Hot Fives and Sevens (4-CD)

Entertainment Weekly: Ranked #1 in EW's Top 3 Jazz Albums of 2000 - "...Utterly indispensable..."

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CD Details

Number of Discs: 4
Released: October 4, 1999
Originally Released: 1999
Label: JSP Records

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 9/14/00, p.174

5 stars out of 5 - "...Documents the crucial early steps of Armstrong's journey....[with] his knack for generating soaring melodies, his ability to make his enthusiasm for everything he played feel contagious...and the order in which he got things done..."

Entertainment Weekly - 12/29/00, p.140

Ranked #1 in EW's Top 3 Jazz Albums of 2000 - "...Utterly indispensable..."

CMJ - 8/28/00, p.24

"...Spectacular....the music has been remastered [and] adjusted so that the material plays at the same pitch it was originally recorded....A quality package of some of jazz's most important recordings."

JazzTimes - 10/00, pp.77-8

"...The Rosetta Stone of jazz....We witness Armstrong transforming jazz from attractive folk music performed by collectives into art music energized by the creative power of one man's intuitive ability to make it swing..."

Vibe - 10/00, p.176

3.5 records of 5 - "...Reveals why Armstrong was jazz's first superstar. The versatile arrangements, brilliant songwriting, exquisite hornplay, and passionate vocal delivery on this set laid the foundation for modern music..."

Mojo (Publisher) - 11/00, p.106

"...He redefined what was possible in improvised jazz melody and jazz singing. These sides are to jazz what Chaucer is to literature..."

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.My Heart
2.Yes! I'm in the Barrel
3.Gut Bucket Blues
4.Come Back, Sweet Papa
5.Georgia Grind
6.Heebie Jeebies
7.Cornet Shop Suey
8.Oriental Strut
9.You're Next
10.Muskrat Ramble
11.Don't Forget to Mess Around
12.I'm Gonna Gitcha
13.Dropping Shucks
14.Who' Sit
15.He Likes It Slow
16.The King of the Zulus
17.Big Fat Ma and Skinny Pa
18.Lonesome Blues
19.Sweet Little Papa
20.Jazz Lips
21.Skid-Dat-de-Dat
22.Big Butter and Egg Man From the West
23.Sunset Cafe Stomp
24.You Made Me Love You
25.Irish Black Bottom

Tracks on Disc 2:

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

Tracks on Disc 3:

1.Fireworks
2.Skip the Gutter
3.A Monday Date
4.Don't Jive Me
5.West End Blues
6.Sugar Foot Strut
7.Two Deuces
8.Squeeze Me
9.Knee Drops
10.Symphonic Raps
11.Savoyagers' Stomp
12.No (No Papa No)
13.Basin Street Blues
14.No-One Else But You
15.Beau Koo Jack
16.Save It, Pretty Mama
17.Weather Bird
18.Muggles
19.Heah Me Talkin' to Ya?
20.St. James Infirmary
21.Tight Like This
22.Knockin' a Jug

Tracks on Disc 4:

1.I Can't Give You Anything But Love
2.Mahogany Hall Stomp
3.Ain't Misbehavin'
4.Black and Blue?, (What Did I Do to Be So)
5.That Rhythm Man
6.Sweet Savannah Sue
7.Some of These Days
8.Some of These Days
9.When You're Smiling
10.When You're Smiling
11.After You've Gone
12.Ain't Got Nobody
13.Dallas Blues
14.St. Louis Blues
15.Rockin' Chair
16.Song of the Islands
17.Bessie Couldn't Help It
18.Blue, Turning Grey Over You
19.Dear Old Southland
20.Rockin' Chair
21.I Can't Give You Anything But Love