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Louis Armstrong

Hot Fives

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Label:	Jazzterdays Records
Rating:	5.0

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Description: It's no exaggeration to say that Louis Armstrong recreated jazz in his own image, taking a collectively improvised music and remaking it into one in which the virtuoso soloist dominated. He did it by sheer invention and musical superiority, and he did it in the midst of the finest polyphonic players that New Orleans music had produced. The beginnings of it can be heard in these 1925-26 recordings by the superb Hot Five, a band made up of clarinetist Johnny Dodds, trombonist Kid Ory, pianist Lil Hardin Armstrong, and banjoist Johnny St. Cyr. Armstrong was with the players he knew best, and the music is relaxed and lustrous, ranging from the beautiful cornet feature "Cornet Chop Suey" to the convivial "Gut Bucket Blues" and the first recording of Ory's "Muskrat Ramble." The summit of the New Orleans style and the dawn of the next phase in jazz, this is an essential CD for any jazz listener, not just for traditionalists. --Stuart Broomer

Tracklist of Hot Fives

Disc 1
1	My Heart	2:32
2	I'm in the Barrel
3	Gut Bucket Blues	2:50
4	Come Back Sweet Papa	2:35
5	Georgia Grind	2:41
6	Heebie Jeebies	2:57
7	Cornet Chop Suey	3:08
8	Oriental Strut	3:11
9	You're Next	3:26
10	Muskrat Ramble	2:35
11	Don't Forget to Mess Around	3:17
12	I'm Gonna Gitcha	2:57
13	Droppin' Shucks	3:07
14	Who's It	2:46
15	King of the Zulus	4:40
16	Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa	3:06
17	Lonesome Blues	3:04
18	Sweet Little Papa	2:44
19	Jazz Lips	3:01
20	Skid-Dat-De-Dat	3:05
21	Big Butter and Egg Man	2:59
22	Sunset Cafe Stomp	2:44
23	You Made Me Love You	2:54
24	Irish Black Bottom	2:38

Reviews:

This is breakthrough jazz.

When I first listened to this album, I thought it was all instrumental, then I came to song 6 and 7. I forget what the titles are, but both of them include Louis Armstrong's young voice that sounds ancient. The sound quality of the music is not good, but considering that it is over 70 years old it is superb. The thing I emphasize is the singing, Louis Armstrong's crazy voice just takes me away, man. No doubt. The music is terrific and it has remained in my CD player for about two weeks, and it seems like I'll never take it out. I love the music, and the music proves that Louis was strongest before he recorded Blueberry Hill. Any jazz fan needs this recording in order to understand what has transpired in the evolution of jazz. Albums like this make me want to listen to music. They've even got a banjo!!!!!

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This is breakthrough jazz.