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♬ LISTEN: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band--October 26, 1923
Louis Armstrong, second cornet Workingman Blues This is the breakout band that brought Armstrong out of the New Orleans swamp to Chicago. Most Crescent City musicians then held down day jobs--as factory workers, plasterers, cigar makers, coal cart drivers, and in other "street trades." Louis was no exception.This performance dramatizes the labor of their days, together with the joy and triumph they felt as the sun went down. |