Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy is a 1954 studio release by Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, described by Allmusic as "Louis Armstrong's finest record...
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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...
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Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential...
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Ella and Louis to record Porgy and Bess. Armstrong's two recordings for Columbia Records, Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (1954) and Satch Plays Fats (all...
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St. James Infirmary Blues (category Louis Armstrong songs)
jazz standard that emerged, like many others, from folk traditions. Louis Armstrong brought the song to lasting fame through his 1928 recording, on which...
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The collaborations between Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong have attracted much attention over the years. The artists were both widely known icons...
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Patti Page Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers – Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy – Louis Armstrong and His All...
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octet. Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy (Columbia, 1954) Satch Plays Fats (Columbia, 1955) At Newport (Columbia, 1956) Louis and the Angels (Decca, 1957)...
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them. Armstrong, Louis and His All Stars - Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy Armstrong, Louis and His All Stars - Satch Plays Fats Armstrong, Armstrong - Volume...
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Louie" The Kingsmen Jerden 1963 Garage rock Single 1999 Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars Columbia 1954 Jazz Album 2010 "Love...
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II: Abraham and Isaac, Op. 51. 1952. Louis Armstrong. "Aunt Hagar's Blues." In Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy. Columbia Records, 1954. Morris Adler...
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In 2001, Armstrong's song "Pennies and Picks" from Got It Goin' On, earned him a W.C. Handy Award nomination for 'Song of the Year'. Armstrong himself...
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St. Louis Blues is a 1958 American film broadly based on the life of W. C. Handy. It stars jazz and blues greats Nat "King" Cole, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway...
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some of the trumpeter's best later recordings, including Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy (1954). From 1956 to 1963, Avakian produced several cornerstone...
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Hesitation Blues (section W.C. Handy version)
popular versions. Artists who have recorded the song include: Louis Armstrong (W.C.Handy version) Asylum Street Spankers Al Bernard Barney Bigard Milton...
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Satchmo the Great (category Louis Armstrong live albums)
American documentary film chronicling Louis Armstrong's 1955 international tour. Co-produced by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, the film features material...
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named after the famous W. C. Handy song "Saint Louis Blues", and plays in the 19,150-seat Enterprise Center in downtown St. Louis. The franchise was founded...
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Satchmo at Pasadena (category Louis Armstrong live albums)
Satchmo at Pasadena is a live album by Louis Armstrong that was recorded at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in 1951. Al Campbell at AllMusic gave the album...
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good foil for the trumpeter (such as their version of "St. Louis Blues" on Armstrong's W.C. Handy tribute album). In 1964, Young ceased touring in order to...
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Beale Street". Mayor Thornton and his three sons also played in Handy's band. In 1909, W. C. Handy wrote "Mr. Crump" as a campaign song for political machine...
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named after the W. C. Handy song "Saint Louis Blues". They play their home games at the 18,096 seat Enterprise Center in downtown St. Louis, which has been...
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Brown Jug" - (Joseph Winner. Arranged by Billy Finegan) "St. Louis Blues-March" - (W.C. Handy) Side 2 "In The Mood" - (Joe Garland) "A String of Pearls"...
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Buster Bailey (redirect from William C. Bailey)
gained his start with W.C. Handy's Orchestra in 1917, when he was just fifteen years old. After two years of touring with Handy, Bailey quit the orchestra...
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Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and W.C. Handy. Bands playing in the West Coast style use banjo and tuba in the rhythm sections, which play in a two-to-the-bar...
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84). Before World War II, the song was commonly known as "Stack O'Lee". W.C. Handy wrote that it probably was a nickname for a tall person, comparing him...
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working with Leon Abbey, Louis Armstrong, and Arthur Briggs.[citation needed] After returning to New York, he worked with W.C. Handy and Willie "The Lion"...
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Kid Ory (category Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five members)
1958 Song of the Wanderer 1959 At the Jazz Band Ball (Rhapsody) 1959 Plays W.C. Handy 1960 Dance with Kid Ory or Just Listen 1961 The Original Jazz 1961...
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performers. The most often recorded standards of this period are W. C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues", Turner Layton and Henry Creamer's "After You've Gone" and...
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Jazz (section W. C. Handy: early published blues)
11–14. Kubik 1999, p. 96. Palmer (1981: 46). Handy, Father (1941), p. 99. Schuller 1968, 66, 145n. W. C. Handy, Father of the Blues: An Autobiography, edited...
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Blues (redirect from St. Louis blues (music))
blues songs, such as "Dallas Blues" (1912) and "Saint Louis Blues" (1914). According to W.C. Handy, the "AAB" pattern was adopted to avoid the monotony...
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