Description
Release Date: 2013
Label: Acrobat Music
Track List
Disc 1
1 Canal Street Blues King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
2 Dippermouth Blues King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
3 Sweet Lovin’ Man King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
4 Buddy’s Habit King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
5 Working Man Blues King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
6 Riverside Blues King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
7 Don’t Forget To Mess Around Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
8 Lonesome Blues Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
9 Perdido Street Blues New Orleans Wanderers
10 Gatemouth New Orleans Wanderers
11 Too Tight New Orleans Wanderers
12 Papa Dip New Orleans Wanderers
13 I Can’t Say New Orleans Bootblacks
14 Flat Foot New Orleans Bootblacks
15 Stockyards Strut Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals
16 Someday Sweetheart King Oliver’s Dixie Syncopators
17 House Rent Rag Dixieland Jug Blowers
18 Memphis Shake Dixieland Jug Blowers
19 Loveless Love Dodds and Parham
20 I’m Goin’ Huntin’ Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizzards
21 If You Want To Be My Sugar Papa Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizzards
22 Oh! Lizzie (A Lover’s Lament) Johnny Dodds Trio
23 Weary Blues Johnny Dodds’ Black Bottom Stompers
24 Wild Man Blues Johnny Dodds’ Black Bottom Stompers
25 Willie The Weeper Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven
Disc 2
1 Wild Man Blues Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven
2 Alligator Crawl Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven
3 Potato Head Blues Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven
4 Keyhole Blues Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven
5 Billy Goat Stomp Jelly Roll Morton And His Red Hot Peppers
6 The Pearls Jelly Roll Morton And His Red Hot Peppers
7 Wolverine Blues The Jelly Roll Morton Trio
8 Weary Way Blues Jimmy Blythe’s Owls
9 Hot Stuff Jimmy Blythe’s Owls
10 Joe Turner Blues Johnny Dodds’ Black Bottom Stompers
11 When Erastus Plays His Old Kazoo Johnny Dodds’ Black Bottom Stompers
12 Ballin’ The Jack The Chicago Footwarmers
13 Oriental Man The Chicago Footwarmers
14 My Baby Jimmy Blythe’s Washboard Wizards
15 Oriental Man (Alt. version) Jimmy Blythe’s Washboard Wizards
16 Southbound Rag Blind Blake
17 Bucktown Stomp Johnny Dodds’ Washboard Band
18 Weary City Johnny Dodds’ Washboard Band
19 Bull Fiddle Blues Johnny Dodds’ Washboard Band
20 Blue Washboard Stomp Johnny Dodds’ Washboard Band
21 Heah Me Talkin’ To Ya Johnny Dodds’ Orchestra
22 Too Tight Johnny Dodds’ Orchestra
23 I’m A Mighty Tight Woman Sippie Wallace
24 Indigo Stomp Johnny Dodds Trio
25 Steal Away Paramount Pickers
Notes
New Orleans-born Johnny Dodds was one of great clarinettists of the early jazz era, his powerful, emotional and blues-heavy style setting him apart from some of his lighter, more elegant contemporaries. He did almost all his recording in Chicago, and this great value 50-track collection pulls together recordings from the creative core of his recording career during the 1920s. It features fine examples of his work with King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band and Dixie Syncopators, Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven, as well as Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers. Also included are tracks with early ensembles like the New Orleans Wanderers, the Washboard Wizards and bands that featured long-time associate Natty Dominique, plus various incarnations of his own bands. It’s a fine showcase for his distinctive style and flowing virtuosity, which had a profound influence on subsequent clarinet luminaries like Benny Goodman. It provides an entertaining cross section of the most important era of his recording career, and is an excellent and broadly representative overview of and introduction to his work.
