1.7 WHO’S WHO IN JAZZ AND BLUES

Here are some images and video/audio recordings of the Jazz and Blues greats, the Who’s Who in Jazz and Blues:

Watch or listen here: Glenn Miller Orchestra, In the Mood, 1941. 3:11² 

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Watch or listen here: Billie Holiday, The Very Thought of You. 2:46⁴

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Watch or listen here: Count Basie, One O’Clock Jump. 2:59⁶ 

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Watch or listen here: Duke Ellington, Mood Indigo. 4:16⁸

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Watch or listen here: Ella Fitzgerald & the Tee Carson Trio, Summertime, 1968. 3:39¹⁰

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Watch or listen here: Louis Armstrong, West End Blues. 3:21¹² 

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Watch or listen here: Scott Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag. 2:46¹⁴ 

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1.53 Bessie Smith, Feb 3. 1936.15

Watch or listen here: Bessie Smith, St. Louis Blues (1929). 4:08¹⁶ 

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Watch or listen here: Charlie “Bird” Parker, Jr., All the Things You Are. 3:08¹⁸

Watch or listen here: Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang, Louisiana, 1928. 2:47²⁰ 

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Watch or listen here: Muddy Waters, “You Can’t Lose What You Never Had.” 2:44²²

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Muddy Waters was born McKinley Morganfield in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, where he learned the Delta blues style from the first recorded generation of country blues artists such as Charley Patton. With many of his generation, Waters moved north to Chicago, here he pioneered the urban blues style, which is basically an extension of Delta blues (primarily a solo form) to a small band with amplification: electric guitar, piano, bass, drums and harmonica. Chicago named a street for Muddy. The ironic humor that is an often unrecognized aspect of the blues is evident in “You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had.” The theme of the lyric is obviously acceptance of loss, in fact, of the inevitability of loss in this life. The humor emerges from the dry questions which end the first lines of each stanza- “ain’t that sad?” In later years Muddy was in the habit of adding a final twist of the knife to the third verse. Instead of singing “it wasn’t my fault,” he sang “it was my own fault.” Now that’s sad.