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A History of New Orleans Music in 100 Tracks (Part One) posted in Features and Interviews August 26, 09Edited by Ted Gioia New Orleans does not rank in the top 50 cities in the US, when measured by population. It...
THE DOZENS posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 01, 07In African-American tradition, "the dozens" is an informal exchange filled with ribaldry, taunting and clever put dow...
Oliver, Joe 'King' posted in Encyclopedia July 17, 08Cornetist Joe Oliver blew the blues through brass, and helped bring bottom-up swing to New Orleans at the turn of the...
Watch Out Wikipedia . . . Here We Come! posted in The Jazz.com Blog August 28, 08The jazz.com team continues to work behind-the-scenes on our on-line Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians. Under the lead...
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: Canal Street Blues (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 24, 09Having 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 (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music March 24, 09This 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: Snake Rag (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music March 25, 09American 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, 09Joe 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, 09A 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...
Sippie Wallace (featuring King Oliver): Every Dog Has His Day (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music March 25, 09After Louis Armstrong had come and gone from King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, and after the band had collapsed, 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 Jazz Band: Snag It (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 25, 09Once New Orleans musicians started moving to Chicago in the 19-teens, South Side club owners began losing interest in...
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 and his Dixie Syncopators: Wa Wa Wa (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 25, 09Most observers agree that Joe Oliver was among the first brass men (if not the first) to change his sound by sticking...
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 and his Dixie Syncopators: Farewell Blues (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music March 25, 09Despite all the acclaim for King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and its historic issue of 37 sides, this cover of the New ...
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 and his Dixie Syncopators: Slow and Steady (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music March 25, 09This sweet, bluesy melody, coming a year after "Farewell Blues," reveals the King Oliver band becoming yet more arran...
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 and his Orchestra: Sweet Like This (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music March 25, 09Recorded at the threshold of the Great Depression and the 1930s, this melancholy tune seems to presage King Oliver's ...
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...
Jazz is Worth a Million Words posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 09, 09Our collection of track reviews on jazz.com is now approaching the one million word mark. It gives me a twinge of ca...
A History of New Orleans Music in 100 Tracks (Part Two) posted in Features and Interviews September 02, 09Edited by Ted Gioia Below is the second and final part of jazz.com's history of New Orleans music in 100 tracks. ...
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