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. 1.
    St. Louis Blues
    8:52
  2. 2.
    Yellow Dog Blues
    4:17
  3. 3.
    Loveless Love
    4:29
  4. 4.
    Aunt Hagar’s Blues
    4:58
  5. 5.
    Long Gone (From the Bowlin’ Green)
    5:10
  6. 6.
    The Memphis Blues (or Mister Crump)
    3:00
  7. 7.
    Beale Street Blues
    4:57
  8. 8.
    Ole Miss Blues
    3:26
  9. 9.
    Chantez les bas (Sing ’Em Low)
    4:49
  10. 10.
    Hesitating Blues
    5:21
  11. 11.
    Atlanta Blues (Make Me One Pallet on Your Floor)
    4:34
  12. 12.
    George Avakian’s Interview With W.C. Handy
    2:45
  13. 13.
    Loveless Love (rehearsal sequence)
    5:56
  14. 14.
    Hesitating Blues (rehearsal sequence)
    5:40
  15. 15.
    Alligator Story
    0:47
  16. 16.
    Long Gone (From the Bowlin’ Green) (rehearsal sequence)
    7:53

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