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King Oliver: High Society (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

"High Society" is one of many traditional jazz standards with confusing parentage. It was originally a march, written...

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Canal Street Blues (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 24, 09

Having left New Orleans in 1918, King Oliver played mostly around Chicago—with a year in California—for four years. T...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KING OLIVER

Joseph "King" Oliver helped deliver polyphonic ensemble swing from the New Orleans backwater. Oliver's Creole Jaz...

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Chimes Blues (alternate review) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 24, 09

Everything about this track screams 1923. Cornets instead of trumpets, clarinet not saxophone, banjo not guitar, wood...

King Oliver: Canal Street Blues (alternate review) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 24, 09

The first strain of this original blues by Joe Oliver has often been misinterpreted due to poor reissues of the origi...

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Chimes Blues (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music March 24, 09

This medium-tempo piece sounds like a jazz band playing around a china vase. It follows a winding garden path through...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KING OLIVER

Joseph "King" Oliver helped deliver polyphonic ensemble swing from the New Orleans backwater. Oliver's Creole Jaz...

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Dippermouth Blues (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 24, 09

"Dippermouth Blues," from the second day of the original Gennett sessions, opens with a 4-bar diminished lead, then t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KING OLIVER

Joseph "King" Oliver helped deliver polyphonic ensemble swing from the New Orleans backwater. Oliver's Creole Jaz...

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Dippermouth Blues (alternate review) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 24, 09

Joe 'King' Oliver is often remembered in jazz histories as a mere footnote to the more illustrious story of Louis Arm...

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Snake Rag (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

American jazz had forebears in minstrelsy and vaudeville, and the Creole Band's bassist/banjoist Bill Johnson had rec...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KING OLIVER

Joseph "King" Oliver helped deliver polyphonic ensemble swing from the New Orleans backwater. Oliver's Creole Jaz...

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Jazzin' Babies Blues (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Joe Oliver had so much power that he must have been born to play with a mute. According to Jelly Roll Morton, Oliver ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KING OLIVER

Joseph "King" Oliver helped deliver polyphonic ensemble swing from the New Orleans backwater. Oliver's Creole Jaz...

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Riverside Blues (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

A work of joy and salvation, this stirring piece sets the stage with four funereal minor-key measures, then emerges i...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KING OLIVER

Joseph "King" Oliver helped deliver polyphonic ensemble swing from the New Orleans backwater. Oliver's Creole Jaz...

Oliver, Joe 'King' posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 08

Cornetist Joe Oliver blew the blues through brass, and helped bring bottom-up swing to New Orleans at the turn of the...

Dodds, Johnny posted in Encyclopedia September 21, 08

While never as famous as Louis Armstrong or Jelly Roll Morton, clarinetist Johnny Dodds played a key role in bringing...

Dodds, Baby (Warren) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

"We played for the comfort of the people," said drummer Baby Dodds, recalling the way he spread the joys of New Orlea...

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