CD Charts
Welcome to The CD Charts, here you will find all the latest and top selling Music cds available to buy online. You can search and locate the best selling Music cd's and have them delivered to the door. We have a large selection of Music all with reviews.
Back to Home Page > Go back a page
Music : King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band 1923-1924
See Larger Image |
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band 1923-1924 by: Joe 'King' Oliver List Price: £16.99 CD-Charts Price: £12.69 You Save: £4.30 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
|
Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 6089179007120 Label: Retrieval Manufacturer: Retrieval Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Retrieval Release Date: June 01, 2006 Studio: Retrieval Sales Rank: 38678 Disc 1:
Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The First Great Jazz RecordsHaving 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 last. The era of the great soloists was about to dawn and, although - for example - Armstrong, Hawkins, Bechet, etc created magnificent music, the very fact of their individual creativity meant the end of the truly integrated ensemble until the early ... Read More: Rating: - This is how it startedThere 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 and "primitive" jazz with its ensemble playing. Only Hot Five and Hot Seven are better, even if dominated by Armstrong's power. Rating:  - The authentic jazz sound of New OrleansThis 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 of King Oliver cornet solos accompanied by the "great" Jelly Roll Morton on piano. The initial 8 tracks are revered by jazz enthusiasts and are amongst the first jazz recordings made by a Negro band. This was in Richmond, Indiana, with the ... Read More: |
|