Basin Street Blues | traditional jazz

98 years of Basin Street Blues! "Basin Street Blues" of the title refers to the main street of Storyville in New Orleans and a jazz standard often performed by traditional Jazz Bands, written by Spencer Williams in 1928 and recorded that year by Louis Armstrong. However, when the song was recorded, the street no longer existed. City leaders, anxious to erase the area's reputation for legal prostitution, had changed the street’s name to the innocuous "North Saratoga." In 1960ths because of the song's popularity, the city changed the history name back to Basin Street.