Level: 3
Tuning: Standard

Basin Street Blues is a song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands. It was written by Spencer Williams and published in 1926. It was made famous in a recording by Louis Armstrong in 1928. The Basin Street of the title refers to the main street of Storyville, the notorious red-light district of the early 20th-century New Orleans, just north of the French Quarter. It became a red light district in 1897. Ernie has arranged this in the key of C, with a few Mills Brothers touches.