455 Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) “St. Louis Blues” 1929

“With his 1929 version, Armstrong has moved to a very different universe from the one he inhabited some four years earlier…Certainly ‘St. Louis Blues’ has now become an ebullient dance number fusing a Latin quality with a gutsy, funky blues sound, to the point of anticipating what was to come more than twenty years later with early rock ‘n’ roll” (Joshua Berrett, Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz, 2004). 

Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues”