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Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five · 1928 · Séance de décembre 1928, Chicago

Context

Recorded in Chicago in December 1928 under the name Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five. The source table credits it to Hill, Armstrong and Milrose.

In the genealogy of jazz

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

By the same artist

• West End Blues (1928)
• Weather Bird (1928)
• Basin Street Blues (Louis Armstrong) (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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