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American jazz cornet player and bandleader
- Joseph Nathan " King " Oliver (December 19, 1881 – April 8/10, 1938) was an American jazz cornet player and bandleader. He was particularly recognized for his playing style and his pioneering use of mutes in jazz.
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Joseph Nathan "King" Oliver (December 19, 1881 [1] – April 8/10, 1938) was an American jazz cornet player and bandleader. He was particularly recognized for his playing style and his pioneering use of mutes in jazz.
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King Oliver was an American cornetist who was a vital link between the semi-mythical prehistory of jazz and the firmly documented history of jazz proper. He is also remembered for choosing as his protégé the man generally considered to have been the greatest of all New Orleans musicians, Louis.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Became Musical Star in New Orleans
- Started Own Band in Chicago
- Recorded with His Creole Jazz Band
- Split from Armstrong, Ended Recording Career
- Ended Life in Poverty
- Selected Works
- Sources
Oliver played in a number of marching bands and, around 1910, started appearing in the nightclubs of New Orleans’ red-light district, Storyville, the vibrant heart of the city’s musical life. These early years of jazz saw intense competition in the raucous neighborhood’s numerous clubs, cabarets and gambling den. As a performer at the Abadie Cabare...
Oliver arrived in Chicago in early 1918, responding to invitations from two bands, Lawrence Duhe’s Band at the prestigious Dreamland Café, and Bill Johnson’s at the Royal Gardens. In January of 1920 Oliver formed his own band: the initial line-up included pianist Lil Hardin, Louis Armstrong’s future wife. They played at the Dreamland Café every nig...
Oliver was slow to embrace the relatively new industry of recorded music. It offered little financial reward for musicians, and the finished product rarely captured the live energy or improvisational fire of its featured performers, because primitive technology meant each song had to be curtailed. On the bandstand, Oliver was wary of the possibilit...
The Gennett recording sessions helped build the band’s profile, and soon they were recording for rival ‘race records’ label, OKeh, as well as Paramount and Columbia. But internal dissent over Oliver’s paternalistic handling of salaries saw the ensemble splinter. Lil Hardin convinced Armstrong that his mentor was holding him back. In a 1950 intervie...
Touring in the depressed South was not an easy way to make money, and Oliver suffered a number of setbacks, missing gigs whenever his moribund tour vehicles broke down. By 1935 Oliver had lost all his teeth and found it difficult to perform. He kept touring with a third-rate band, many of whom mutinied over low pay, avoiding the big cities where he...
Recordings
(With King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band) “Chimes Blues,”Gennett, 1923. (With King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band) “Dipper Mouth Blues,”Gennett, 1923. (With King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band) “Chattanooga Stomp,”Columbia, 1923. (With King Oliver’s Jazz Band) “Sweet Baby Doll,”OKeh, 1923. (With King Oliver’s Jazz Band) “The Southern Stomps,”Paramount, 1923. (With King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators) “Doctor Jazz,”Vocalion/Brusnwick, 1926. (With King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators) “Snag It,”Vocalion/B...
Books
Allen, Walter C., and Brian A.L. Rust, King Joe Oliver, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1958, pp. 2-3, 6-10, 28-29, 40-42, 63. Bergreen, Laurence, Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life, BroadwayBooks, 1997, pp. 105, 106, 121, 176, 203, 210, 213, 232-234, 261, 388-392. Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 1-2: To 1940, American Council of Learned Societies, 1944-1958. Giddons, Gary, Visions of Jazz: the First Century, Oxford UniversityPress, 1998, pp. 77-83. Gioia, Ted, The History of Jazz, Oxfor...
On-line
“After a life at the top of the jazz world, Joe ‘King’ Oliver lived his last year scraping by in Savannah,” Savannah Now, www.savannahnow.com/features/jazz/ (August 22, 2003). “Joe ‘King’ Oliver,” PBS, www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_oliverJoe_king.htm (August 22, 2003). “Joe Oliver,” Red Hot Jazz, www.redhotjazz.com/kingo.html (August 22, 2003). “Joseph Oliver,” Biography Resource Center, www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC (August 22, 2003). “King Oliver,” All Music Guide, www.allmusic.com/(...
Jun 1, 2018 · One of the most important of the New Orleans jazz pioneers, cornetist Joe “King” Oliver is perhaps best remembered today for leading the best jazz band of 1923 and for his connection with Louis Armstrong. However, there was much more to the King Oliver story than that.
Apr 5, 2023 · Some readers might be familiar with the 1950 Record Changer article “Joe Oliver is Still King,” “written” by Armstrong and later published in the 1999 anthology Louis Armstrong In His Own Words.
Aug 3, 2023 · Joe “King” Oliver was one of the New Orleans trumpet and cornet kings who took the instrument to a whole new level. His skills as a musician, composer, and bandleader altered the course of jazz and showcased the genre’s excellence.
Joe “King” Oliver (December 19, 1885 to April 8, 1938), was a jazz musician and bandleader. Joe “King” Oliver was a Louisiana native who moved to New Orleans as a teenager. Oliver was a cornet player in New Orleans’ brass bands, dance bands, and in Storyville’s red-light district.
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