Pete: Yes, Armstrong, but I think it was cornet, not that it matters all that much, except to purists. Armstrong's work with the BLUE FIVE followed his time with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. Before Armstrong joined the BLUE FIVE, the band was good. When Louis joined up, it was dynamite . . . a marvelous improvement over and already good recording group.
In listening to Bechet without Armstrong, then after Armstrong came on board, one gets the impression that Bechet may have met is match - at least his equal in a young Louis Armstrong.
The vocal on MANDY, MAKE UP YOUR MIND was by Clarence Williams' wife, Eva Taylor, who was a wonderful vocalist and could sing styles other than blues (not that MANDY, MAKE UP YOUR MIND is a blues).
There's a riff Armstrong and the band plays in the out-chorus that is repeated in Disney's animated movie, JUNGLE BOOK. Not surprising when you realize that JUNGLE BOOK's music was done by George Bruns, who played trombone and tuba in many trad bands in the 1940's and '50's, including Turk Murphy's San Fransico Jazz Band and the Firehouse Five plus Two.
Another recording from the Blue Five, CAKEWALKING BABIES FROM HOME features some of the hottest breaks and choruses from Bechet and Armstrong recorded by anyone in that era - one of my all-time favorite recordings. They did another version within a two-week period where the band was called the RED ONION JAZZ BABIES, but the ROJB version wasn't as hot as the BLUE FIVE's version.
Speaking of
http://www.redhotjazz.com, I have spent a lot of time on it, but there is another version from that site that lists all the recordings by song-title, alphabetically, and saves the surfer a lot of time by not having to plow through the text (but the text is interesting if one wants to learn more about the music and its players).
http://www.mainely-jazz.com/rhsongs/song_title.html DAVE