Music : King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band 1923-1924

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 6089179007120
Label: Retrieval
Manufacturer: Retrieval
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Retrieval
Release Date: June 01, 2006
Studio: Retrieval
Sales Rank: 30077

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Disc 1:

1. Just Gone
2. Canal Street Blues
3. Mandy Lee Blues
4. I'm going away to wear you off my mind
5. Chimes Blues
6. Weather Bird Rag
7. Dipper Mouth Blues
8. Froggie Moore
9. Snake Rag
10. Snake Rag
11. Sweet Lovin' Man
12. High Society Rag
13. Sobbin' Blues
14. Where did you go last night?
15. Dipper Mouth Blues
16. Jazzin Babies Blues
17. Alligator Hop
18. Zulu's Ball
19. Working man Blues
20. Krooked Blues

Disc 2:

1. Chattanooga Stomp
2. London Cafe Blues
3. Camp Meeting Blues
4. New Orleans Stomp
5. Buddy's Habits
6. Tears
7. I ain't Gonna Tell Nobody
8. Room Rent Blues
9. Riverside Blues
10. Sweet Baby Doll
11. Workin' Man Blues
12. Mabel's Dream
13. Mabel's Dream
14. Mabel's Dream
15. The Southern Stomps
16. The Southern Stomps
17. Riverside Blues
18. Kiss Me Sweet
19. Construction Gang
20. King Porter Stomp
21. Tom Cat

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Rating: - The First Great Jazz Records
Having lived with these tracks for about 50 years, repeated listening has confirmed that these are the finest recordings of a 'classic' New Orleans ensemble ever made. The front line are completely integrated with no one (not even Louis Armstrong!) trying to hog the limelight. There are no 'star' soloists and the cornets, clarinet, and trombone, although distinctive voices, blend together to create a polyphony so perfect as to almost defy belief.

Sadly, this perfection could not ... Read More

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Rating: - This is how it started
There is that marching beat, harking back to the funerals and parades of New Orleans, and the popular songs and tunes of the day that any self-respecting musician had in his repertoire.
Armstrong's first solo! And you can easily play a track half a dozen times trying to distinguish between the cornets of Oliver and Armstrong, they're so entangled and anyway I'm far from sure who is who. Dodds warbling along on his clarinet is always a joy.
This CD is sheer bliss for a lover of raw ... Read More

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Rating: - The authentic jazz sound of New Orleans
This double album embraces 41 recordings made after the closing of Storyville and the shift of jazz from its birthplace in New Orleans. No jazz recordings had been made when Joe "King" Oliver formed his first bands and played there alongside such other New Orleans jazz "greats" as Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds and Sidney Bechet. The CDs include 37 tracks by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, 2 tracks with King Oliver and Clarence Williams accompanying vaudeville singers Jodie and Susie Edwards, and 2 tracks ... Read More

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