Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
Album by Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, released in 1954. It features jazz and blues arrangements of early twentieth-century compositions associated with W.C. Handy and was part of Armstrong's mid-1950s work that revisited New Orleans jazz phrasing and blues expression within larger ensemble and swing-influenced arrangements.
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- 1.St. Louis Blues8:57
- 2.Yellow Dog Blues4:18
- 3.Loveless Love4:35
- 4.Aunt Hagar's Blues5:00
- 5.Louis Armstrong Monologue0:46
- 6.Long Gone (From Bowlin' Green)4:16
- 7.Memphis Blues (Or Mister Crump)3:02
- 8.Beale Street Blues5:00
- 9.Ole Miss4:43
- 10.Chantez Les Bas (Sing 'em Low)4:51
- 11.Hesitating Blues5:24
- 12.Atlanta Blues (Make Me One Pallet on Your Floor)4:33