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of his day and, in particular, by W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues." The sound of the blues opens the symphony. Still and George ...

She followed that success in 1925 with W.C. Handy's song "St. Louis ... the role by the song's composer W.C. Handy, who was also a collaborator ...

since 1912 in Memphis, Tennessee with W. C. Handy's "Memphis Blues". ... using a knife blade, recorded by W.C. Handy in his autobiography, corresponds ...

Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and W.C. Handy. Bands playing in the West Coast style use banjo and tuba in the rhythm sections, which play in ...

jazz, spirituals and the symphonic music of W.C. Handy's Orchestra and Jubilee singers. The first major film musical with a black cast was King ...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, W.C. Handy took blues across the tracks and made it respectable, even "high-toned." ...