The Satchmo Legacy Band

Salute To Pops - Vol. 2 is the second album of the Satchmo Legacy Band, a tribute to Louis Armstrong by a septet with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet. Like the first volume, it was recorded in London in June 1987 and issued by Soul Note in 1989. The programme draws on pieces associated with Armstrong, such as Muskrat Ramble, West End Blues and Potato Head Blues, and adds one long blues.

The band is Hubbard on trumpet and flugelhorn, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Alvin Batiste on clarinet, Al Casey on guitar, Kirk Lightsey on piano, Red Callender on bass and tuba and Alan Dawson on drums, with Casey and Dawson also singing. Discogs gives BBC Studios as the recording place of the first volume, and the discography of the label dates both volumes to the same sessions of June 16 and 17, 1987. The front line of trumpet, trombone and clarinet is the one of New Orleans jazz. Muskrat Ramble opens the record, followed by Blueberry Hill and 12th Street Rag. West End Blues comes fourth, and Blues For Duane, at almost twelve minutes, is the centrepiece and the longest track by far. That Old Devil Called Love and Potato Head Blues close the set. The two volumes divide the sessions between them: the first holds, among others, Struttin' With Some Barbecue, Gut Bucket Blues, Stardust and When The Saints Go Marchin' In.

Soul Note CD 121166-2, the original 1989 release of the second volume.