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Personnel includes: Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet); Jimmie Rodgers (vocals, guitar); Jack Teagarden (vocals, trombone); Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone); Don Byas (tenor saxophone); Charlie Shavers (trumpet); Bobby Hackett (cornet); Vic Dickenson (trombone); Jimmy Hamilton, Barney Bigard, Peanuts Hucko (clarinet); Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Teddy Wilson, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Charlie Beal, Dick Cary, Johnny Guarnieri (piano); Remo Palmieri, Allan Reuss, Al Casey (guitar); Chubby Jackson, Red Callender, Arvell Shaw, Bob Haggart, Al Hall (bass); Zutty Singleton, Sonny Greer, Sid Catlett, Cozy Cole (drums); Chick Webb Orchestra. Recorded between 1930 and 1947. Includes liner notes by Dan Morgenstern. Digitally remastered by Dennis Ferrante. Adapter: Dan Morgenstern. Personnel: Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet); Jack Teagarden (vocals, trombone); Elmer Warner, John Trueheart, Allan Reuss, Remo Palmieri, Bud Scott (guitar); Edgar Sampson (violin, alto saxophone); Ernie Caceres (clarinet, baritone saxophone); Jimmy Hamilton, Peanuts Hucko, Barney Bigard (clarinet); Don Hill, Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone); John Sparrow, Don Byas, Elmer "Skippy" Williams, Joe Garland (tenor saxophone); Earnest Thompson (baritone saxophone); Billy Hicks, Fats Ford, Ed Mullens, Ludwig Jordan, Louis Bacon, Louis Hunt, William Scott , Charlie Shavers (trumpet); Bobby Hackett (cornet); Albert Cobbs Jr., Big Chief Russell Moore, Adam Martin, Kid Ory, Vic Dickenson, Charlie Green (trombone); Elmer James, Bill Oldham (tuba); Edwin Swanston, Dick Cary, Don Kirkpatrick, Duke Ellington, Johnny Guarnieri, Lil Armstrong, Billy Strayhorn, Charlie Beal (piano); Chick Webb, Butch Ballard, Cozy Cole, Minor Hall, Harry Dial, Big Sid Catlett, Sonny Greer, Zutty Singleton (drums). Recording information: Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Town Hall, New York, NY. Arranger: Carley Russell. This Louis Armstrong sampler boils the four-disc Complete RCA Victor Recordings down to 16 key tracks, making it in many ways the better purchase for all but the most ardent jazz collector. Armstrong recorded intermittently for RCA between 1930 and 1947, often in sessions that were thrown together rather quickly, and there is a slight but tangible drop in joy and energy from the legendary Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of the mid- to late '20s, but this is still Louis Armstrong in his prime, and saying that these are lesser recordings would be a case of splitting hairs. The fact remains that you can only be the first one in the water once, and Armstrong's recorded output will always be measured to some degree by the Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions, which doesn't by any means make these RCA sides dismissible. At the very least, this single-disc summation of the larger RCA set makes for a neat addendum to the classic Hot Fives and Hot Sevens. ~ Steve Leggett