Louis Armstrong

Plays W.C. Handy ete Edition

Music On Vinyl

Wonderful. ‘One of the greatest recordings of jazz history,’ Nat Hentoff wrote in Down Beat.
Try Louis’ opening duet with Velma Middleton, an extravagantly affirmative New Orleans blues about sex, sexual attraction, sexual exploitation, sexual violence and death. A massive, rumbling groove, with choice male-female banter, and extended soloing, sent from heaven.
‘He always had a sense of humour so lacking in musicians of today,’ said Sun Ra. ‘He is part of my destiny.’

• St. Louis Blues
• Yellow Dog Blues
• Loveless Love
• Aunt Hagar's Blues
• Long Gone John (Fram Bowlin' Green)
• The Memphis Blues
• Beale Street Blues
• Ole Miss Blues
• Chantez Les Bas
• Hesitating Blues
• Atlanta Blues (Make Me One Pallet On Your Floor)