Weather Bird
| "Weather Bird" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Louis Armstrong | |
| B-side | "Dear Old Southland" |
| Released | late 1928 or early 1929 |
| Recorded | December 5, 1928 |
| Genre | jazz |
| Label | Okeh 41454[1] |
| Official audio | |
| "Weather Bird" on YouTube | |
"Weather Bird" is a musical composition by Joe Oliver.[2] 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[3]: 108 and that, despite its 1923 copyright date, it was composed by Armstrong during his time on the Mississippi river boats.[3]: 313
On December 5, 1928, Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines recorded it as a duet between trumpet and piano.[2][4][5][6] That recording is regarded as the "most famous duet in jazz history".[7] (In fact, it was issued by Okeh Records as Louis Armstrong's "trumpet solo with piano accompaniment by Earl Hines"[1] and is sometimes considered a solo.[4] Armstrong had also performed the composition before, as second cornet with Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in 1923.[2]) Citing its improvisational sound, Brothers describes this recording as "fun and exceptional, a worthy document of a unique musical friendship."[3]: 313–17
Awards
[edit | edit source]The recording by Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008.[8]
References
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