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