Weather Bird

Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines · 1928

Context

Trumpet and piano duo recorded on December 5, 1928, by Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines and released on OKeh 41454, presented at the time as a trumpet solo accompanied on piano by Hines. The work is credited to King Oliver, but Thomas Brothers attributes it to Armstrong, who had played it in 1923 with Oliver's band. The recording entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.

In the genealogy of jazz

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

By the same artist

• West End Blues (1928)
• Potato Head Blues (1927)
• Heebie Jeebies (1926)
• Muskrat Ramble (1926)
• When the Saints Go Marching In (1938)
• Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (1947)

Sources

• EN: Weather Bird
• adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu

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