WEST END BLUES

Created on 12/01/2009
Latest update on 02/01/2023

Artist: King Oliver & his Dixie Syncopators
Author: King Oliver/Clarence Williams
Label: Vocalion
Year: 1928

Without Armstrong.

Covers:

1928:

Louis Armstrong [three weeks later, with Earl Hines on piano; turned out one of his key standards; it's out there, way in the galaxy, as musical sample on the Voyager mission]

1928:

Ethel Waters

1928:

Hazel Smith [with King Oliver on cornet and Clarence Williams on piano]

1939:

Jelly Roll Morton

1941:

Cootie Williams

1942:

Charlie Barnet

1947:

Frankie Laine [vocal version]

1948:

Claude Luter

1958:

George Lewis

1973:

Dutch Swing College Band

1982:

Fondy Riverside Bullet Band

2001:

Nicholas Payton

2009:

Allen Toussaint

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