Canal Street Blues
Context
Cut on April 5, 1923, at the Gennett studios in Richmond (Indiana), during the first sessions of the Creole Jazz Band. The track illustrates New Orleans collective polyphony: Louis Armstrong's second cornet doubles King Oliver's part before a brief closing duet, and the clarinet takes the big solo.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to New Orleans jazz, Chicago. Among the origins and influences of New Orleans jazz: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Afro-diasporic roots, Ragtime, New Orleans.