Jazz and Blues
Muddy Waters is remembered as being the father of the Chicago style of blues. Born in Mississippi, he moved to Chicago in 1943 to pursue a career as a professional musician. He signed to the newly founded Chess Records, run by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess. Chicago blues was influenced by the movement of black musicians during the Great Migration during this time, and includes the importance of the electric guitar and harmonica.
The "Bugle Call Rag" is a well-known jazz standard, written in the 1920s and first recorded in 1922. Here it's played by a band known as George Wettling's Chicago Rhythm Kings. George Wettling was a white Chicagoan introduced to jazz at Lincoln Gardens when he heard King Oliver's band. He learned how to play jazz drums, and played for bands large and small after that. However, his best work was with smaller groups in more experimental settings.