St. Louis Blues

| G/// | G/ Am6/ | G/// | G7/// | C/// | C#6/// | G/// | G/// | 

| Am6/// | Am6/// | G/ Cm/ | G/// | G/// | G/// | G/// | G7/// |

| C/// | C#6/// | G/// | G/// | Am6/// | Am6/// | G/ Am6/ | G/// | 

| G/// | G/// | G7/// | Bm7b5/// | D(/C)/// | D(/C)/// | G/// | G/// |

| Am6/ Eb7/ | Am6/// | G/ Cm/ | G/// | Gm7/// | Gm7/// | Am6/// | Am6/// |

| Am6/// | Am6/// | Gm7/// | Gm7/// | Gm7/// | Gm7/// | Am6/// | Am6/// | 

| Am6/// | Am6/// | Gm7/// | Am6/// | G/// | G/// | G/// | G/// |

| G/// | G7/// | G7/// | C/// | C/// | C#6/// | C#6/// | G/// |

| G/// | G/// | G/// | Am6/// | Am6/// | Am6/// | Am6/// | G/// |

| CM7/// | CM7/// | G/// | G/// | G/// | G7/// | C/// | C#6/// |

| G/// | G/// | Am6/// | Am6/// | G/ Cm/ | G/// | G/// :||

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Prompt: Use case: illustration-story. One original editorial feature illustration for Djangopedia's guide “St. Louis Blues”. Landscape 1536 × 1024, opaque background. Scene: A fictional five-piece guitar, clarinet, piano, bass and drums rehearsal spreads across two connected floor zones, one bright and one dark, held together by a broad repeated pulse. Multi-section major/minor narrative is visible, not a generic twelve-bar logo. Musical basis from the guide: This piece rewards learning an arrangement rather than calling a generic blues. Major and minor passages create a broader narrative, and each ensemble must agree how those passages fit together. The supplied chart is G major / G minor in the inherited arrangement; form: Multi-section blues arrangement; source has 87 cells; feel: Swing. These describe musical inspiration, not visible writing. Historical context: St. Louis Blues is credited here to W. C. Handy. The source date is 1914; publication, composition and later lyric adaptations may have separate dates. Do not illustrate disputed historical claims or suggest this imagined scene is an archival session. Medium: linocut. Dominant palette: black white and mustard. Composition: two connected rehearsal zones. Human presence: five small figures. Strong intentional design, clearly drawn/painted, distinctive material marks; keep essential subject safely within the central 70 percent width and middle 80 percent height for card crops. Maintain enough visual substance at thumbnail size. Broad inspiration observed in old photo, ONLY scale/rhythm and never a reference image: tall pair; performer plus listener; deep dark field. Independently invent every pose, perspective, clothing, setting and lighting. Avoid: No copied singer/guitar pose, racial caricature, historic club signage. No photorealism, archival simulation, generated text, letters, numbers, labels, fake musical notation, logo, signature, watermark, fake dates, yellowed-paper patina, recognizable artwork or copied photograph. No imitation of any named artist. Render the art edge to edge without borders, mockup or typography. Batch B diversity compensation: make light and midtone areas substantial; avoid near-black dominant backdrops, violet monochrome, empty chair/stool/bench compositions, repeated sunset terraces and generic cloud panoramas. Preserve the stated tune-specific scene. Human figures remain standing or peripheral except an explicitly named ensemble; no centered seated Django portrait. For graphic images use clearly plain colour shapes, no ruled parallel staffs, circles with stems, note-like marks or typography.

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