Hot Fives & Sevens Volume 2

by Louis Armstrong

Hot Fives & Sevens Volume 2 cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1998-01-01
  • Label: JSP
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 4.12/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The second volume of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings from the late 1920s. Sessions including 'West End Blues' mark the point where jazz became a soloist's art.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, virtuosic, improvisation, saxophone, piano

Tracklist

  1. Willie The Weeper
  2. Wild Man Blues
  3. Chicago Breakdown
  4. Alligator Crawl
  5. Potato Head Blues
  6. Melancholy Blues
  7. Weary Blues
  8. Twelfth Street Rag
  9. Keyhole Blues
  10. S.O.L. Blues
  11. Gully Low Blues
  12. That's When I'll Come Back To You
  13. Put 'Em Down Blues
  14. Ory's Creole Trombone
  15. The Last Time
  16. Struttin' With Some Barbecue
  17. Got No Blues
  18. Once In A While
  19. I'm Not Rough
  20. Hotter Than That
  21. Savoy Blues

Credits

  • Louis Armstrong - primary artist, cornet, vocals
  • Joe Walker - alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
  • Johnny St. Cyr - banjo, guitar
  • Rip Basset - banjo, guitar
  • Pete Briggs - brass bass
  • Boyd Atkins - clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone
  • Lil Hardin-Armstrong - piano, vocals

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