Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens Wynton Marsalis

• 1 Potato Head Blues 04:48
• 2 Twelfth Street Rag 04:01
• 3 Skid-Dat-De-Dat 05:48
• 4 Jazz Lips 04:00
• 5 St. James Infirmary 06:30
• 6 Weary Blues 03:56
• 7 Melancholy Blues 04:07
• 8 Heebie Jeebies 05:52
• 9 Once In A While 06:11
• 10 Ory's Creole Trombone 04:05
• 11 Basin Street Blues 07:58
• 12 Savoy Blues 06:33
• 13 Cornet Chop Suey 03:59
• 14 Fireworks 05:46
• Total Runtime 01:13:34

Info for Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens

Wynton Marsalis with Vince Giordano pay tribute to the enduring legacy of Louis Armstrong’s “Hot Five and Hot Seven”

Louis Armstrong achieved fame as a trumpeter, but is also known as one of the most influential singers in jazz. His musical presence, technical mastery and imaginative genius so overwhelmed jazz musicians of his day that he became their principal model, leaving an indelible imprint on the Cadillac is the Lead New York Sponsor of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly acknowledges its 2006-07 sponsors: Altria Group, Inc., Bank of America, Bloomberg, The Coca Cola Company, Time Warner Inc., XM Satellite Radio. Brooks Brothers is the official clothier of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. BET J is proud to partner with Jazz at Lincoln Center to present the television series Journey with Jazz at Lincoln Center. For more information, visit www.jalc.org imprint on the music. The greatest trumpet playing of Louis Armstrong’s early years can be heard on his Hot Five and Hot Seven records, which were originally done between 1925-1928. The improvisations, which he made on these records of New Orleans jazz standards and popular songs of the day, transformed jazz. Hits from these recordings which include “Potato Head Blues,” “Muggles” and “West End Blues” set the standard and the agenda for jazz for many years to come.

Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
Wycliffe Gordon, trombone
Vincent Gardner, saxophone, clarinet
Victor Goines, saxophone, clarinet
Walter Blanding, piano
Don Vappie, piano
Jon Batiste, piano
Carlos Henriquez, drums
Ali Jackson, drums

Wynton Marsalis
is the managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and a world-renowned trumpeter and composer. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12, entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and then joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than 60 jazz and classical recordings, which have won him nine GRAMMY Awards. In 1983 he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz GRAMMYs in the same year and repeated this feat in 1984.

Marsalis is also an internationally respected teacher and spokesman for music education, and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of U.S. universities and colleges. He has written six books; his most recent are Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!, illustrated by Paul Rogers and published by Candlewick Press in 2012, and Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life with Geoffrey C. Ward, published by Random House in 2008. In 1997 Marsalis became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center.

In 2001 he was appointed Messenger of Peace by Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and he has also been designated cultural ambassador to the United States of America by the U.S. State Department through their CultureConnect program. Marsalis was instrumental in the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief concert, produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. The event raised more than $3 million for the Higher Ground Relief Fund to benefit the musicians, music industry-related enterprises, and other individuals and entities from the areas in Greater New Orleans who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina.

Marsalis helped lead the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s home - Frederick P. Rose Hall - the first education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened in October 2004.

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