Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven has been played on NTS in shows including Happy Death w/ Ed Horrox, featured first on 4 September 1977. Songs played include Potato Head Blues and Melancholy Blues.

Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven was a jazz studio group organized to make a series of recordings for Okeh Records in Chicago, Illinois in May 1927. Some of the personnel also recorded with Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, including Johnny Dodds (clarinet), Lil Armstrong (piano), Johnny St. Cyr (banjo and guitar). These musicians were augmented by Johnny Dodds's brother, Baby Dodds (drums), Pete Briggs (tuba), and John Thomas (trombone,…