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  Johnny Dodds
Dodds was in Kid Ory's band in New Orleans from 1912 to 1919.
Johnny and his brother Baby Dodds were an important part of Louis Armstrong's classic Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings for Okeh.
Johnny Dodds by G.E. Lambert, A.S. Barnes, 1961
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  Johnny Dodds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892 August 8, 1940) was a jazz clarinetist, and older brother of drummer Baby Dodds.
Dodds went to Chicago, Illinois, played with Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, whom he first recorded with in 1923.
Dodds was noted for his professionalism and virtuosity as a musician, and his heartfelt heavily blues laden style.
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 Johnny Dodds
John M. Dodds was born in 16th of February, 1892 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
When Jazz was developing in that city Dodds' early experience was with such legendary bands as Eagle and Tuxedo.
Then for a period of some six years, beginning when he was about 19, he worked under the leadership of the famous trombonist, Kid Ory.
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 Johnny Dodds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940) was a jazz clarinetist, and older brother of drummer Baby Dodds.
Dodds went to Chicago, played with Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, whom he first recorded with in 1923.
After break up of Oliver band in 1924, Dodds replaced Alcide Nunez as house clarinetist and bandleader of.
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 Johnny Dodds information - Search.com
Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940) was a jazz clarinetist, and older brother of drummer Baby Dodds.
Dodds went to Chicago, Illinois, played with Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, with which he first recorded in 1923.
Dodds was noted for his professionalism and virtuosity as a musician, and his heartfelt heavily blues laden style.
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 Drummerworld: Warren Baby Dodds
Though Baby Dodds' main body of work took place in the 1920s with Louis Armstrong and other New Orleans groups, he remains one of the most influential drummers who ever lived.
Baby Dodds was one of first great drummers of Jazz and the brother of Johnny Dodds.
Dodds followed Oliver to Chicago and was the drummer in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
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 AllRefer.com - Jelly Roll Morton (Music: Popular And Jazz, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Gulfport, La. He began studying piano as a child and in his youth was a pianist in the colorful Storyville district of New Orleans.
Later he played with Johnny Dodds, Baby Dodds, Kid Ory, Barney Bigard, and other noted jazz musicians, and in the late 1920s made a series of highly praised recordings at the head of the Red Hot Peppers band.
Although Morton is regarded by many as the greatest New Orleans pianist and the first great jazz composer, his egocentricity, moodiness, and quarrelsome disposition led many musicians and critics to disparage him.
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 CD Review of Dr. Michael White & The Blue Clarinet - In a Tribute to Mr. Johnny Dodds on Jazz Crusade @ jazzreview.com
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940) was one of the most important early New Orleans clarinetists.
Johnny Dodds was a great asset to the popularity of Armstrong's Hot 5 and Hot 7 in the Windy City.
He successfully recreates the "spirit and inventiveness" of his mentor in a manner that clearly illustrates why Johnny Dodds is still a prime influence on later clarinetists.
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 Music 074: Baby Dodds by Natalie Hwang
Born in 1897, Baby was the younger brother of clarinetist Johnny Dodds, one of the most original and influential reedmen of those early years.
With Jelly, Dodds was required to play wire brushes and is one of the first jazz drummers to be recorded with this lighter alternative to sticks.
Dodds remains one of the most creative and colourful drummers in the history of traditional jazz and his paralysis from a stroke in the early 50s robbed the jazz world of one of its great innovators.
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 Johnny Dodds - Music Downloads - Online
He did not start on clarinet until he was 17 but caught on fast, being mostly self-taught.
Dodds was with Kid Ory's band during most of 1912-1919, played on riverboats with Fate Marable in 1917, and joined King Oliver in Chicago in 1921.
Although Dodds continued playing in Chicago during the 1930s, part of the time was spent running a cab company.
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 American BigBands - Page 1 "N" Bands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For twenty-five years Johnny was one of the dominant figures in the Hawaiian musical world, as well as a busy and useful member of other phases of civic life.
It was Johnny Noble the Shriner - and their musical director; Johnny Noble the Civic Luncheon Club member; Johnny Noble, the family man, whose life was always deeply influenced by his charming school-teacher wife and his love for his daughter.
Here's a photograph of Jimmie Noone, who along with Johnny Dodds, and Sidney Bechet, are considered by virtually all musicians, as the three top Dixieland clarinetists of the jazz era.
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 DODDS, Johnny : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Worked off and on with Kid Ory c'11--19, briefly with Fate Marable; with King Oliver in Chicago, on the West Coast and back to Chicago '19-- 23: demonstrated classic New Orleans clarinet style on famous Oliver records '23--4.
With Honor‚ Dutrey and Freddie Keppard at Kelly's Stables '24; took over residency there, often with brother Baby Dodds, Keppard returning for brief periods, until the club suddenly closed for violating Prohibition '30.
He helped point jazz away from clich‚s and novelty effects towards beauty; his command of technique did not equal that of Sidney Bechet or Jimmie Noone, but he was a very good ensemble player, and his best solos were inspired and passionate.
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 Additional Reading (from Dodds, Johnny) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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One of the most lyrically expressive of jazz clarinetists, Johnny Dodds was a self-taught musician who played with some of the most important musicians of the 1920s.
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 Johnny Dodds
Johnny worked with most of the major Hot Jazz bands of the era.
Unlike many of his famous contemporiaries, Dodds and his brother stayed in Chicago, and were pretty much forgotten as Jazz moved East to New York in the Thirties.
Dodds continued to play and record in Chicago throughout the Thirties.
