Riverside Blues -- King Oliver 1923

Riverside Blues -- King Oliver 1923

It is generally accepted among jazz connoiseurs that Joe "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band was the finest Black jazz band ever to make public appearances. With relatively few changes in personnel, it functioned brilliantly and very succesfully at the Royal Gardens in Chicago for about 6 years between 1918 and 1934. All their recordings were made in 1923.
We listen here to the "Riverside Blues" recorded on October 26, 1923 on the Okeh label and this of course is a collecors item
Next to King Oliver on cornet, we also hear Louis Armstrong cornet, Johnny Dodds clarinet, Honore Dutray trombone, Lil Hardin piano, Johnny St. Cyr banjo and Baby Dodds drums.

It is generally accepted among jazz connoiseurs that Joe "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band was the finest Negro jazz band ever to make public appearances. With relatively few changes in personnel, it functioned brilliantly and very succesfully at the Royal Gardens in Chicago for about 6 years between 1918 and 1934. All their recordings were made in 1923.
We listen here to the "Riverside Blues" recorded on October 26, 1923 on the Okeh label and this of course is a collecors item
Next to King Oliver on cornet, we also hear Louis Armstrong cornet, Johnny Dodds clarinet, Honore Dutray trombone, Lil Hardin piano, Johnny St. Cyr banjo and Baby Dodds drums.
I have enjoyed, listened and learned very much from this recording already . I have played the tune in many different bands since my early days in jazz in the fifties until now and I hope in this way to bring it to a large number of old and hopefully new fans!

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Music

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• jazz
• classic
• oliver
• armstrong

[24Monch]

great! for all you suckers who say that internet is killing the discographic industry!

[TorontoEd7]

I like this old style so much that i went and bought a cd of King Oliver.

[EmiKimura88]

Epic!

[bhbpinneberg]

@bhbpinneberg - Sorry, it was the 14000-series of Columbia that was dedicated to the race!

[bhbpinneberg]

@Squarerig - yes, you're right and that is the difference between blacks and whites. Whites can't play neither jazz nor blues if we understand the rules!

[bhbpinneberg]

Hear Ida Cox's COFFIN BLUES and you'll change your mind

[bhbpinneberg]

Hello, it was normal use to name a black person a 'nigger', even black people named another one this way above all when being angry! Read black authors like Hughes or Richard Wright. By the way, the original 78rpm-records often had 'race' on the sunken label as they were recorded for black customers and issued in a special 'race-series'. That were OKeh's 8000-series, Victor's V-38000-series, Vocalion's 1000-series, Paramount's 12000-series and Columbia's 12000-series. All for the black market.

[bhbpinneberg]

@doddling - Hello, 1915?? you're on the wrong track! Oliver's 1st recordings were made in April, 1923 and the band couldn't use a mike as this one was only in regular use since (spring) 1926. The Olivers were recorded acoustically! That means, they played into a horn. The only one with a problem in recording was Bill Johnson and his bass, that could NOT be recorded as for the technical problems. He thus changed to the banjo (see Oliver-pics)

[ThePaloheimo]

What is the difference between Jazz between 1923-25 and 1915-1922?

[5h4wnj0hns0n110]

i love blues and such.... but i dont like this :/

[JPats100]

I dont see whats so great about this oliver song. I like "Tears" and "Mabel's Dream ( the fast take)" a lot better,

[Roboviewer]

Interesting that this sounds like a different take than

the one on my cd. All the solos are generally the same

but slightly different, and the trumpet can be heard more

clearly at the end here.