<P> Armstrong also played with Erskine Tate's Little Symphony, which played mostly at the Vendome Theatre . They furnished music for silent movies and live shows, including jazz versions of classical music, such as "Madame Butterfly", which gave Armstrong experience with longer forms of music and with hosting before a large audience . He began to scat sing (improvised vocal jazz using nonsensical words) and was among the first to record it, on the Hot Five recording "Heebie Jeebies" in 1926 . The recording was so popular that the group became the most famous jazz band in the United States, even though they had not performed live to any great extent . Young musicians across the country, black or white, were turned on by Armstrong's new type of jazz . </P> <P> After separating from Lil, Armstrong started to play at the Sunset Café for Al Capone's associate Joe Glaser in the Carroll Dickerson Orchestra, with Earl Hines on piano, which was soon renamed Louis Armstrong and his Stompers, though Hines was the music director and Glaser managed the orchestra . Hines and Armstrong became fast friends and successful collaborators . </P> <P> In the first half of 1927, Armstrong assembled his Hot Seven group, which added drummer Al "Baby" Dodds and tuba player, Pete Briggs, while preserving most of his original Hot Five lineup . John Thomas replaced Kid Ory on trombone . Later that year he organized a series of new Hot Five sessions which resulted in nine more records . In the last half of 1928, he started recording with a new group: Zutty Singleton (drums), Earl Hines (piano), Jimmy Strong (clarinet), Fred Robinson (trombone), and Mancy Carr (banjo). </P> <P> Armstrong returned to New York, in 1929, where he played in the pit orchestra of the successful musical Hot Chocolates, an all - black revue written by Andy Razaf and pianist / composer Fats Waller . He also made a cameo appearance as a vocalist, regularly stealing the show with his rendition of "Ain't Misbehavin"', his version of the song becoming his biggest selling record to date . </P>

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