Louis Armstrong . St. James Infirmary;Posted on 09/14/2013 6:31:26 PM PDT by virgil283
"Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain / So all the boys will know I died standing pat...."Recorded on December 12, 1928.....
Louis Armstrong . St. James Infirmary;
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Exquisite!
Love vintage jazz.
I actually have an original 78rpm of Louis Armstrong’s first appearance on record, as a sideman in King Oliver’s band, on the Gennett label, circa 1923.
Yes, I got it from a woman whose father was a musician back in the 1920s, and he bought records (in those pre-radio days) to help him learn to play. She gave me about 200 old records, including many of regional ‘territory’ jazz/dance bands. Lots of early ones recorded in New Orleans, in particular (Tony Parenti, Halfway House Orch, etc.).
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That was amazing! You know, there’s this bootleg app for smartphones called “Old Sh*t”. It lets you download old music. I mean really old artists like Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and Lena Horne. Some of that music is still relevant today if you listen to the lyrics. But your parents aren’t hip to it, so you have to grandma and grandpa to show you.
Two other similar-vintage jazz bands I’ve always liked (from the late-1920s) are those of Bennie Moten’s band (out of Kansas City), from which Count Basie was a member later on, and a small jazz group led by Tiny Parham, whose band might have lacked standout soloists, but always had both pep and a certain tastefulness. Both Moten and Parham recorded for Victor Records. Never tire of their stuff.
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