Sunday, July 5, 2015

Louis Armstrong - West End Blues


There's a reason this was called the most influential solo in the history of American popular music.  Both the trumpet and the singing.

Louis Armstrong, trumpet
Fred Robinson, trombone,
Jimmy Strong, clarinet and tenor saxophone,
Earl Hines, piano,
Mancy Carr, banjo,
Zutty Singleton on drums.

And that was just one of the pieces from just the 1920s, there were dozens of others that could as well prove my point.

Here's Potato Head Blues from the year before and the original personnel of the Hot Five.


Louis Armstrong, cornet (or trumpet, his playing on cornet is so strong it's hard to tell)
Johnny Dodds, Clarinet
Kid Ory, Trombone
Johnny St. Syr, banjo,
Lil Hardin Armstrong, piano

Compared to that, your choice of genius,  meh.

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