While not as comprehensive as the four CD box set, “The Best of the Hot 5 and Hot 7 Recordings” cover the remarkable period of music created by Louis Armstrong between 1926 and 1928. Armstrong had ...

This 10-CD set ... of Louis Armstrong as anyone could wish for. It’s all here: the early years with the King Oliver and Fletcher Henderson bands, the glorious period of the Hot Fives and Sevens ...