My favourite album: The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings by Louis Armstrong

Our writers are picking their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same. Here, Jon Wilde explains how Louis Armstrong's music pulled him back from the brink …Even though Louis Armstrong ultimately changed my life, I came to jazz late and not without a fight. As a teenager in the late 70s, I had my work cut out keeping up with the weekly welter of "catchy" post-punk releases, not to mention determining the artists between Little Richard and the Clash who were worth my time and...

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