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"The Saint Louis Blues" (or "St. Louis Blues") is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914. It was one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song and remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire.
The National Blues Museum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit museum in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, dedicated to exploring the musical history and impact of the blues.It exists as an entertainment and educational resource focusing on blues music.
VanderCook Cornet School (later VanderCook College of Music) was founded in 1909 by Hale Ascher VanderCook (1864–1949) to train professional musicians, directors and teachers. The year 1909 is given as the founding date of VanderCook College because, in that year, Mr. VanderCook purchased the home, school and studios of his teacher, Alfred F ...
Handy credited Bernard with helping his own career by recording a number of his songs, notably "St. Louis Blues". Bernard recorded the song for nine different record labels, the most successful being what Handy called "the sensational Victor recording in which he sang with the Dixieland Jazz Band " .
Bennie Smith (October 5, 1933 in St. Louis, Missouri – September 10, 2006 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American, St. Louis blues guitarist, considered to be one of the city's patriarchs of electric blues. [1] His sound was emblematic of a St. Louis blues music that he helped define in over half a century practicing his trade.
[5] [14] He played for the St. Louis Blues’ 2019 Stanley Cup Championship, the first Stanley Cup in franchise history. [ 13 ] Boyer played the organ during "watch parties" held at Enterprise Center during the 2019 playoff season, and regularly plays at watch parties at Ballpark Village in St. Louis when the team is on the road.
In 2006 he released the album Round Two, which received three Blues Music Award nominations. [6] In 2006, Brock was featured in a documentary about his life titled Hard Times. In the film he visits the plantations where he worked as a child in Mississippi. [5] In 2017, Brock was honored with a special concert at the National Blues Museum in St ...
St. Louis Blues (retitled as Best of the Blues) [1] is a 1939 American musical film directed by Raoul Walsh and set on a Mississippi River showboat. Though the song " St. Louis Blues " is performed, the film's plot is not based on the song.