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"Basin Street Blues" is a song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands, written by Spencer Williams in 1928 and recorded that year by Louis Armstrong. [1] The verse with the lyric "Won't you come along with me / To the Mississippi..." was later added by Glenn Miller and Jack Teagarden. The Basin Street of the title refers to the main street of ...
Their 1931 recording of "Basin Street Blues" featured Benny Goodman, who stated that it was the first time that he was able to show his own musical personality on record. [3] The group's rendition of "Someday Sweetheart" was featured on the soundtrack of the Depression-era crime drama Road to Perdition. [4]
One of them was "Basin Street Blues", which became one of his most popular songs and is still recorded by musicians to this day. [3] Williams toured Europe with bands from 1925 to 1928; during this time he wrote for Josephine Baker at the Folies Bergère in Paris. [1] Williams then returned to New York for a few years.
Back to Back is a 1959 studio album by Johnny Hodges and Duke Ellington.It was followed by Side by Side (1959), which combines three tracks recorded at one of the same sessions with six tracks recorded in August 1958 by a different, Hodges-led group that did not include Ellington.
"Basin Street Blues" is a slow stride addition to the album "Honeysuckle Rose" utilizes an up-tempo rendition of the original song "Dancing on the Ceiling" is the second slow-stride addition to the album, "A Child Is Born" is a slow ballade-style setting, stating the melody, then improvising slightly on that melody.
Seven Steps to Heaven is a studio album by the jazz musician Miles Davis.It was released through Columbia Records on July 15, 1963. [1] The recording took place at Columbia Studios in Los Angeles in April 1963, and at Columbia's 30th Street Studios in Manhattan in May 1963.
Constance Foore "Connee" Boswell (December 3, 1907 – October 11, 1976) [1] was an American vocalist born in Kansas City, Missouri, but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. With sisters Martha and Helvetia "Vet", she performed in the 1920s and 1930s as the trio The Boswell Sisters.
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven was a jazz studio group organized to make a series of recordings for Okeh Records in Chicago, Illinois, in May 1927. [1] Some of the personnel also recorded with Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, including Johnny Dodds (clarinet), Lil Armstrong (piano), and Johnny St. Cyr (banjo and guitar).