" and "Twelfth Street Rag" are so intensely vigorous that you'll see straight away why this music took off as it did, why reactionaries thought it was the music of the devil, why conservatives thought it was subversive, why progressives didn't understand it.

Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Yes
No
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?   Let us know
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

There's a problem loading this menu at the moment.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.

    Your Shopping Basket is empty.

    Give it purpose -- fill it with books, DVDs, clothes, electronics and more.

    If you already have an account, sign in.

    There's a problem previewing your shopping basket at the moment.

    Check your Internet connection and go to your cart, or try again.

    View Shopping Basket (0 items)

      Customer Discussions

      This product's forum
      Discussion Replies Latest Post
      No discussions yet

      Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
      Start a new discussion
      Topic:
      First post:
      Prompts for sign-in
       


      Active discussions in related forums
      Search Customer Discussions
      Search all Amazon discussions
         
      Related forums

      What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

      › Explore similar items

      Listmania!

      Create a Listmania! list

      Look for similar items by category

      Feedback