Chimes blues

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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 .

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Louis Armstrong at the Aquarium Nightclub, New York, circa July 1946. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb

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

  1. ↑ 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazz.com
  2. ↑ Ilse Storb: Louis Armstrong. Biography with self-testimonials and picture documents. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989, p. 43f
  3. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  4. ↑ See Jeffrey Magee: The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz