The Satchmo Legacy Band

Salute To Pops Vol. 1 is the first of two albums the Satchmo Legacy Band made for Soul Note, a seven-piece tribute to Louis Armstrong released in 1989. The group was led on trumpet and flugelhorn by Freddie Hubbard and played Armstrong's repertoire and the songs around it. The front line had trombonist Curtis Fuller and clarinettist Alvin Batiste beside Hubbard, which gives the band the trumpet, trombone and clarinet of the classic New Orleans front line. A second volume, Salute To Pops Vol. 2, followed on the label from the same line-up.

The rhythm section was guitarist Al Casey, pianist Kirk Lightsey, bassist Red Callender and drummer Alan Dawson. According to the credits listed by Discogs the album was recorded at BBC Studios, mixed at Jingle Machine Studios and mastered at PhonoComp. The programme goes back to the core of the Armstrong book. Lil Hardin Armstrong's Struttin' With Some Barbecue opens it, followed by an Ellington interlude of In A Sentimental Mood and Sophisticated Lady. Armstrong's own Gut Bucket Blues, Kid Ory's Ory's Creole Trombone, Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust and Wild Man Blues, credited to Jelly Roll Morton and Armstrong, fill out the set. Batiste wrote the one new piece, the eight-minute Blues For Pops, and the record ends with When The Saints Go Marching In.

This is the Soul Note CD 121116-2, which Discogs lists with this barcode as the album's 1989 CD issue.