The Best of The Hot 5 & Hot 7 Recordings

I like my dixieland jazz a bit hotter than this (e.g. the Dutch College Swing Band). These tracks very quickly all blurred into one. A nice enough sound, but nothing grabbed my attention.

Solid stuff although I felt like a psycho listening to this in the car on the way to work

It's charming. Simple and dated, but full of warmth.

I generally prefer later jazz, but it was good.

Some very old music here… interesting in a historical way, and obviously influential and impressive musicianship. Just not really that enjoyable to my ear to be honest. Still, I can see why something like this belongs on the list.

It's fine. Old timey trumpet music doesn't do much for me... certainly tends to sound all the same, but i can acknowledge its importance.

If you want old time jazz then this is what you want. 1920s swing jazz with Louis is clearly a historical fest and very important but to me the old time jazz is a bit bland and missing some of the spontaneity of later jazz that I prefer much more. This isn’t bad and it sure it has had major cultural impacts but it’s nothing id willingly revisit if I wanted to hear jazz. 6.4/10

Jazz trompetero. Ni fu ni fa.

enjoyed more than I thought I would, wouldn't relisten

Vibes

Interesting specialist listening material, but hardly a top album in an open list.

It's fine. Really an odd one compared to all the other great albums. Seems more like a chore to listen to than to enjoy. I do love the old music of this era...but this is a LOT to take in in one sitting. 3 of 5, lets move on....

Very Laurel and Hardy-esque. I get the cultural significance but it's a bit wearing and repetitive to listen to. I prefer Laurel and Hardy

I only listened to the first disc of this. It was enjoyable enough, but I didn't need three more of them.

78rpm music.. It's worth a listen for the history.

we get it, you can blow on that trumpet

I genuinely thought I was about to be listening to a nearly five hour album, but I noticed the words "the best of" thank God. Louis Armstrong is iconic in the music scene, so I understand wanting to give him some credit, but does this really count? Not only is it a compilation, but really a compilation of a compilation. It isn't an album to listen to, per se, rather just "hey, this artist deserves credit so he should be on the list!" Kinda ignores the "album" part of the list, but oh well. Won't instantly give it a one, though, that's a dumb thing to do, too. Just setting up my prior views before I say that this isn't really all that much to write home about. Was it a century ago? Probably, but now I hear this and just think "Portillo's." It's Dixieland jazz, nothing more, nothing less. Is it an important milestone in modern music? Of course! Is it a very good album? No, not really.

Don’t really care for this old timey jazz. It might be good but I don’t like it that much.

Yeah yeah, it's basically the most important piece of music ever to exist, but I'm not going to pretend like I get that much enjoyment from listening to an entire hour long compilation of extremely low quality trumpet recordings from a century ago.

I didn't find that this really did it for me

4 hours of scratchy jazz recordings. I guess you like Louis voice or you don't. This was a struggle to get through for me.

too long to be foisted in people .. fuck you

This was a hard listen because, well, Jazz. But what really put me off was an album that played after - how did anyone ever think that was music worth listening to??

Sure some people like it but not me

Compilation album = 1 star But I agree that Louis Armstrong should have been in the 1001 album list

This is a compilation, not really an album. I am not saying it is bad, not at all, but I guess it doesn’t apply for this exercise