Basin Street Blues (Louis Armstrong)

Louis Armstrong · 1928 · Séance du 4 décembre 1928, Chicago

Context

Armstrong's version of the Spencer Williams standard, recorded in Chicago in early December 1928 for OKeh. The source table does not specify the exact lineup for this side.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Chicago, New Orleans jazz. Among the origins and influences of Chicago: New Orleans jazz, Dixieland (ODJB, 1917).

By the same artist

• West End Blues (1928)
• Weather Bird (1928)
• Beau Koo Jack (1928)
• Potato Head Blues (1927)
• Hotter Than That (1927)
• Willie the Weeper (1927)

Sources

• EN: Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions

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