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Encyclopedia > Weary Blues

The Weary Blues is a 1915 tune by Artie Matthews. 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Artie Matthews (November 15, 1888 _ October 25, 1958) was a songwriter, pianist, and ragtime composer. ...


Despite the name, the form is a multi-strain ragtime rather than a conventional blues. (At the time it was published, many hot or raggy numbers were published with the word "Blues" in the title). It is often known by the alternative title Shake It and Break It, especially when played by New Orleans jazz bands. Second edition cover of Maple Leaf Rag, perhaps the most famous rag of all Ragtime is an American musical genre enjoying its peak popularity between 1899–1918. ... Blues music redirects here. ... Nickname: The Crescent City, The Big Easy, The City That Care Forgot, NOLA (acronym for New Orleans, LA) Location in the State of Louisiana and the United States Coordinates: Country United States State Louisiana Parish Orleans Founded 1718 Mayor Ray Nagin (D) Area    - City 350. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. ...


The first jazz recording of the number was made by Yellow Nunez with the Louisiana Five in 1919. The tune is a perenial jazz standard, especially with Dixieland groups. Important recordings of the piece include those by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet, and George Lewis. Alcide Nunez (March 17, 1884 - September 2, 1934) was an early jazz clarinetist. ... Jazz standard refers to a tune that is widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians. ... Dixieland music is a style of jazz. ... The New Orleans Rhythm Kings were one of the most influential jazz bands of the early/mid 1920s. ... Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901[1] – July 6, 1971) (also known by the nickname Satchmo, for satchel-mouth and Pops) was an American jazz musician. ... Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892 - August 8, 1940) was a jazz clarinetist, and older brother of drummer Baby Dodds. ... Sidney Bechet Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was a Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. ... George Lewis (13 July 1900 – 31 December 1969) was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in his later decades of life. ...


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On "The Weary Blues" (2006 words)
In "The Weary Blues" Hughes dealt with the blues singer and his song in relation to the speaker of the poem.
It combines traditional blues stanzas that emphasize the roots of African-American experience, touches of vaudeville blues as the roots were being "refined," pride in African-American creativity and forms of expression, and a sense of the weariness that ties together generations of African-Americans.
What the blues articulates is the simultaneous presence of the "tragic and comic aspects of the human conditions." Thus, the blues in the poem is not the conventional "either/or" condition configured within the Cartesian construct.
blues: Definition, Synonyms and Much More from Answers.com (5668 words)
The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of the blues' West African pedigree.
Blues performances were organized by the Theater Owners Bookers Association in nightclubs such as the Cotton Club, and juke joints, such as the bars along Beale Street in Memphis.
Jefferson was one of the few country blues performers to record widely, and may have been the first to record the slide guitar style, in which a guitar is fretted with a knife blade or the sawed-off neck of a bottle.
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