Singin' the Blues
Context
Song by Con Conrad and J. Russell Robinson, already more than five years old when Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke recorded it on February 4, 1927, for Okeh, without vocals; Beiderbecke had chosen it after a 1920 record by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. The melody is stated only in the last chorus. The Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry in 2005.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Chicago. Among the origins and influences of Chicago: New Orleans jazz, Dixieland (ODJB, 1917).