Chimes blues
Chimes Blues is a blues that King Oliver wrote and published in 1923. The title, which became the jazz standard , is often associated with Louis Armstrong , the featured soloist on the first record. You heard the future , noted Gary Giddins on Armstrong's first recorded solo .
background
The track, recorded with King Oliver and His Creole Jazz Band, contained the first recording of a cornet solo by Louis Armstrong. Chimes Blues "is a leisurely twelve-measure blues in C". According to Armstrong biographer Ilse Storb, "the shape and the instrumentation [...] are simple:
- After four bars of introduction , two choruses polyphonic- linear and two choruses homophonic- tonal collective improvisation follow . Lil imitates tubular bells on the piano for two blues sections , in broken chords, in high register. In addition, the Oliver Band plays chord beats on the first time of the four-quarter time. Louis Armstromg improvises 24 bars solo with a few off beats and triplets , melodic-chromatic playouts, sometimes 'dirty' in the tone, with a 'perky' high note. The collective ends the blues with a twelve-measure chorus. The trombone ( Honoré Dutrey ) plays a glissando production of two short bars. "
First recordings and later cover versions
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (with Louis Armstrong, Honoré Dutrey, Johnny Dodds , Lil Armstrong, Bud Scott and Baby Dodds ) recorded the song in Richmond, Indiana on April 5, 1923 for Gennett Records . The orchestras of Frank Westphal (Columbia) and Herb Wiedoeft (Brunswick) were among the musicians who also covered the song in 1923/24 . The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 289 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. by Chris Barber , George Brunies , Max Collie , Ken Colyer , Eddie Condon , Jimmy Dorsey , Art Hodes , Abbi Hübner , Joe Marsala , Turk Murphy , Monty Sunshine , Bob Wilber and the Dutch Swing College Band .
The title should not be confused with Fletcher Henderson's Chime Blues , which was also written in 1923 and was one of a series of titles that dealt musically with the wind chime effect. This included Johnny Dunn's Four O'Clock Blues and Midnight Blues .
Web links
- Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 357860772
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Title portrait at Jazz.com ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ilse Storb: Louis Armstrong. Biography with self-testimonials and picture documents. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989, p. 43f
- ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
- ↑ See Jeffrey Magee: The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz