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Shanghai Shuffle

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Recorded
  
October 10, 1924

Label
  
Pathé , Vocalion

Genre
  
Jazz

Composer(s)
  
Larry Conley and Gene Rodemich


Shanghai Shuffle is a 1924 jazz standard composed by Fletcher Henderson. It is in the key of F major and is evidently influenced by "Limehouse Blues". The signature clarinet sound has an eastern quality to it; Jeffrey Magee calls it an attempt to "reinforce the exotic jazz-Chinese connection".

References

Shanghai Shuffle Wikipedia


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