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King Oliver and his Orchestra: Sweet Like This (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Recorded at the threshold of the Great Depression and the 1930s, this melancholy tune seems to presage King Oliver's ...

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

King Oliver: Everybody Does It in Hawaii (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

Among Hawaii's many enchanting gifts to the mainland is the steel guitar, named for its slide plied in lieu of finger...

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: 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: 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...

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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...

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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...

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

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...

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

King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators: Wa Wa Wa (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Most observers agree that Joe Oliver was among the first brass men (if not the first) to change his sound by sticking...

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

King Oliver's Jazz Band: Snag It (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Once New Orleans musicians started moving to Chicago in the 19-teens, South Side club owners began losing interest in...

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

King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators: Slow and Steady (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

This sweet, bluesy melody, coming a year after "Farewell Blues," reveals the King Oliver band becoming yet more arran...

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

Sippie Wallace (featuring King Oliver): Every Dog Has His Day (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

After Louis Armstrong had come and gone from King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, and after the band had collapsed, Oliver...

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

King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators: Farewell Blues (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music March 25, 09

Despite all the acclaim for King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and its historic issue of 37 sides, this cover of the New ...

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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 ...

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

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...

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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...

Johnny Dodds (with the New Orleans Wanderers): Perdido Street Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 11, 09

In the hierarchy of New Orleans jazz, the trumpet / cornet players are at the very top of the heap. They were often ...

Fletcher Henderson (with Louis Armstrong): Sugarfoot Stomp (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music March 27, 08

Fletcher Henderson’s “Sugarfoot Stomp” is very much an early recorded jazz repertory performance. It is a retitled v...

Joe Higham and Al Orkesta: Simple Dan(ce) (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music August 20, 09

What do you get when you cross Sun Ra, Miles Davis circa Get Up With It, Gong, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Balkan folk ...

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