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 Johnny Dodds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dodds went to Chicago, Illinois, played with Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, whom he first recorded with in 1923.
After break up of Oliver band in 1924, Dodds replaced Alcide Nunez as house clarinetist and bandleader of Kelly's Stables.
Played with bands of Frankie Duson, Kid Ory, and Joe "King" Oliver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Dodds   (166 words)

  
 Johnny Dodds
Dodds was in Kid Ory's band in New Orleans from 1912 to 1919.
He was a master of the New Orleans' ensemble style of collective improvisation.
He recorded several records under his own name in the Twenties, often with Natty Dominique on trumpet, and worked regularly at Kelly's Stables from 1924 to 1930.
http://www.redhotjazz.com/jdodds.html   (269 words)

  
 Additional Reading (from Dodds, Johnny) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
One of the most lyrically expressive of jazz clarinetists, Johnny Dodds was a self-taught musician who played with some of the most important musicians of the 1920s.
American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash sparked a renewal of interest in country music with his simple, yet powerful songs.
In 1966 his concert in Liverpool, England, broke an attendance record set by a popular local band, the Beatles.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=67   (684 words)

  
 Music 074: Baby Dodds by Natalie Hwang
Baby Dodds was playing in parades as early as the 1910s, often with Bunk Johnson as well as with Frankie Dusen's Eagle Band.
With the revival of interest in early New Orleans jazz that was budding in 1940, Baby recorded for Decca as part of a New Orleans Album.
By 1927, Baby was playing in brother Johnny's Band and can be heard with a full drum kit on recordings made by Johnny Dodds and His Black Bottom Stompers.
http://www.duke.edu/~nhh/babybio.htm   (780 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Music: Wild Man Blues: 24 Clarinet Classics
Johnny Dodds was the most prominent and prolific of the great New Orleans clarinetists, a key voice in the music as it moved to Chicago in the early 1920s.
Rooted deeply in the blues, Dodds can even be heard with Blind Blake on the great blues-ragtime guitarist's "South Bound Rag." He can be heard as well in the varied groups that he led on record--usually including his brother, the gifted drummer Baby Dodds, who sometimes plays washboard.
This is a very good compilation of Johnny Dodds' music.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001HKP?v=glance   (757 words)

  
 John M. Dodds
By 1920 Johnny Dodds left New Orleans for good joining King Oliver's Jazz Band.
That's why we nowadays own 245 recordings where Johnny Dodds is featuring.
* You can also take a look on a chronological list of all Dodds' recordings.
http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/renko/dodds.htm   (367 words)

  
 CD Review of Dr. Michael White & The Blue Clarinet - In a Tribute to Mr. Johnny Dodds on Jazz Crusade @ jazzreview.com
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940) was one of the most important early New Orleans clarinetists.
Michael White is a professor of Afro-American and Spanish music at Xavier University.
Michael White makes no attempt, on this CD, to faithfully imitate the sound and style of Dodds.
http://www.jazzreview.com/cdreview.cfm?ID=958   (473 words)

  
 American BigBands - Page 1 "N" Bands
For twenty-five years Johnny was one of the dominant figures in the Hawaiian musical world, as well as a busy and useful member of other phases of civic life.
Johnny Thompson was the arranger and Linda Keene, the girl vocalist.
On the strength of these many songs Johnny was honored with a membership in the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the first songwriter admitted from Hawaii.
http://www.nfo.net/usa/n1.html   (5920 words)

  
 Johnny Dodds MP3 Downloads - Johnny Dodds Music Downloads - Johnny Dodds Music Videos
Classic New Orleans jazz by arguably the finest jazz clarinetist of the 1920s, this CD is recommended until something better comes along.
A good introductory set to the recordings of the great New Orleans clarinetist (but sure to frustrate veteran collectors and completists), this set features the masterful Dodds with a couple of trios, heading his own sextets, and as a sideman with Jelly Roll Morton ("Wolverine Blues" and "Mr.
This single CD just has 21 of the performances, leaving out most alternates and a few other numbers.
http://www.mp3.com/albums/105336/summary.html   (241 words)

  
 Johnny Dodds, Recordings
ST CYR; guitar, BRIGGS; tuba, B. DODDS; drms
J. DODDS; cl, BLYTHE; p, JUNIE COBB; guitar,
http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/renko/jdoddsx.htm   (875 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Jelly Roll Morton (Music: Popular And Jazz, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Later he played with Johnny Dodds, Baby Dodds, Kid Ory, Barney Bigard, and other noted jazz musicians, and in the late 1920s made a series of highly praised recordings at the head of the Red Hot Peppers band.
Gulfport, La. He began studying piano as a child and in his youth was a pianist in the colorful Storyville district of New Orleans.
Although Morton is regarded by many as the greatest New Orleans pianist and the first great jazz composer, his egocentricity, moodiness, and quarrelsome disposition led many musicians and critics to disparage him.
http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/M/Mortn-JR.html   (276 words)

