Maggie's Blue Five toured and recorded with

Eva Taylor

1976, disbanded same year, and in its place the

Weatherbird Jazzband

 was founded with Ulf Johansson at the piano -
a band well suited to take part in the recording project:

Louis Armstrong's 50 Hot Choruses 1927 vol 1-2

interpreting transcribed solos
published by Melrose Brothers in 1927 from long lost
cylinder recordings