Jazz Articles about Andrew Oliver

About Andrew Oliver

Album Review

Oliver-Smith Incomparables: Stomp Your Stuff

Read "Stomp Your Stuff" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
August 29, 2026

Many bands play early jazz these days, but few make it sound as if the ink is still wet on the page. The Oliver-Smith Incomparables accomplish exactly that on Stomp Your Stuff, a recording that salutes the musical language of Jelly Roll Morton without ever treating it as a historical artifact. Pianist Andrew Oliver and drummer Hal Smith lead an exceptional ensemble featuring Colin Hancock on cornet, Andy Schumm on clarinet-cornet, T.J. Müller on trombone-cornet-vocal, Jacob Alspach on guitar-banjo, and ...

Album Review

Oliver-Smith Incomparables: Stomp Your Stuff

Read "Stomp Your Stuff" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 28, 2026

Although he was best known as a pianist, the late Jelly Roll Morton was never shy when it came to blowing his own horn. Among Morton's claims was that he had “invented" jazz, an assertion that almost surely stretches the truth but is virtually impossible to disprove. What is known is that Morton was playing a form of jazz as early as 1904 and that he and a later band, the Red Hot Peppers, helped place “hot jazz" on the ...