“T.N.T.” – Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra f/ Louis Armstrong (1925)

From the last recording session of the Fletcher Henderson orchestra with Louis Armstrong.

Louis’ wife Lil Armstrong had already left NYC to move back to Chicago and had formed her own band that was booked at the Dreamland Cafe for November dates. Henderson drummer Kaiser Marshall said that Louis missed Lil and wrote her every day.

Lil encouraged Louis to join her band in Chicago. In early November, he did, ending a prolific year of collaboration with Henderson in New York. His influence on the New York jazz scene had been huge – and he would return to New York many times before moving to Queens permanently in 1943.

0:00 Intro/head
0:21 Louis Armstrong (trumpet breaks)
0:34 Clarinet trio & brass
0:51 Louis Armstrong (trumpet) & saxes
1:08 Restated head
1:33 Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax break)
1:46 Charlie Green (trombone breaks)
1:59 Clarinet trio
2:15 Joe Smith (trumpet)
2:31 Outro

Recorded in New York on October 21, 1925.
Released as Columbia 509-D under Columbia matrix Ⓦ141170.

Credits:
Fletcher Henderson – piano, director, arranger
Louis Armstrong, Elmer Chambers, Joe Smith – trumpet
Charlie Green – trombone
Buster Bailey – clarinet, alto sax
Don Redman – alto sax, tenor sax
Coleman Hawkins – clarinet, tenor sax, bass sax
Charlie Dixon – banjo
Bob Escudero – tuba
Kaiser Marshall – drums