Hot Five
The Hot Five was Louis Armstrong's first jazz recording band led under his own name. It was a typical New Orleans jazz band in instrumentation, consisting of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone backed by a rhythm section. The original New Orleans jazz style leaned heavily on collective improvisation, in which the three horns together played the lead: the trumpet played the main melody, and the clarinet and trombone played improvised accompaniments to the melody. This tradition was continued in the Hot Five, but because of Armstrong's creative gifts as a trumpet player, solo passages by the trumpet alone began to appear more frequently. In these solos, Armstrong laid down the basic vocabulary of jazz improvisation and became its founding and most influential exponent. The Hot Five was organized at the suggestion of Richard M. Jones for Okeh Records. All their records were made in Okeh's recording studio in Chicago, Illinois. The same personnel recorded a session made under the pseudonym "Lil's Hot Shots" for Vocalion/Brunswick (their first electrically recorded session). While the musicians in the Hot Five played together in other contexts, as the Hot Five they were a recording studio band that performed live only for two parties organized by Okeh. There were two different groups called "Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five", the first recording from 1925 through 1927 and the second in 1928; Armstrong was the only musician in both groups. |
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Birth and Death Data: Born November 12th, 1925, Died December 4th, 1928
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1925 - 1929
Roles Represented in DAHR: Musical group
Notes: Listing for Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five.
Recordings (Results 1-25 of 47 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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OKeh | 9484 | 10-in. | 11/12/1925 | My heart | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9485 | 10-in. | 11/12/1925 | Yes! I'm in the barrel | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9486 | 10-in. | 11/12/1925 | Gut bucket blues | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9501 | Not documented | 2/22/1926 | [Unknown title(s)] | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9502 | Not documented | 2/22/1926 | [Unknown title(s)] | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9503 | 10-in. | 2/22/1926 | Come back, sweet papa | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9533 | 10-in. | 2/26/1926 | Georgia grind | Lillian Armstrong ; Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble, with female-male vocal duet | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9534 | 10-in. | 2/26/1926 | Heebie jeebies | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble, with male vocal solo | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9535 | 10-in. | 2/26/1926 | Cornet chop suey | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9536 | 10-in. | 2/26/1926 | Oriental strut | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9537 | 10-in. | 2/26/1926 | You're next | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9538 | 10-in. | 2/26/1926 | Muskrat ramble | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9729 | 10-in. | 6/16/1926 | Don't forget to mess around | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble, with male vocal solo | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9730 | 10-in. | 6/16/1926 | I'm gonna gitcha | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble, with male vocal solo | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9731 | 10-in. | 6/16/1926 | Dropping shucks | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble, with male vocal solo | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9732 | 10-in. | 6/16/1926 | Who'sit | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9750 | 10-in. | 6/18/1926 | He likes it slow | Louis Armstrong ; Butterbeans & Susie ; Hot Five | Female-male vocal duet, with jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9776 | 10-in. | 6/23/1926 | The king of the Zulus (At a chit'lin' rag) | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble, with dialogue | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9777 | 10-in. | 6/23/1926 | Big fat Ma and skinny Pa | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble, with male vocal solo and talking | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9778 | 10-in. | 6/23/1926 | Lonesome blues | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble, with male vocal solo | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9779 | 10-in. | 6/23/1926 | Sweet little papa | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9890 | 10-in. | 11/16/1926 | Jazz lips | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9891 | 10-in. | 11/16/1926 | Skid-dat-de-dat | Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble, with male vocal solo | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9892 | 10-in. | 11/16/1926 | Big butter and egg man from the West | May Alix ; Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble, with female-male vocal duet | Musical group | |
OKeh | 9893 | 10-in. | 11/16/1926 | Sunset Cafe stomp | May Alix ; Louis Armstrong ; Hot Five | Jazz/dance ensemble, with female vocal solo | Musical group |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Hot Five," accessed January 20, 2021, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105972.
Hot Five. (2021). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved January 20, 2021, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105972.
"Hot Five." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2021. Web. 20 January 2021.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
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LCNAR: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88613399
Wikidata: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q487027
VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/121301244/
MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cfedde14-91c5-46cb-b087-9f2da9bec194
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