JSP Records: JSPLOUISBOX 100 (JSPCD 312--JSPCD 315; CD 312 (additional no. on container spine for v. 1)

Jazz

Compact discs

Program notes by Charles Fox (v. 1-2) and Sally-Ann Worsfold (v. 3-4) inserted in containers

Louis Armstrong, cornet, trumpet, and vocals ; with his Hot Five or Hot Seven

Recorded 1925-1928, in Chicago, and 1929-1930, in New York

Volume 1.

My heart (2:28) -- Yes! I'm in the barrel (2:41) -- Gut bucket blues (2:45) -- Come back, sweet papa (2:32) -- Georgia grind (2:37) -- Heebie jeebies (2:57) -- Comet chop suey (3:19) -- Oriental strut (3:03) -- You're next (3:18) -- Muskrat rumble (2:35) -- Don't forget to mess around (3:05) -- I'm gonna gitcha (2:46) -- Dropping shucks (2:55) -- Who' sit (2:47) -- He likes it slow (2:44) -- King of the Zulus (3:07) -- Big fat Ma and skinny Pa (3:02) -- Lonesome blues (3:05) -- Sweet little papa (2:47) -- Jazz lips (3:03) -- Skid-dat-de-dat (3:08) -- Big butter and egg man from the West (3:01) -- Sunset Cafe stomp (2:48) -- You made me love you (2:48) -- Irish black bottom (2:37)

Volume 2.

Willie the weeper (3:10) -- Wild man blues (3:14) -- Chicago breakdown (3:22) -- Alligator crawl (3:05) -- Potato head blues (2:58) -- Melancholy blues (3:05) -- Weary blues (3:02) -- Twelfth Street rag (3:07) -- Keyhole blues (3:30) -- S.O.L. blues (2:56) -- Gully low blues (3:19) -- That's when I'll come back to you (2:59) -- Put 'em down blues (3:17) -- Ory's Creole trombone (3:08) -- Last time (3:33) -- Struttin' with some barbecue (3:07) -- Got no blues (3:27) -- Once in a while (3:20) -- I'm not rough (3:05) -- Hotter than that (3:05) -- Savoy blues (3:29)

Volume 3.

Fireworks (3:09) -- Skip the gutter (3:11) -- A Monday date (3:15) -- Don't jive me (2:50) -- West End blues (3:21) -- Sugar foot strut (3:24) -- Two deuces (2:59) -- Squeeze me (3:27) -- Knee drops (3:28) -- Symphonic raps (3:16) -- Savoyers' stomp (3:14) -- No (no, Papa, no) (2:55) -- Basin Street blues (3:16) -- No-one else but you (3:25) -- Beau Koo Jack (3:01) -- Save it, pretty mama (3:20) -- Weather bird (2:42) -- Muggles (2:53) -- Heah me talkin' to ya? (3:18) -- St. James Infirmary (3:14) -- Tight like this (tight like that) (3:12) -- Knockin' a jug (3:15)

Volume 4.

I can't give you anything but love (3:26) -- Mahogany Hall stomp (3:18) -- Ain't misbehavin' (3:16) -- (What did I do to be so) Black and blue? (3:04) -- That rhythm man (3:05) -- Sweet Savannah Sue (3:09) -- Some of these days (2:55) -- Some of these days (3:08) -- When you're smiling (2:54) -- When you're smiling (3:26) -- After you've gone (3:18) -- I ain't got nobody (2:41) -- Dallas blues (3:11) -- St. Louis blues (2:59) -- Rockin' chair (3:18) -- Song of the islands (3:33) -- Bessie couldn't help it (3:25) -- Blue, turning grey over you (3:32) -- Dear old Southland (3:21) -- Rockin' chair (3:16) -- I can't give you anything but love (3:28)