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West End Blues - Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong and his 'hot five' would have performed this piece in the late 1920s. Ko-ko was actually composed by Joe "KING" Oliver, when Louis Armstrong was a member of King Oliver's band before it split up in 1924. Joe Oliver, cornetist, bandleader and composer, was one of the earliest influential Blues pioneers. His work was typical of the New Orleans' style, which had developed from the Black African slave chants of the cotton fields, influencing the "folk" or local popular music of the era and area. The set up of the ensemble would have been: Brass - trumpet and trombone Reed - clarinet Rhythm - piano, banjo, drums This piece starts with a solo trumpet (Armstrong) playing six bars of syncopated, rubato arpeggios and broken chords in the key of Eb major using the blue notes of the key which are F# and Db. The main 12 bar...

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