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Released October 10, 1924 - May 29, 1925

This rather unusual CD has 24 selections but most of them are shorter excerpts. The focus is on the brilliant solos that Louis Armstrong took while a member of the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. Since his cornet flights were years ahead of some of the wheezing arrangements and the attempts by the other sidemen, the producers simply cut out the more dated segments and sometimes spliced in several of his solos from different takes of the same song. Where the producers erred was in not including every Armstrong solo with Henderson and, most importantly, programming the CD in complete chronological order so one could more easily trace the month-by-month growth of this innovative jazzman. Still, this is a historical curiosity and the music is consistently exciting. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

TRACKS

1. Money Blues
2. Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me?
3. I'll See You in My Dreams
4. Tell Me, Dreamy Eyes
5. My Rose Marie
6. Poplar Street Blues
7. Shanghai Shuffle
8. Mandy, Make up Your Mind
9. Go 'Long Mule
10. Memphis Bound
11. How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
12. Alabamy Bound
13. Copenhagen
14. The Meanest Kind of Blues
15. I Miss My Swiss
16. Alone at Last
17. Shanghai Shuffle
18. When You Do What You Do
19. Words
20. Carolina Stomp
21. Bye and Bye
22. Naughty Man
23. Play Me Slow
24. T.N.T.
25. One of These Days
26. Oliver

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