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| | Baby Dodds | Talking and Drum Solos (1946) |
 | | The first in line, chronologically, of the great jazz drummers, Baby Dodds, who played and recorded with King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton, is perhaps the most poorly served of all early jazz players by the primitive recording techniques of the twenties. |
| | On the recordings that constitute what there exists on record of Dodds in his prime, his drums are often difficult to discern, and harder to follow, a significant historical loss only slightly remedied with the enhancement of those 78s on CD. |
| | The excellent companion disc, Baby Dodds, on the American Music label, features the drummer a few years later, a little gruffer, expounding more at length, on ”Tiger Rag,” marching bands, and his traps, but the music itself is intercut from early records—a device that Talking and Drum Solos resorts to for only two examples. |
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