4.5 Stars - Very Good Plus - "...Louis Armstrong and King Oliver together with the Creole Jazz Band in 1923, confidently took jazz beyond showiness to majesty...Creole tracks are the first jazz masterworks...", "...Armstrong seems about ready to bust out, suspended between the polyphonic interplay of the New Orleans ensemble and his love for role model Joe Oliver (it's often challenging to tell who's who), with teasing intimations of the solo breakthroughs to come..."