Baby Dodds
Arguably the first important jazz drummer, Baby Dodds was one of the earliest to vary his patterns during a performance; a strong example of his adventurous style can be heard on a trio performance (with Jelly Roll Morton and Baby's brother Johnny) of "Wolverine Blues" in 1927. A major influence on Gene Krupa, Dodds worked in New Orleans with Willie Hightower, Bunk Johnson, Oscar Celestin, and others and played with Fate Marable's riverboat band in 1918. He joined King Oliver in San Francisco in 1922 and settled in Chicago the following year. In addition to recording with Oliver's classic Creole Jazz Band, Dodds was an important part of sessions led by Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven. He remained in Chicago for decades, performing and recording regularly with his brother, Johnny Dodds, until the clarinetist's death in 1940. During the traditional jazz revival, Baby played with Jimmie Noone, Sidney Bechet, Bunk Johnson, and Art Hodes, appeared on the This Is Jazz radio broadcasts of 1947, and visited Europe with Mezz Mezzrow the following year. During 1945-1946, he recorded the first unaccompanied drum solos. Despite ill health in the 1950s, Baby Dodds kept playing until two years before his death; his memoirs are well worth reading.
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Footnotes to Jazz, Vol. 1: Baby Dodds Talking and Drum Solos
Dixieland - Released by Folkways Records on 1 jan. 1951
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BECHET, Sidney: Shake It And Break It (1938-1941)
Sidney Bechet, Baby Dodds, Sidney Bechet Orchestra, Two Fishmongers, Earl Hines
Traditionele jazz en dixieland - Released by Naxos on 30 jun. 2003
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Talking and Drum Solos
Jazz - Released by SINETONE AMR on 9 jun. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo