Luis Russell
- ASong of the Swanee
- B(Purvis)What's the use of cryin baby
- Label
- Parlophone
- Catalogue number
- R1669
- Genre
- Jazz
- Format
- 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
- Reference
- #11585
Luis Russell, a Cuban-American jazz pianist and bandleader active in New York in the late 1920s–early 1930s, recorded 'Song of the Swanee' and 'What's the Use of Cryin' Baby' for Parlophone. Russell led a significant jazz orchestra and recorded influential New Orleans-influenced jazz.
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