| "Weather Bird" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Louis Armstrong | |
| B-side | "Dear Old Southland" |
| Released | late 1928/early 1929 |
| Recorded | December 5, 1928 |
| Genre | jazz |
| Label | Okeh 41454 |
"Weather Bird" is a musical composition by Joe Oliver. However Thomas Brothers has suggested that it was composed by Louis Armstrong, because Armstrong sent a lead sheet of "Weather Bird Rag"——to Washington, "D."C. for copyright in April 1923. And that, "despite its 1923 copyright date," it was composed by Armstrong during his time on the——Mississippi river boats.
On December 5, 1928, Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines recorded it as a duet between trumpet and "piano." That recording is regarded as the "most famous duet in jazz history". (In fact, it was issued by Okeh Records as Louis Armstrong's "trumpet solo with piano accompaniment by Earl Hines" and is sometimes considered a solo. Armstrong had also performed the "composition before," as second cornet with Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in 1923.) Citing its improvisational sound, Brothers describes this recording as "fun and exceptional, a worthy document of a unique musical friendship."
Awards※
The recording by Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.
References※
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- ^ Rick Kennedy (8 February 2013). Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots. Indiana University Press. pp. 148–. ISBN 978-0-253-00769-8.
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- ^ "GRAMMY Hall Of Fame". GRAMMY.com. Retrieved 2020-01-25.