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King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band with Louis Armstrong - Riverside Blues

from Revolting Music from the Public Domain (1914​-​1928) by Analog Revolution

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King Oliver was born in 1881. Louis Armstrong in 1901. The two met in New Orleans in the mid teens, and when Oliver moved to Chicago, Armstrong took Oliver’s spot in Kid Orey’s band.

By 1922, Louis moved to Chicago to play second Coronet to Oliver’s first Coronet in the Creole Jazz Band. With this lineup, they would record dozens of tracks, and consistently reshape the face of popular music (even going so far as to invent the concept of wa-wah through use of a trumpet mute.) Armstrong and Oliver would work together through 1924, when Armstrong left to join the Fletcher Henderson orchestra, where he played along side Coleman Hawkins.

This period in 1924 was among his most musically fruitful, but we won’t own that until next year. For now, we have Riverside Blues.

Riverside Blues
Originally released in 1923 on Paramount Records

Riverside Blues is a dixieland jazz record from King Oliver and Louis Armstrong (and the rest of the Creole Jazz Band). The song is not, today, considered to be an especially significant one for either musician or for the band as a whole. Very little has been written about it.

I chose it for this compilation specifically because of the dueling nature of Oliver and Armstrong’s performance. You can here them directly playing to and off of one another. Sometimes in unison, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in counterpoint against each other. They are limited by the recording technology of the time, and yet here are the roots of Big Band, of Swing, of Bop.
Any recording from the Creole Jazz Band from 1923 is likely to exhibit most of these same traits, but this one captured my attention, and I expect it will capture yours.

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