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Best of the Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings
Louis Armstrong
Best of the Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
 
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2008 four CD set. The Original Masters series presents some of the finest recordings by many of the true Jazz legends originally signed to the RCA and Sony labels. With hits, favorites, album tracks, rarities and more, th...  more »

     
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All Artists: Louis Armstrong
Title: Best of the Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sony
Original Release Date: 1/1/2002
Re-Release Date: 12/2/2002
Album Type: Import
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: New Orleans Jazz, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Dixieland, Vocal Pop, Classic Vocalists, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

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2008 four CD set. The Original Masters series presents some of the finest recordings by many of the true Jazz legends originally signed to the RCA and Sony labels. With hits, favorites, album tracks, rarities and more, these collections are solid samplers for the aficionados and astounding introductions to those interested in investigating the roots of Jazz. This collection from the famed trumpet virtuoso and his Hot Five and Hot Seven outfits features 80 tracks including ' Struttin' With Some Barbecue', 'Got No Blues', 'Gut Bucket Blues', 'Fireworks' and many others. Sony/BMG.

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Nikica Gilic | Zagreb, Croatia | 11/30/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I'm giving this budget-priced CD-box 5 stars because it contains some of the most important recordings in the entire history of jazz:

Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens; the foundation on which Armstrong's reputation stands - at least if you ask jazz fans... Satchmo, Johnny Dodds, Earl Hines, Zutty Singleton and company (including the magnificent guest Lonnie Johnson on guitar) create some wonderful stuff and additional tracks by same artists in different settings is thrown in to make the cake richer (although some gigs - accompanying inferior singer f.i. - are not very uplifting).



However, although I have listened to this music in various forms for years (first on audio-tapes bought in Canada by my friend's father who sailed big cargo-ships), I must warn buyers who are NOT big jazz fans:



the bulk of this recordings is from the 20s, so don't expect any high fidelity there! There's also some hiss that is toned down in another attempt to transfer this treasure to CD (The Hot Fives & Sevens)... That CD-box's page also has interesting discussions about different ways to transfer such old material.



Also, I'd like to warn jazz fans that this inexpensive box DOES NOT contain the precise listing of players and dates for each track - not a small fault by the distingue jazz-buff standards...

However, I already have that another (a bit more expensive) box of basically the same tracks, so I bought this one mostly to compare the remastering with this Columbia version...

The verdict? As someone has already said it - the remastering is DIFFERENT, but good in both cases.



At least on my inexpensive Hi-Fi equipment..."