Disc: 1
1. Just Gone
2. Canal Street Blues
3. Mandy Lee Blues
4. I'm going away to wear you off my mind
5. Chimes Blues
6. Weather Bird Rag
7. Dipper Mouth Blues
8. Froggie Moore
9. Snake Rag
10. Snake Rag
11. Sweet Lovin' Man
12. High Society Rag
13. Sobbin' Blues
14. Where did you go last night?
15. Dipper Mouth Blues
16. Jazzin Babies Blues
17. Alligator Hop
18. Zulu's Ball
19. Working man Blues
20. Krooked Blues

Disc: 2
1. Chattanooga Stomp
2. London Cafe Blues
3. Camp Meeting Blues
4. New Orleans Stomp
5. Buddy's Habits
6. Tears
7. I ain't Gonna Tell Nobody
8. Room Rent Blues
9. Riverside Blues
10. Sweet Baby Doll
11. Workin' Man Blues
12. Mabel's Dream
13. Mabel's Dream
14. Mabel's Dream
15. The Southern Stomps
16. The Southern Stomps
17. Riverside Blues
18. Kiss Me Sweet
19. Construction Gang
20. King Porter Stomp
21. Tom Cat

Musicians:
Baby Dodds – drums
Honore Dutrey – trombone
Bill Johnson – bass
Louis Armstrong - second cornet
Johnny Dodds – clarinet
Lil Hardin-Armstrong – piano
King Oliver - cornet

The music on this 1997 two-CD import set has been reissued many times, but this is the most complete version yet. Cornetist King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in 1923 was not only the finest jazz group on record, but the most exciting unit up to that point in time. Although it featured some short solos from the octet (particularly Oliver, 22-year old cornetist Louis Armstrong, trombonist Honore Dutrey, and the great clarinetist Johnny Dodds), the emphasis was on the ensembles. All 37 of the band's recordings are on this two-fer (including such classics as the two versions of "Dippermouth Blues," "Froggie Moore," the two renditions of "Snake Rag," "High Society," "Sobbin' Blues," "Chattanooga Stomp," "Buddy's Habits," and three versions of "Mabel's Dream"). In addition, Oliver is heard in 1924 backing the vaudeville team of Butterbeans & Susie and taking two duets with Jelly Roll Morton (including "King Porter Stomp"). This classic New Orleans music is essential for any comprehensive jazz collection. ---Scott Yanow, Rovi

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01. Just Gone (Oliver - Johnson)
02. Canal Street Blues (Oliver-Armstrong)
03. Mandy Lee Blues (Bloom - Melrose)
04. I'm Going Away To Wear You Off My Mind (Smith)
05. Chimes Blues (Oliver)
06. Weather Bird Rag (Armstrong)
07. Dippermouth Blues (Oliver-Armstrong)
08. Froggie Moore (Spike - Spike- Morton)
09. Snake Rag (Oliver - Piron)
10. Snake Rag (Oliver - Piron)
11. Sweet Lovin' Man (Melrose - Hardin)
12. High Society Rag (Steele)
13. Sobbin' Blues (Kassell - Berton)
14. Where Did You Stay Last Night? (Armstrong- Hardin)
15. Dippermouth Blues (Oliver-Armstrong)
16. Jazzin' Babies' Blues (Jones)
17. Alligator Hop (Oliver - Piron)
18. Zulu's Ball (Oliver - Robinson)
19. Workingman Blues (Oliver - Hardin)
20. Krooked Blues (Spike-Spike-Johnson)

Recorded 1923

This superlative set allows us the pleasure of actually hearing Jazz take its early steps;while not to fault Louis Armstrong's own greatness That came later on not in 1923;King Oliver has been one of the most criminally neglected artists in jazz history,and this marvelous release will no doubt force the jazz writers to reconsider,-whether 'Zulu's Ball' or 'High Society Rag',Oliver's capacity for collective improvisation drove these wonderful records.And now with the wonder of CD Technology,we can preserve Oliver's artistry in the new millenium,...so let us not make the mistake of ignoring Oliver like we did last century! Oliver is HERE so deal with it,skeptics and jazz lovers - REJOICE! --- Peter Acebal, amazon.com

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01 - Buddy's Habit
02 - Tears
03 - I Ain't Gonna Tell Nobody
04 - Room Rent Blues
05 - Riverside Blues
06 - Sweet Baby Doll
07 - Working Man Blues
08 - Mabel's Dream
09 - Mabel's Dream
10 - The Southern Stomps
11 - Riverside Blues
12 - King Porter
13 - Tom Cat
14 - Too Bad
15 - Snag It
16 - Georgia Man
17 - Deep Henderson
18 - Jackass Blues
19 - Home Town Blues
20 - Sorrow Valley Blues
21 - Sugar Foot Stomp
22 - Wa Wa Wa
23 - Tack Annie

Musicians:
King Oliver - Composer, Cornet
Louis Armstrong - Composer, Cornet, Swanee (Slide Whistle)
Barney Bigard - Clarinet, Multi Instruments, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Albert Nicholas - Clarinet, Multi Instruments, Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano)
Reverend Charlie Jackson - Bowed Bass, Double Bass, Sax (Baritone), Sax (Bass), Tuba
Billy Paige - Clarinet, Multi Instruments, Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano)
Bob Shoffner - Cornet
Stump Evans - Sax (Soprano)
Darnell Howard - Clarinet, Sax (Alto)
Kid Ory - Trombone
Honore Dutrey - Trombone
Bert Cobb - Bowed Bass, Double Bass, Tuba
Bud Scott - Banjo
Johnny St. Cyr - Banjo
Johnny Dodds - Clarinet, Piano
Lil Hardin - Composer, Piano
Jelly Roll Morton - Piano
Paul Barbarin - Composer, Drums
Baby Dodds - Drums
Richard M. Jones - Composer, Vocals
Luis Russell - Piano
Georgia Taylor - Vocals
R.J. Jones – Vocals

Louis Armstrong once remarked, "Had it not been for Joe Oliver, jazz would not be what it is today." As these recordings attest, he was the greatest bandleader of his day, able to bring his groups to a perfect balance of the tight and the loose, to control and compose diverse elements into a successful whole. He may have been the greatest talent scout too, giving not just Armstrong but a host of other fine New Orleans musicians their first exposure. What is sometimes overlooked is his sheer greatness as a trumpeter, both for the brightness and grandeur of his open horn and for his innovative and masterful use of mutes and buckets to find other voices for the instrument. In that sense he fathered two quite different lines of jazz trumpeters, lines that persist today. This CD completes the documentation of the superb 1923 band with Armstrong and the Dodds brothers, begun on Jazz Chronological Classics' 1923, and begins the documentation of his 1926 Chicago recordings. Oliver was also a great blues player, and there's ample evidence of that here, from the stately "Riverside Blues" of 1923 to the witty muted play of "Jackass Blues" and "Wa Wa Wa," both from 1926. --Stuart Broomer, amazon.com

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