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King Oliver

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Noun1.King Oliver - United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938)
Joseph Oliver, Oliver
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He journeys back to the earliest jazz repertoire, evoking the sounds of King Oliver, George Lewis and Ken Colyer (just to mention three players whose prime times were in different decades).
Reed all about it - Maddocks and Huxley in town; Jazz by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
For indignant jazz fans reading Kitty Empire's description, the term "trad" has a specific meaning: revivalist bands reproducing the early-20th-century proto-jazz of King Oliver, Louis Armstrong and their New Orleans contemporaries.
Why we should be clear about what trad jazz means by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Brothers examines the vernacular music that Armstrong was exposed to there, describes his religious beliefs and exposure to church music, his arrest, how he learned to play the cornet, his mentor King Oliver, the music of Buddy Bolden, Creole culture, Armstrong's songwriting, and provides general explanations of work songs, blues, jazz, parade and funeral music, and ragtime, as well as an analysis of masculinity in jazz.
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans by Reference & Research Book News
 
 
 
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