  
 Pam Pameijer's New Jazz Wizards - Remember Johnny Dodds Volume 1
Now Pam Pameijer turns his attention to probably the greatest of all New Orleans clarinetists, Johnny Dodds, and once again he has assembled musicians who are idiomatically perfect for the task of re-creating the recordings that Johnny Dodds mad mostly with bands under his leadership.
Cornetist Jon-Erik Kellso brilliantly fills the roles of Natty Dominique or George Mitchell, Jim Snyder, who has played on each of the seven New Jazz Wizards albums plays trombone in his customary earthy style.
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http://www.stompoffrecords.com/albums1300/1382.html   (317 words)

  
 Dr. Michael White In a Tribute to Mr. Johnny Dodds
The older brother of drummer Baby Dodds, he was largely self taught although he is purported to have taken some lessons from master New Orleans clarinet teacher, Lorenzo Tio.
In addition to Thatcher, Emil Mark's piano and Colin Bray's bass are synchronized with White's interpretation of the music Dodds wrote and played.
The solemn trumpet of Norman Thatcher, both in solo and in unison with White's soulful clarinet, makes this cut one of the highlights of the album.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=6961   (386 words)

  
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Yes indeed, Johnny Dodds is considered by many to be the most important clarinetist of New Orleans Jazz.
This is an important CD and a most enjoyable one not just for Johnny Dodds, but for the many other New Orleans musicians heard here who never got their due. 
A surprise was the smoking swing of the jug band track Carpet Alley Breakdown with two banjos, two jugs, violin, alto sax and Dodds on clarinet.
http://www.espressojazz.net/JazzViews/JohnnyDodds   (325 words)

  
 Sweet Soul Music And Johnny Dodds - Paramount Recordings Vol. 1
Acclaimed pop culture critic Peter Guralnick chronicles the rise and fall of Stax Records, the Memphis label that was home to such legends as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Booker T., and Al Green.
Sweet Soul Music And Johnny Dodds - Paramount Recordings Vol.
Track Listing: No track list available We regret that we cannot provide refunds for returned CDs.
http://www.debrakeslerlaw.com/soul.htm   (99 words)

  
 South Side Chicago Jazz by Johnny Dodds
Most of the music on this CD reissue is quite wonderful but unfortunately it has been reissued domestically as a sampler rather than giving listeners a complete look at clarinetist Johnny Dodds' MCA-owned recordings
Have Mercy - Jimmy Blythe's Owls, Johnny Dodds
Hot Stuff - Jimmy Blythe's Owls, Johnny Dodds
http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/album/album.cgi?ALBUMID=963235   (228 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Johnny Dodds
With a throbbing, bluesy tone, and great expressive feeling in his sound, Dodds was a supreme exponent of early New Orleans clarinet playing, and was a member of some of the finest ensembles of the classic jazz period of the 1920s.
He took up clarinet in his home town of New Orleans in his late teens, and worked with Kid Ory and riverboat bandleader Fate Marable before joining King Oliver in 1919.
He eventually left OIiver to spend some years working with Freddie Keppard at Kelly's Stables, but all the while he recorded proliofically, and his best work is in his discs with Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, and his younger brother, drummer Baby Dodds (1989-1959).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/profiles/johnny_dodds.shtml   (191 words)

  
 JR.com: Johnny Dodds - Great Original Performances (1923-1929) in Music: Clarinet:
1 New Orleans Stomp 1926-1927 Johnny Dodds (1923-1929) Complete Paramount Recordings Vol.
JR.com: Johnny Dodds - Great Original Performances (1923-1929) in Music: Clarinet:
http://jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product_Id=3842009&...   (284 words)

  
 Louisiana Music Factory - Paramount Recordings by Johnny Dodds
Louisiana Music Factory - Paramount Recordings by Johnny Dodds
Jimmy Blythe - piano,br> Blind Blake - guitar
http://www.louisianamusicfactory.com/showoneprod.asp?ProductID=1016   (17 words)

  
 DODDS, Johnny : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music
DODDS, Johnny : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music
Worked off and on with Kid Ory c'11--19, briefly with Fate Marable; with King Oliver in Chicago, on the West Coast and back to Chicago '19-- 23: demonstrated classic New Orleans clarinet style on famous Oliver records '23--4.
Led own small bands Chicago through '30s; only visit to NYC for record session Jan. '38; heart attack '39, teeth trouble; with new teeth played in Baby's quartet until March '40.
http://www.musicweb-international.com/encyclopaedia/d/D113.HTM   (222 words)

