Military Music And Banjo Solos
People entering a music store to purchase a Columbia record in 1900 would leave not with a flat disc, but a cylinder. Its content would consist of a military band instrumental (probably conducted by...
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  After a brief sojourn with Fletcher Henderson's band in the mid-1920s, Louis Armstrong returned to Chicago and didn't play in New York again until 1929, when he came East with Carroll Dickerson's group. That June, the all-black revue Hot Chocolates opened and, by the fall, Armstrong was appearing in it as a special cast member and then performing with Dickerson at the Savoy Ballroom after the curtain. Louis' playing and singing here electrifies the listener with its daring unconventional ideas--including the quotation from "Rhapsody In Blue" during his solo.

From Hot Chocolates; (A. Razaf/T. Waller/H. Brooks); Produced by Justin Ring & Bob Stephens; Louis Armstrong, trumpet, vocal; Homer Hobson, trumpet; Fred Robinson, trombone; Bert Curry, Crawford Wethington, alto saxophones; Jimmy Strong, clarinet, tenor saxophone; Carroll Dickerson, violin, leader; Gene Anderson, piano; Mancy Carr, banjo; Pete Briggs, tuba; Zutty Singleton, drums; Rec. New York, July 19, 1929. OKeh 78 RPM 41276 (mx W.402534-B); Originally Released 1929