Wynn's Creole Jazz Band's lyrics & chords

Albert Wynn is a little-known but very fine trombonist who worked with various big bands in Chicago during the 1920s, and visited Europe with Arthur Briggs in the early 1930s. The beautiful cornet work of Punch Miller, a New Orleans player whose obvious idol was - and still is - Louis Armstrong is noteworthy. The chase-chorus between Miller's scat vocal and Wynn's trombone on "Down By The Levee" is lifted straight out of Louis' "West End Blues", and Miller attempts an Armstrong coda. The lyrics of this beautiful blues, also sung by Punch, ar...read more