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1927© Music by Joe "King" Oliver and Louis Armstrong
Joe "King" Oliver * Abend, La Dec 19, 1885
† Savannah, Ga Apr 8, 1938
Louis Armstrong * New Orleans, La Aug 4,1901
† New York City, Ny Jul 6, 1971
On April 5 1923 the first record date of Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, the
band recorded this piece.
Canal Street—at 170 feet six inches the widest business district street in the
country—was never paved curb-to-curb for the use of ordinary vehicles.
It originated as a “commons” area between the original city, also called the
French Quarter or Vieux Carré, and the American Quarter, which grew immediately
upriver. In the early 1800s, a canal was supposed to have been built down
the middle of this commons, 50 feet wide, connecting the Mississippi River to
the Basin Canal (also called the Carondelet Canal). The latter canal, now
filled in, formed a connection to Lake Ponchartrain, running from Bayou St. John
to Basin Street, where it ended in a large turning basin. The plan called
for 60 feet of reservation on each side of the new canal. The proposed
canal was never built, but the result was a 170 foot wide commons area, which
gradually evolved into a street with two roadways flanking a central reservation.
Source:
www.faculty.cs.uiuc.edu/~friedman/canal/Canal.htm
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