Critical Listening 2

Weather bird - Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines

I was able to distinguish Trumpet and Piano while listening to this piece. The Trumpet obviously being played by Louis Armstrong and the Piano being played by Earl Hines. Through out the song it's very obvious to me that this is a very improvisational based piece. It seems at times as if the two men are dueling each other to see how well they can accompany one another's playing. Louis repeats certain melodies but then changes and spices them up towards the end of them. It gives a nice new fresh tone almost like your hearing a completely new strain of music. The BPM of the song seems to be between 103 and 105. Whenever Earl Hines begins to solo it's hard for me to keep count because it almost seems like he loses himself in his solo around 1:30. I would say the song keeps certain foundational properties through out but I'm having a hard time distinguishing them. I'm not sure how to understand the format of a piece when the whole song seems like one big solo. I will definitely be a little more careful when it comes to my critical listenings. Louis Armstrong is a tricky musician for me to understand with my very basic knowledge of dissecting music.