Relaxin' at the Touro
Context
Recorded on November 22, 1939 in New York and released on Bluebird (B-10532), this twelve-bar blues was co-written by Spanier and Joe Bushkin. It dates from the Ragtime Band sessions, later collected as The Great Sixteen, which revived the taste for Dixieland.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Dixieland (ODJB, 1917), Chicago. Among the origins and influences of Dixieland: New Orleans jazz.