Search results for "Johnny Dodds"

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 ...

Johnny Dodds: Blue Clarinet Stomp (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Those of you who think early New Orleans jazzmen were ignorant hacks, please behold Charlie Alexander playing ‘Vesti ...

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...

Blind Blake: C.C. Pill Blues (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 18, 08

Blind Arthur Blake's biographical info is sketchy at best, while his influence on guitar players is vast. No one is s...

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: 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: 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...

Louis Armstrong (featuring Lonnie Johnson): I'm Not Rough (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 08, 09

Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens recordings are not just jazz classics, they are among the most important a...

Louis Armstrong (featuring Lonnie Johnson): Hotter Than That (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music January 08, 09

Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens recordings are fundamental documents in the history of American music. By ...

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...

Jelly Roll Morton: Wolverine Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

The success of this tune may have helped convince Morton to devote all his energies to music. Morton claimed to have ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JELLY ROLL MORTON

   Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...

Louis Armstrong: Potato Head Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

In the 1890s, architect Louis Sullivan perceived that switching from masonry to steel-frame construction required an ...

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...

Louis Armstrong: Potato Head Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 10, 09

"Hello Dolly" and "What a Wonderful World" may get the airplay. "West End Blues" might receive more praise in the ja...

Jelly Roll Morton: Jungle Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Before becoming jazz's first great composer, Jelly Roll Morton spent years entertaining within the bizarre Black Mins...

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'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...

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...

Louis Armstrong: Struttin' With Some Barbecue (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

If jazz had a Mount Rushmore, everybody knows who would have pride of place. Washington was Father of His County, and...

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