[Dixielandjazz] Performance "Order" of St. Louis Blues

[dwlit at cpcug.org]

1. The original sheet music is found in W.C. Handy's "Blues: an
anthology". Don't know if it's still in print.
2. The lyrics certainly make more sense with the tango as part B.
3. Played as an instrumental performance, the tango might be seen as an
attention grabbing verse, followed by familiar melody with regular
dixieland rhythm, followed by C section with hard 4/4 or something akin to
boogie. My preference would be round of solos on B, then C 2X as out
choruses with hard stomping 4-on-the-floor rhythm.

--Sheik

> Both Louis Armstrong recordings of St. Louis Blues from the early '30s
> (the
> OKeh from '32? and the Victor from '33) start with the tango section,
> iirc.
> The Victor does for sure.
>
> Hal Vickery
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
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> Gluetje1 at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 5:58 PM
> To: Hal Vickery
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> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Performance "Order" of St. Louis Blues
>
> I have an email from a non-listee asking me to show him "one recording" of
> St. Louis Blues that does not start with "I hate to see", but instead
> starts
>
> with what I think of as the Latin section.  I don't think I will  have a
> problem doing that, but it takes me to a larger question.  What's  the
> known
> history
> on how the order of playing it got changed from ? original  sheet music?
> Opinions & knowledge out there in List Land?   Thanks!
> Ginny
>
>
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