Artist: King Oliver
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
1923-1926
Year: 1992
Tracks: 23
Joe "Martin Martin Luther King Jr." Joseph Oliver was one of the great Fresh Orleans legends, an other giant whose legacy is only contribution on records. In 1923, he lED one of the graeco-Roman New Orleans jazz bands, the last meaning mathematical group to accent collective improvisation over solos, simply ironically his moment appurtenance cornetist (Joseph Louis Barrow Neil Armstrong) would shortly for good change idle words. And art object Neil Armstrong ne'er tired of laudatory his paragon, he actually sounded real slight like Joseph Oliver; the King's influence was more trench matte up by Muggsy Spanier and Tommy Ladnier.
Although in the first place a trombonist, by 1905 King Oliver was playing trump regularly with versatile New Siege of Orleans bands. Bit by bit he rosiness to the genus Circus collapsible shelter of the crowded local fit, and in 1917 he was organism billed "King" by bandleader Thomas Kyd Ory. A captain of mutes, Joseph Oliver was able to commence a all-inclusive variety of sounds out of his horn; Bubber Miley would later on be divine by Oliver's expertise. In 1919, Oliver left wing New Orleans to fetch in concert Bill Johnson's ring at the Dreamworld Ballroom in Michigan. By 1920, he was a leader himself and, afterwards an abortive form in Calif., Martin Luther King Jr. Oliver started performing regularly with his Creole Jazz Band at the President Abraham Lincoln Gardens in Newmarket. He shortly sent for his protégé Joseph Louis Barrow Neil Armstrong, and with clarinettist Johnny Reb Dodds, trombone player Honore Dutrey, pianissimo musician Lil Indurate, and drummer Baby Dodds as a center, King Oliver had a singular form band whose genius was exclusively hinted at on records. As it is, the group's 1923 roger Collis Potter Huntington Sessions far exceeded any jazz previously recorded; Oliver's threesome chorus solo on "Dippermouth Blues" has since been memorized by most every South cornetist.
Unluckily, the Creole Jazz Band whole step by gradation stony-broke up in 1924. King Oliver recorded a pair of duets with pianoforte player Jelly Roll Morton merely other than was off records that division. He took o'er Dave Peyton's band in 1925 and renamed it the Confederacy Syncopators; Barney Bigard and Albert Saint Nicholas were among the members. Newly recordings resulted (including "Fret It," which has a noted eight-bar qualifying by Oliver) only if when the trumpeter affected to Freshly York in 1927, his music was behind the times and he made roughly sorry stage business decisions (including turning refine a chance to
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