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Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
1964 Big City Blues (Vanguard) – includes the first blues-rock cover of Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man", later made famous by the Doors. 1965 Country Blues (Vanguard) 1965 So Many Roads (Vanguard) 1967 Mirrors (Vanguard) – reissued on Real Gone Music in 2016. 1967 I Can Tell ; 1968 Sooner or Later (Atlantic) – reissued on Water Music in 2002.
Redbone at Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada in 2007. Leon Redbone (born Dickran Gobalian; [2] [3] August 26, 1949 – May 30, 2019) was a singer-songwriter and musician specializing in jazz, blues, and Tin Pan Alley classics.
"Right Place, Wrong Time" is a song by American musician Dr. John. It was the first single from his sixth album, In the Right Place , and became his biggest hit single. During the summer of 1973, the song peaked at number nine on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 .
Columbia Records 78 by the Charleston Chasers with additional lyrics by Jack Teagarden and Glenn Miller, 1931 First eight bars of the jazz standard "Basin Street Blues" on tenor sax " 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 ]
Clara Smith (March 13, 1894 – February 2, 1935) [1] was an American classic female blues singer, billed as the "Queen of the Moaners", [1] although she had a lighter and sweeter voice than many of her contemporaries.
"St. James Infirmary" on tenor sax "St. James Infirmary" is an American blues and jazz standard that emerged, like many others, from folk traditions. Louis Armstrong brought the song to lasting fame through his 1928 recording, on which Don Redman is named as composer; later releases credit "Joe Primrose", a pseudonym used by musician manager, music promoter and publisher Irving Mills. [1]
John Carl Hendricks (September 16, 1921 – November 22, 2017), known professionally as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments with vocalists, such as the big-band arrangements of Duke Ellington and Count Basie.