Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven were the companion sessions of the Hot Five sides. The personnel is the same as the first Hot Five records except that John Thomas of Erskine Tate‘s Vendome Orchestra takes over Kid Ory’s place on trombone, Pete Briggs of the Carroll Dickenson Orchestra plays Tuba, and Baby Dodds plays drums.

It is interesting to note that the addition of the tuba and drums to these sessions is probably less of an artistic decision than a technological one. In 1928 Okeh switched from an acoustic means of recording music to the new improved sounding electrical based systems. The acoustic recording process was often ruined by the vibration created by drums or bass, and recording engineers preferred not to have these instruments in a session or placed them so far from the recording horn, that they can rarely be heard well on the old acoustic recordings.

Title	Recording Date	Recording Location	Company
Alligator Crawl (Fats Waller)	5-7-1927	Chicago, Illinois	Okeh 8482
Don’t Jive Me (Lil Hardin)	7-28-1928	Chicago, Illinois	Okeh 8597
Gully Low Blues (Louis Armstrong)	5-14-1927	Chicago, Illinois	Okeh 8474
Keyhole Blues (N. Wilson)	5-13-1927	Chicago, Illinois	Okeh 8496
Melancholy Blues (M. Bloom / Walter Melrose)	5-11-1927	Chicago, Illinois	Okeh 8496
Potato Head Blues (Louis Armstrong)	5-10-1927	Chicago, Illinois	Okeh 8503
S.O.L. Blues (Louis Armstrong)	5-13-1927	Chicago, Illinois	Okeh 8496
That’s When I’ll Come Back To You (F. Biggs)	5-13-1927	Chicago, Illinois	Okeh 8519
The Last Time (Ewing / Martin)	9-6-1927	Chicago, Illinois	Columbia 35838
Weary Blues (Artie Matthews)	5-11-1927	Chicago, Illinois	Okeh 8519
Wild Man Blues (Louis Armstrong / Jelly Roll Morton)	5-7-1927	Chicago, Illinois	Okeh 8474
Willie The Weeper (Walter Melrose / M. Bloom)	5-7-1927	Chicago, Illinois	Okeh 8482

Artist	Instrument
Lil Hardin-Armstrong	Piano
Louis Armstrong	Cornet, Vocals
Pete Briggs	Tuba
Baby Dodds	Drums
Johnny Dodds	Clarinet
Earl Hines	Piano
Johnny St. Cyr	Banjo
John Thomas	Trombone