[Dixielandjazz] Archeophone King Oliver set

[brian at radiojazz.co.uk]

 A listmember posed the question - that if the Archeophone recordings of the
King Oliver Creole Jazz Band are so good can it be taken that they are the
archetypal benchmark recordings of New Orleans jazz at that time?
The answer is yes and no. Al Rose is on record writing that he heard the
band playing in New Orleans and that when it moved to Chicago it played much
the same style of music. Thus - what you hear on the Archeophones is New
Orleans Jazz of the period 1918 - 1923. But - there were other - both black
and white - bands in New Orleans at that time playing other variations of
the city's style. The Oliver style is just one - there are others. Hear for
example the New Orleans Owls, Monk Hazel and the Bienville Roof Orchestra,
Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight, the Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra, Jones -
Collins Astoria Hot Eight and all of the bands on the Timeless label CD (ref
CBS1-014 Jazz) New Orleans in the 20's which includes recordings by Johnny
Bayersdorffer, Tom Brown and Fate Marable's Society Syncopators.
One factor the Archeophones point up is that bands like Cell Block 7, the
late Lu Watters and in Britain the Big Bear Stompers do - at times - get
very near the spirit and feel of the Oliver band. The spirit lives on.
Brian Harvey
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