New Orleans Willie Jackson was a singer active in New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

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 and New York City

New York City

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 in the 1920s.

He sang blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

, jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, and comic

Comedy

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 numbers. He frequently performed with pianist Steve Lewis

Steve Lewis (musician)

Steve Lewis was a jazz pianist and composer.Lewis was born in New Orleans. He was influenced by the piano stylings of Tony Jackson and Jelly Roll Morton, and became the premier pianist in Storyville after those two older musicians left town. When the District was closed down in 1917 he went on...

 at Spanish Fort, New Orleans

Spanish Fort, New Orleans

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 and they recorded some phonograph records

Gramophone record

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. He also sang vocals in King Oliver's band the Dixie Syncopators http://www.redhotjazz.com/dixie.html. Two of his songs, "How Long

How Long, How Long Blues

"How Long, How Long Blues" is a traditional eight bar blues song, made famous by Leroy Carr on his 1928 Vocalion Records recording with the guitarist Scrapper Blackwell...

" and"She Keeps it Up All the Time," are featured on several New Orleans blues and jazz anthologies.