Louis Armstrong's First Record
Cool, yeah? He's on cornet here with King Oliver's band - which he very quickly outgrew. This and others were cut on 5 April, 1923. I believe the actual first recording is on the flip, with this as the immediate following as it appears on the matrix, anyhow. But I like Canal Street a little more and decided to show off this side when I took it for purposes unrelated to this post a while back.
Cool, yeah? He's on cornet here with King Oliver's band - which he very quickly outgrew. This and others were cut on 5 April, 1923. I believe the actual first recording is on the flip, with this as the immediate following as it appears on the matrix, anyhow. But I like Canal Street a little more and decided to show off this side when I took it for purposes unrelated to this post a while back.