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I need some inspiration: What are your top 5 hottest tracks?

And by hot I mean where the musicians don't hold back, the solos are crazy and anyone in the room at the time wouldn't have been able to prevent themselves from dancing. Not necessarily fastest, nor dancefloor favourites today, just hottest playing.

My hottest five (subject to change!):

• Every Tub [live] - Count Basie And His Orchestra 1938
  Lafayette - Bennie Moten & His Kansas City Orchestra 1932
  Swing Is Here - Gene Krupa's Swing Band 1936
  Tattersfield Stomp - Count Basie & His Orchestra 1937
  Ozark Mountain Blues - The Missourians 1929

Discuss!

i'm sure this one is in my top five:

"sweet georgia brown", louis armstrong and his all-stars, 1957

and i more or less haphazzardly picked four more that seem to fit the bill:

"diminuendo in blue and crescendo in blue", ellington at newport, 1956
"flying home", ella fitzgerald, 1945
"bugle call rag", billy banks and his orchestra, 1932
"flying home"/"flying on a v-disc", the first esquire concert, 1944

Five possible candidates:

Blue Jazz, Lew Stone And His Band 1933
Flop, Joe Venuti 1939
Harlem Bound, Freddy Johnson And His Orchestra 1933
Lookin Good But Feelin Bad, Fats Waller and His Buddies 1929
Rigamarole, Les Brown & The Duke Blue Devils 1937

A fairly random top five, because there are so many more:

"I've Found a New Baby" - Basie, from The Golden Years, Vol. 3
"King Kong Stomp" - Joseph Robichaux and His New Orleans Rhythm Boys
"That's A-Plenty" - Earl Hines, from CC 1934-1937
"Shag" - Bechet, from Portrait
"Goin' Nuts" - Ellington, from Early Ellington

Haydn wrote:Five possible candidates:

Blue Jazz, Lew Stone And His Band 1933
Flop, Joe Venuti 1939
Harlem Bound, Freddy Johnson And His Orchestra 1933
Lookin Good But Feelin Bad, Fats Waller and His Buddies 1929
Rigamarole, Les Brown & The Duke Blue Devils 1937

Great. I have none of these tracks! Thanks a lot! now I have to go find them

lipi wrote: "sweet georgia brown", louis armstrong and his all-stars, 1957

Is that the one where Edmund Hall goes insane on his clarinet?

fredo wrote:

lipi wrote: "sweet georgia brown", louis armstrong and his all-stars, 1957

Is that the one where Edmund Hall goes insane on his clarinet?

that's the one.

Any more?

random 8 that are hot:

- Darktown Strutter's Ball - Tiny Bradshaw - 1934
- Little John Special - Lucky Millinder - 1942
- the Eel - Bud Freeman w/ Eddie Condon - 1933
- Wild Party - Buster Bailey w/ Fletcher Henderson - 1934?
- King Porter Stomp - Edmund Hall w/ Red Allen - 1939?
- Bugle Call Rag - Don Redman - 1936
- Rockin' in Rhythm - Duke Ellington -1966

plus, in the spirit of crazy clarinetists:

- Man with a Horn Goes Berserk - Buster Bailey w/ John Kirby - 1940?

sorry for the questionable dates -- I'll try and get them confirmed.