Southern Stomps, Chimes Blues, Room Rent Blues, I Ain't Gonna Tell Nobody, Mabel's Dream, Sweet Baby Doll, Tears, Buddy's Habit,Working Man Blues, Riverside Blues, Chhattanooga Stomp, Camp Meeting Blues, Alligator Hop, Krooked Blues, London Cafe Blues, Jazzin' Babies Blues, Dippermouth Blues. The October, ‘23 sessions are the essence here from Room Rent to Riverside. Alligator Hop is an Oliver tune co-written with Piron. Oliver also wrote Chattanooga Stomp which shows off the great rhythm section led by Lil Hardin. Oliver’s unique style supported playing full out blues with the rhythmic heavy beat. The music jumps out. There isn’t any comparison in 1923 with Ory or Morton who used more nuanced -not wall of sound -dynamics. And there have been apparently no successful close imitators in a century that went in the direction of Dixieland. Not even Armstrong went with the wall of sound. Ellington Rockin’ in Rhythm shows how far it goes symphonically but without the pounding grounded dance rhythm of Hardin. Mezz Mezzrow appreciated Hardin’s pounding piano. Ironically this best of all bands in 1923, Oliver’s, was no model for others to try to surpass. Oliver himself changed his style to stay current with trends. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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