1975 The Smithsonian Collection R 002 Columbia Special Products P2 12753 double album reissue of 1928 tracks. Vinyl plays very good plus; does not skip. Gatefold jacket is whole; ringwear, ruboff; corner dent; no bar code. Includes attached 4 page liner notes.

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Album Features Artist: Louis Armstrong, Earl HinesFormat: 2LPRelease Year: 1975Record Label: Smithsonian Genre: Jazz Instrument, Trumpet

Track Listing
Side 1

1. Chicago Breakdown
2. You're A Real Sweetheart
3. Too Busy
4. Last Night I Dreamed You Kissed Me
5. Fireworks
6. Skip The Gutter
7. A Monday Date
8. Don't Jive Me

Side 2

9. West End Blues
10. Sugar Foot Strut
11. Two Deuces
12. Squeeze Me
13. Knee Drops
14. Symphonic Touches
15. Savoyagers' Stomp
16. No (Papa No)

Side 3

1. Basin Street Blues
2. No One Else But You
3. Beau Koo Jack
4. Save It Pretty Mama
5. Weather Bird (Rag)
6. Muggles
7. Caution Blues
8. A Monday Date

Side 4

9. Baby
10. Streethearts On Parade
11. I Must Have That Man
12. I Ain't Got Nobody
13. Fifty-Seven Varieties
14. Heah Me Talkin' to Ya?
15. St. James' Infirmary
16. Tight Like This

Details Distributor: CBS Special ProductsRecording Type: StudioRecording Mode: Mono

Album Notes
Personnel: Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet, cornet) (and His Hot Seven, and His Hot Five, and His Hot Four, Carroll Dickerson's Savoyagers, and His Orchestra, and His Savoy Ballroom Five); Earl Hines (vocals, piano, celeste); Don Redman (vocals, alto saxophone, clarinet); Mancy Cara (vocals, banjo); Boyd Atkins (soprano & alto saxophones, clarinet); Joe Walker (alto & baritone saxophones); Bert Curry, Crawford Wethington (alto saxophone); Jimmy Strong (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Albert Washington (tenor saxophone); Homer Hobson (trumpet); Bill Wilson (cornet); Honore Dutrey, Fred Robinson (trombone); Pete Briggs (tuba); Carroll Dickerson (violin); Rip Bassett (guitar); Tubby Hall, Zutty Singleton (drums); Lillie Delk Christian, others.Recorded between May 9, 1927 and December 12, 1928. Includes liner notes by J. R. Taylor.

Louis Amstrong's 1927-1928 collaboration with pianist Earl Hines represents a milestone in the trumpeter's musical development as well as a new standard for jazz improvisation on all fronts. The earlier Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings certainly produced their masterpieces, like "Struttin With Some Barbecue" and "Potato Head Blues," but these triumphs were still beholden to the earlier contrapuntal New Orleans style.By contrast, seminal Amstrong-Hines tracks like "West End Blues" and "Basin Street Blues" clear the clutter of the earlier music, with Hines' elegant stride piano providing a comfortable yet firm bed for Amstrong's take-offs into musical space. Above all, what one hears in these revolutionary recordings is a new, modern style, confidently attaining peak after peak of pure musical excellence.