Happy Birthday, Pops

Louis "Pops" Armstrong, born August 4, 1901, not as he mythologized, July 4, 1900, achieved everlasting fame recording about 65 sides with his Hot Five and Hot Seven aggregations between 1925 and 1928. On June 28, 1928, he waxed this featured piece "West End Blues" featuring Earl "Fatha" Hines on Piano and Jimmy Strong on clarinet. Thirty-six years later he knocked the Beadles off the No. 1 pop chart position with "Hello Dolly" which every human has heard. But how many know what Louis sounded like at his apex?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPCBieSESI