Those of you using the original WC Handy sheet music (the free one linked at the top) might like to hear this recording. I don't know if the piano sheet music is a reduction of the band score or if it went the other way around:
Also, I saw this in the WC Handy wikipedia article, and I think it's relevant, because I hear tango in the blues section:
Writing about the first time "Saint Louis Blues" was played, in 1914, Handy said,
The one-step and other dances had been done to the tempo of Memphis Blues. ... When St Louis Blues was written the tango was in vogue. I tricked the dancers by arranging a tango introduction, breaking abruptly into a low-down blues. My eyes swept the floor anxiously, then suddenly I saw lightning strike. The dancers seemed electrified. Something within them came suddenly to life. An instinct that wanted so much to live, to fling its arms to spread joy, took them by the heels.[24]
