Luis Russell

piano, conductor · 1902–1963 · Careening Cay

Pianist and bandleader born in Panama and settled in New Orleans in 1919, he led one of the best orchestras of the late 1920s in New York. Louis Armstrong took over this orchestra in 1935, and Russell was its musical director for about eight years.

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Styles

• Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington
• New Orleans jazz

Landmark tracks

• The Very Thought of You (1946)

Sources

• Source

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