West End Blues - Joe “King” Oliver

West End Blues - Louis Armsstrong


This chart combines a normal blues and a jazz blues chord progression. I recommend setting the repeat to only one time with how I set this up (mostly due to the repeat at the end of the head out).

A Section: Normal progression for the Head
B Section: jazz blues progression for interesting improv (with altered dominants)
C Section: Normal progression for blues improv (repeats for 24 total bars)
A Section: Head out (last 4 bars repeat).

Enjoy!

West End Blues - Joe Oliver

West End Blues (Simlified Version) - Joe Oliver

Louis Armstrong is the best performer of this song, but the songwriter is Joe Oliver.

This is the recording whereby Louis Armstrong codified Jazz ~1928. Truly a watershed moment ... Congratulations!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Kft3w-7DI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_Blues

West End Blues (Louis Armstrong) - Joe "King" Oliver