Complete Hot 5 & Hit 7 Recordings [Import]

Louis Armstrong | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 5, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2004
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Import
• Label: Definitive
• ASIN: B00005EBTU
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #411,790 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. My Heart

2. Yes! I'm in the Barrel

3. Gut Bucket Blues

4. Come Back, Sweet Papa

5. Georgia Grind

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Weary Blues

2. New Orleans Stomp

3. Wild Man Blues

4. Melancholy

5. Willie the Weeper

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Savoy Blues

2. Fireworks

3. Skip the Gutter

4. A Monday Date

5. Don't Jive Me

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Everything's Been Done Before

2. I Cover the Waterfront

3. In the Gloaming

4. Long, Long Ago

5. Hey Lawdy Mama

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "Calvados" stammers impatiently, July 19, 2006

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bukhtan (Chicago, Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Hot 5 & Hit 7 Recordings (Audio CD)

"Definitive Records" own "Calvados" (who may since have absconded to China, now home of the bigboy bootleggers) burned this set over from John RT Davies' work for JSP and Frog (in the latter case under Johnny Dodds' name), not willing to wait for "Columbia" (Sony) to get off its duff and remaster the music they own. Odd pricing, though. JSP is still cheaper, with better sound quality! I would guess that the "Teenager of Iberia" thought that the JSP set would go under in anticipation of the Columbia set. However that may have been, here we have the result. As "Calvados" himself puts it:
"The definitive edition of this monumental testimony of the birth of the real Jazz era, with comprehensive discographical data. A surprising good sound quality, never before reached.
Spectacular newly remasterization"
You'll see that "Calvados" has a loose grip on English adverbials, and also overapplies the "-ize-" verb suffix. Apparently he doesn't spend much time reading English, odd indeed for a fellow who makes his living ripping off American musicians and their dependents. This kind of sloppiness shows up not only in the "discographicalist material", as I once heard "Definitive" put it, but also in the "remasterization". So beware.