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 TodoCine: Recomendaciones en DVD de Septiembre del 2003
En un pub londinense se reúnen los amigos de Jack Dodds, para cumplir su último deseo: arrojar sus cenizas al mar en la ciudad de Margate.
Frankie y Johnny son novios y trabajan como animadores en un barco del Misisipí.
Johnny es un jugador compulsivo y está pasando una racha de mala suerte.
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 Amazon.com: Wild Man Blues: 24 Clarinet Classics: Music: Johnny Dodds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Johnny Dodds was the most prominent and prolific of the great New Orleans clarinetists, a key voice in the music as it moved to Chicago in the early 1920s.
Rooted deeply in the blues, Dodds can even be heard with Blind Blake on the great blues-ragtime guitarist's "South Bound Rag." He can be heard as well in the varied groups that he led on record--usually including his brother, the gifted drummer Baby Dodds, who sometimes plays washboard.
Johnny Dodds is one of those rare musicians whose sound has been heard by millions, and yet few know them by name.
www.amazon.com /Wild-Man-Blues-Clarinet-Classics/dp/B000001HKP   (955 words)

  
 Johnny Dodds Music - Favorite Songs - Lyrics From   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Johnny Dodds was one of the greatest clarinetist...
Johnny and his brother Baby Dodds were an important part of...
Johnny Dodds / Les Génies Du Jazz - I 16 - The Myth Of New Orleans...
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 John M. Dodds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After the Wall Street Crash in the '30s, Johnny was soon in difficulties like so many other musicians, but he continued to play in small groups whenever there was a change.
Johnny Dodds is my favourite clarinetist - the thing - that made me collect nearly all his recordings during the years, 1957 onwards.
That's why we nowadays own 251 recordings where Johnny Dodds is featuring.
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 Johnny Dodds - AOL Music
Johnny Dodds and his Orchestra discography and biography.
Dodds went to Chicago and played with Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, with which he first recorded in 1923.
Download, listen and watch Johnny Dodds music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Johnny Dodds
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 Pam Pameijer's New Jazz Wizards - Remember Johnny Dodds Volume 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Now Pam Pameijer turns his attention to probably the greatest of all New Orleans clarinetists, Johnny Dodds, and once again he has assembled musicians who are idiomatically perfect for the task of re-creating the recordings that Johnny Dodds mad mostly with bands under his leadership.
Of course, the most important player for such a tribute has to be the clarinetist and Mattias Seuffert from Germany not only captures the essence of Johnny Dodds' playing but furnished most of the arrangements, wich are strikingly innovative.
Surely, oneof stomp off's very best and Johnny Dodds would be proud of these guys.
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 BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Johnny Dodds
With a throbbing, bluesy tone, and great expressive feeling in his sound, Dodds was a supreme exponent of early New Orleans clarinet playing, and was a member of some of the finest ensembles of the classic jazz period of the 1920s.
He took up clarinet in his home town of New Orleans in his late teens, and worked with Kid Ory and riverboat bandleader Fate Marable before joining King Oliver in 1919.
He eventually left OIiver to spend some years working with Freddie Keppard at Kelly's Stables, but all the while he recorded proliofically, and his best work is in his discs with Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, and his younger brother, drummer Baby Dodds (1989-1959).
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 Dr. Michael White | In a Tribute to Mr. Johnny Dodds
Selecting soul mate fellow clarinet player Johnny Dodds as the subject for this CD, White replicates tunes Dodds played with either his own group or with one of the many he was a member of during his performing years.
The older brother of drummer Baby Dodds, he was largely self taught although he is purported to have taken some lessons from master New Orleans clarinet teacher, Lorenzo Tio.
The group's rendition of “Loveless Love”, which Dodds put to wax in 1927, is pure traditional jazz.
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 Blue Clarinet Stomp - Johnny Dodds - Song Listings
A French RCA double LP from the late '70s had the complete Johnny Dodds on Victor, 30 selections in all.
A good introductory set to the recordings of the great New Orleans clarinetist (but sure to frustrate veteran collectors and completists), this set features the masterful Dodds with a couple of trios, heading his own sextets, and as a sideman with Jelly Roll Morton ("Wolverine Blues" and "Mr.
Classic New Orleans jazz by arguably the finest jazz clarinetist of the 1920s, this CD is recommended until something better comes along.
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 Jelly Roll Morton
He formed the band the Red Hot Peppers and made a series of classic records for Victor.
The recordings he made in Chicago featured some of the best New Orleans sidemen like Kid Ory, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds, Johnny St. Cyr and Baby Dodds.
Morton relocated to New York in 1928 and continued to record for Victor until 1930.
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Yes indeed, Johnny Dodds is considered by many to be the most important clarinetist of New Orleans Jazz.
A surprise was the smoking swing of the jug band track Carpet Alley Breakdown with two banjos, two jugs, violin, alto sax and Dodds on clarinet.
This is an important CD and a most enjoyable one not just for Johnny Dodds, but for the many other New Orleans musicians heard here who never got their due. 
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 Find in a Library: The solo style of jazz clarinetist Johnny Dodds 1923 - 1938
Find in a Library: The solo style of jazz clarinetist Johnny Dodds 1923 - 1938
The solo style of jazz clarinetist Johnny Dodds 1923 - 1938
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 1926 by Johnny Dodds
Chicago Buzz - Junie C. Cobb, Johnny Dodds
Ape Man - Blythe's Washboard Ragamuffins, Johnny Dodds
Dodds was one of the very finest New Orleans clarinetists, and the only non-Creole among them
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