  
 JR.com: Johnny Dodds - Johnny Dodds (1923-1929) in Music: Clarinet:
JR.com: Johnny Dodds - Johnny Dodds (1923-1929) in Music: Clarinet:
Down Beat (4/93, p.42) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "...clarinetist Johnny Dodds was swinging with great relaxation....Dodds' fearsome rhythmic drive confirms the old truth: if you can't swing alone, you never will..."
http://jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product_Id=3914536&...   (295 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Alcide Nunez Article
In 1922 he returned to Chicago to lead the house band at Kelly's Stables, one of the city's top nightclubs.
After Bert Kelly replaced him with Johnny Dodds, Nunez returned with his family to New Orleans, where he played with various bands in addition to his day job with the police department until his death.
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http://www.ipedia.com/alcide_nunez.html   (303 words)

  
 Johnny Dodds and his Orchestra
Here are two sets of Johnny Dodds Orchestra recordings.
The first Sweet Loraine and Little Isabel are from 1929, while Gravier Street Blues and Red Onion Blues are Johnny Dodds' last recordings made less than two months before his death in 1940.
http://www.redhotjazz.com/jdo.html   (42 words)

  
 Find in a Library: The solo style of jazz clarinetist Johnny Dodds 1923 - 1938
The solo style of jazz clarinetist Johnny Dodds 1923 - 1938
Find in a Library: The solo style of jazz clarinetist Johnny Dodds 1923 - 1938
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http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/79e0d1f50cc9350ba19afeb4da09e526.html   (71 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Johnny Dodds
Dodds, Johnny (1892–1940), American jazz clarinetist, generally ranked among the top New Orleans players.
Search for books about your topic, "Johnny Dodds"
Appleseed, Johnny, real name John Chapman (1774?-1845), American pioneer, born in Leominster, Massachusetts.
http://encarta.msn.com/Johnny_Dodds.html   (104 words)

  
 1940 Article, 1940 Information
August 8 - Johnny Dodds, jazz musician (b.
October 10 - Berton Churchill, pioneer Hollywood actor
http://www.anoca.org/world/war/1940.html   (1872 words)

  
 Louisiana Music Factory - Blue Clarinet Stomp - Complete Sessions 1928-1929 by Johnny Dodds
Louisiana Music Factory - Blue Clarinet Stomp - Complete Sessions 1928-1929 by Johnny Dodds
As above but Lil Armstrong - piano replaces Alexander and Baby Dodds plays drums.
http://www.louisianamusicfactory.com/showoneprod.asp?ProductID=3381   (28 words)

  
 Johnny Dodds 1927 [Classics]
Johnny Dodds with Freddie Keppard, Eddie Ellis, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Tiny Parham, Jimmy Bertrand, Jasper Taylor, Jimmy Blythe, Baby Dodds, Earl Hines, Natty Dominique and others
http://www.jazzscript.co.uk/CDs/dodds27cl.htm   (131 words)

  
 Baseball Think Factory Johnny Dodds (...Borchard!)
Baseball Think Factory > Member List > Johnny Dodds (...Borchard!)
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/member/3474   (27 words)

  
 Johnny Dodds 1928-1940 [Classics]
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Charlie Shavers, Natty Dominique, Honore Dutrey, Lil Armstrong, Baby Dodds, John Kirby, Herb Morand, Sippie Wallace and others
http://www.jazzscript.co.uk/CDs/dodds28cl.htm   (106 words)

  
 Hexapedia - August 8
1927 - Johnny Temple, Major League Baseball second baseman (d.
http://www.hexafind.com/encyclopedia/August_8   (727 words)

  
 1940 - encyclopedia article about 1940.
August 8 - Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinettist (b.
August 18 - Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (b.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/1940   (3974 words)

  
 With Louis Armstrong 1923 by King Oliver
Sweet Baby Doll - Honoré Dutrey, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Reverend Charlie Jackson
Sweet Lovin' Man - Lilian Hardin, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Arthur "Bud" Scott
Mabel's Dream - Honoré Dutrey, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Reverend Charlie Jackson
http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/album/album.cgi?ALBUMID=539239   (333 words)

  
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 Jimmy Bertrand / Johnny Dodds -- April 21, 1927
IF YOU WANNA BE MY SUGAR PAPA (You Gotta Be Sweet to Me)
Jimmy Bertrand / Johnny Dodds -- April 21, 1927
http://www.satchography.com/sessions2/s270421.html   (31 words)

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