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| 1. My Heart | |||
| 2. Yes! I'm In The The Barrel | |||
| 3. Gut Bucket Blues | |||
| 4. Come Back, Sweet Papa | |||
| 5. Georgia Grind | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Willie The Weeper | |||
| 2. Wild Man Blues | |||
| 3. Chicago Breakdown | |||
| 4. Alligator Crawl | |||
| 5. Potato Head Blues | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Fireworks | |||
| 2. Skip The Gutter | |||
| 3. A Monday Date | |||
| 4. Don't Jive Me | |||
| 5. West End Blues | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Louis Armstrong And His Savoy Ballroom Five | |||
| 2. Mahogany Hall Stomp - Louis Armstrong And His Savoy Ballroom Five | |||
| 3. Ain't Misbehavin' - Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra | |||
| 4. (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue? - Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra | |||
| 5. That Rhythm Man - Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra | |||
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Fact: Some 70-plus 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 super sessions 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
CD Description
The ultimate recordings of one of the greatest legends in jazz history, available as a 4CD box set and at a budget price. This set has received the highest accolades from The Penguin Guide To Jazz and The Gramophone Jazz Guide. All four CDs have been remastered to the best possible sound quality by the amazing John R.T. Davies.
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58 of 58 people found the following review helpful
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What can I say which the reviewer above hasn't said already! This is a momentous package which charts Satchmo's awesome artistic development over 4 excellent CDs with the Hot Fives, Sevens, and the other featured ensembles. Armstrong and the ensemble players Dodds, Hines playing is exceptional, immensely rewarding and uplifiting. True Jazz classics such the inimitable 'West End Blues' can now be clearly heard in all their glory. The remastering as already pointed out is excellent and revealing as are the liner notes.
Considering the crass rhetoric and posturing of much of modern music and its personalities this is a refreshing and much needed window into bygone age of fantastic artistry which heralded the burgeoning maturity of Jazz.
A rich, most thoroughly recommended, and memorable Package at a brilliant price.
Very Highly Recommended !
43 of 43 people found the following review helpful
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I'm amazed that no-one has got here before me! This record gets a much-coveted crown in the Penguin Guide to Jazz and deservedly so. These four records contain some of the most precious music in jazz. Louis' playing throughout is superlative, though he amazingly manages to go from brilliant to stratospheric in the course of the four records. Dodds (on clarinet) also makes a strong showing on the earlier discs, with Earl Hines (piano) adding to the later ones. Shimering solos all around are the norm. In the end, it's useless to pick single tracks, the whole makes as strong a statement as the sum of its parts.
Not only is the music brilliant, but so too is J. R. T. Davies' remastering. The nstruments sound bright and vivid: to think that these recordings are over 75 years old!! They still burst from the speakers. If you like Louis Armstrong, get this 4-CD set, it's a bargain and is surely one of the best investments you can make. He lacked some of the youthful energy found here when he became a big crossover success in the 40s and 50s. These will provide you with endless fun!
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Elvis Presley did not invent rock and roll – many artists were heading toward the same fusion of blues and country – but he was the first to refine and define it as a musical form, the first to create a coherent body of work, the first to sell it to a mass audience and so, by the default, the first to become a major star of the genre.
Louis Armstrong arguably holds the same position in jazz. In 1924 he was a sideman in King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, playing what was still seen as an underground, “minority” music. By 1930 he had become jazz’s leading artist while jazz itself had crossed over to white audiences to such an extent that, until the advent of rock and roll, it would be the dominant stylistic influence on popular music.
Both achievements are directly attributable to the records Armstrong cut between 1925 and 1929, his first solo recordings, widely known as “the hot fives and hot sevens” after the bands he fronted on them. They are to jazz what Elvis’s early Sun sessions and RCA Victor recordings are to rock and roll music: the core of genre, its central canon, its template. And these discs contain those recordings in their entirety, in the finest available mastering to date. Buy them. Quite simply, they ARE jazz.
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THE GREATEST JAZZ RECORDINGS EVER MADE
I have been listening to these sides for over 60 years. In my view they are, quite simply, the greatest jazz recordings ever made.
Published 3 months ago by Hugh Magee
Louis Armstrong Hot 5s & 7s, JSP boxed set
89 tracks all expertly re-mastered by John R.T. Davies to his usual superb standard. As a collector of this type of music, I already had copies of 80% of these but the quality... Read more
Published 19 months ago by mouldy
Mind-blowing
When writing about jazz, the poet Philip Larkin described Louis Armstrong as "the Chaucer and Shakespeare of jazz". Read more
Published 20 months ago by The Judge
Definitive version of these classic recordings
Having only known these recordings from quite poorly mastered CD's I was astounded when I played the first disc from this set. Read more
Published 22 months ago by GordonH
Louis Armstrong, Complete Hot Fives and Sevens - superlative release...
4 CDs. 89 tracks. Probably one of the most important documents in modern music. Collected here are the complete recordings of Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens, the two... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Victor
Who needs church when you have Potato Head Blues...
4 discs of heaven with many peaks as Louis stretches his playing further & further. The very best tracks on these music-changing sessions make you feel like you've just been born. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2010 by Tyrone
Louis Armstrong
Though I have not studied the different recordings of this music, and therefore cannot comment on the relative merits of this set, there is no doubt that here the musical values of... Read more
Published on 20 Jan 2010 by S. Nelson
Hot stuff
Newcomer to jazz, for the price and sheer volume of music this is excellent value. Really interesting to hear the development from the King Oliver style with everyone playing at... Read more
Published on 30 Oct 2009 by Argonaut
Just two things you should already know
Hot Fives and Sevens
1. These four CDs contain what are without question the finest recordings in all jazz
2. Read more
1. These four CDs contain what are without question the finest recordings in all jazz
2. Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2008 by martin jones
Is this the best edition of hot fives and hot sevens available?
Frankly, I don't know.
I still have two "hot five" and "hot seven" audio tapes (Vol II i Vol III) bought in the late 1980s (edition "CBS masterpieces") and they also sound... Read more
I still have two "hot five" and "hot seven" audio tapes (Vol II i Vol III) bought in the late 1980s (edition "CBS masterpieces") and they also sound... Read more
Published on 29 May 2008 by Nikica Gilic
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