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Culture Clubs: A History of the U.S. Jazz Clubs, Part I: New Orleans and Chicago
by Karl Ackermann
Marching bands, ragtime music, and the blues, were all well-entrenched and spreading up the Mississippi River Valley from New Orleans at the beginning of the twentieth century. Dixieland was the popular music staple and with the all-white Original Dixieland Jass Band recording the first jazz side, “Livery Stable Blues," in 1917, an original musical language was ...
Less Is More? Really?
by Mat Marucci
There have been popular views by certain so-called experts that seem to have been accepted as dogma, the term “less is more" being one of them. However, as in any subject from sports to politics to science to religion, every pundit has an equal who has a contrary opinion. I, for one, am bothered by some ...
A provocative pair of releases from drummer Andrew Drury: Content Provider and The Drum
by Hrayr Attarian
There is no doubt that Andrew Drury is one of most innovative and bold drummers on the modern music scene. Over a career spanning two decades he has pushed the boundaries of his kit and has also emerged as an adventurous improviser and composer. With two provocative releases on Soup and Sound label Drury exhibits the ...
Eccentric Genius Of Jelly Roll Morton This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Vernel Bagneris joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for Wild Man Blues, a musical biography based on stories from the personal diaries of Jelly Roll Morton, compiled by the late William Russell, the first curator of the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University in New Orleans, and published in the book ...
The Eccentric Genius of Jelly Roll Morton This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actor Vernel Bagneris joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for “Wild Man Blues," a musical biography based on personal diaries of Jelly Roll Morton. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on- demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. One ...
Talking and Drum Solos (1946)
By Baby Dodds
Label: Atavistic Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Baby Dodds: 1. Spooky Drums No. 1 2. Drums in the Twenties 3. Shimmy Beat/Press
Roll Demonstration 4. Careless Love Blues 5. Rudiments 6. Maryland 7. Spooky Drums
No. 2 8. Tom Tom Workout
The Laneville-Johnson Union Brass Band: 9. Precious Lord Hold My Hand 10. Take
Rocks & Gravel To Build A Solid Road 11. Wild About My Daddy 12. Sun Gonna Shine In
My Back Door Someday 13. I'm Going On 14. O Lord Let Thy Will Be Done 15.
Conversation 16. My Baby Gone and She Won't Be Back No More 17. Farewell You Well
Daddy, It's Your Time Now
The Lapsey Band: 18. Sing On 19. Dixie 20. Going Up The Country, Don't You Want To
Go 21. I Shall Not Be Moved 22. The Ship Is Over The Ocean 23. Mama Don't You Tear
My Clothes 24. Nearer My God To Thee 25. Like My God 26. I'm All Right Now Since I've
Been Converted 27. Just Over In The Gloryland 28. When I Lay My Burden Down
Baby Dodds: Talking and Drum Solos (1946)
by Colin Fleming
"Spooky Drums No. 1," so-titled for the relative unfamiliarity of a drummer finding a studio all to himself, is as good an introduction to this man's art as any, and I suggest you hear it. The first in line, chronologically, of the great jazz drummers, Baby Dodds, who played and recorded with King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, ...
Talking and Drum Solos
By Baby Dodds
Label: Atavistic Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Spooky Drums No. 1
2. Drums in the Twenties
3. Shimmy Beat/Press Roll Demonstration
4. Careless Love (Handy/Koenig/Williams)
5. Rudiments
6. Maryland
7. Spooky Drums No. 2
8. Tom Tom Workout
9. Precious Lord Hold My Hand
10. Take Rocks & Gravel to Build a Solid Road
11. Wild About My Daddy
12. Sun Gonna Shine in My Back Door Someday
13. I'm Going On
14. O Lord Let Thy Will Be Done
15. Conversation
16. My Baby Gone and She Won't Be Back No More
17. Fare You Well Daddy, It's Your Time Now
18. Sing On
19. Dixie
20. Going Up the Country, Don't You Want to Go
21. I Shall Moved
22. The Ship Is Over the Ocean
23. Mama Don't You Tear My Clothes
24. Nearer My Lord to Thee
25. Like My Lord
26. I'm All Right Now Since I've Been...
27. Just Over in the Gloryland
28. When I Lay My Burden Down
Talking And Drum Solos (1946) / Country Brass Bands (1954)
By Baby Dodds
Label: NAB Records
Released: 2003
Baby Dodds: Talking and Drum Solos
by AAJ Staff
Talking and Drum Solos represents yet another step back into jazz history for Atavistic's Unheard Music Series, which made a point of mostly documenting avant jazz until this year's reissue of George Gruntz's straight-ahead Mental Cruelty soundtrack from 1960. And it's a big leap indeed. Baby Dodds (1898-1959) is regarded as one of the most influential ...
