It's a comprehensive showcase for one of the genre's most important personalities.

Joe 'King' Oliver was an American cornetist and trumpeter and bandleader, as well as an influential composer, who was one of the true pioneers of early jazz during the 1920s and into the '30s - Louis Armstrong, for whom he was a mentor, said of him 'if it had not been for Joe Oliver, jazz would not be what it is today'. Born in Louisiana in the 1880s, he learnt his trade in New Orleans marching bands and during WWI moved to Chicago, which became the primary centre of recorded jazz. This 126-track 5-CD collection comprises a significant proportion of his career recordings leading his own bands or as a member of other leaders' bands and accompanying singers where he made an important contribution. It includes some of the most significant and influential recordings made during this era, through to the end of his active recording career in 1931 occasioned by dental and mouth problems that affected his ability to play. There are recordings on the Gennett, Okeh, Columbia, Paramount, Autograph, Vocalion, Brunswick, QRS and Victor labels, featuring recordings with his Creole Jazz Band, Dixie Syncopators, Savannah Syncopators, his Jazz Band and his Orchestra. It also includes recordings with Butterbeans & Susie, Irene Scruggs, Sippi Wallace, Ida Cox, Victoria Spivey, Katherine Henderson, Irene Gibson and Texas Alexander, and with the Clarence Williams Novelty Four, with performances alongside Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, Lil Armstrong, Jimmy Noone, Clarence Williams, Barney Bigard and many other top names. It's a comprehensive showcase for one of the genre's most important personalities.

Track Listing

• Dipper Mouth Blues
• Weatherbird Rag
• Just Gone
• Canal Street Blues
• I'm Going Away To Wear You Off My Mind
• Mandy Lee Blues
• Chimes Blues
• Froggie Moore
• Snake Rag
• Sweet Lovin' Man
• Sobbin' Blues
• Dipper Mouth Blues
• Where Did You Stay Last Night
• High Society Rag
• Snake Rag
• Jazzin' Babies Blues
• Krooked Blues
• Alligator Hop
• Zulu's Ball
• Workingman's Blues
• Chattanooga Stomp
• New Orleans Stomp
• Camp Meeting Blues
• London Cafe Blues (A New Orleans Stomp)
• Riverside Blues
• Mabel's Dream
• Southern Stomps

• Buddy's Habit
• Tears
• Room Rent Blues
• I Ain't Gonna Tell Nobody
• Mabel's Dream
• Sweet Baby Doll
• Working Man Blues
• Riverside Blues
• Kiss Me Sweet
• I Got Your Bath Water On
• King Porter Stomp
• Tom Cat Blues
• Morning Dove Blues
• Every Dog Has His Day
• Devil Dance Blues
• Rambling Blues
• Coffin Blues
• Too Bad
• Snag It
• Jackass Blues
• Deep Henderson
• Sorrow Valley Blues
• Home Town Blues
• Sugarfoot Stomp
• Wa Wa Wa

• New Wang Wang Blues
• Tack Annie
• Snag It
• Dead Man Blues
• Someday Sweetheart
• Willie The Weeper
• Black Snake Blues
• Doctor Jazz
• Showboat Shuffle
• Every Tub
• Sobbin' Blues
• Farewell Blues
• Tin Roof Blues
• West End Blues
• Sweet Emmaline
• Lazy Mama
• Speakeasy Blues
• Aunt Hagar's Blues
• Four Or Five Times
• Got Everything
• I'm Watching The Clock
• Slow And Steady
• My Handy Man
• Organ Grinder Blues
• I'm Busy And You Can't Come In

• Lonesome Lovesick Blues
• Have You Ever Felt That Way
• Do It Baby
• If You Like Me
• Mushy Love
• Dont Turn Your Back On Me
• Hole In The Wall
• Death Sting Me Blues
• Mistreating Man Blues
• Kitchen Man Blues
• Mean Tight Mama
• Tell Me Woman Blues
• In The Bottle Blues
• What Ya Want Me To Do
• West End Blues
• Call Of The Freaks
• The Trumpet's Prayer
• Can I Tell You?
• My Good Man Sam
• What You Want Me To Do?
• Too Late
• I Want You Just For Myself
• Frankie And Johnny
• You're Just My Type
• I Must Have It

• Sweet Like This
• Everybody Does It In Hawaii
• Boogie Woogie
• Mule Face Blues
• Rhythm Club Stomp (Curwiship Glide)
• Edna
• Freakish Light Blues
• I've Got That Thing
• St. James Infirmary
• When You're Smiling
• Olga
• Struggle Buggy
• Don't You Think I Love You?
• Stingaree Blues
• Shake It And Break It
• You Were Only Passing Time With Me
• What's The Use Of Living Without Love?
• I'm Lonesome, Sweetheart
• I Can't Stop Loving You
• Nelson Stomp
• New Orleans Shout
• Stop Crying
• I'm Crazy Bout My Baby
• Sugar Blues

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 360 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 11/29/24

UPC: 824046752026