The ensemble, billed on the initial releases as “King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band,” immediately launched a thousand other groups, although few if any emulated Oliver’s use of two cornets.

The Brief Reign of King Oliver article by Karl Ackermann, published on June 12, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Backstories articles ...

By the year 1916, he teamed up with Edward “Kid” Ory on trombone, and started the Kid Ory and King Oliver Band, this was the best band in the city at the time, and they kept at it for another three ...

The 21-year-old Armstrong, on cornet, was a protégé of New Orleans fellow cornetist and band leader King Joe Oliver. On April 5, 1923, they went into a Richmond, Ind., studio for a two-day session.

One hundred years ago this week King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band visited the Gennett Records studio in Richmond for a two-day recording session, making history not only because of the ...

a band stage and a mural painted by David Laughlin that depicts King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band. Walk a little further down a narrow hall and you’re then transported to Agatha’s Coffee and ...

The band's lineup of musicians rotates ... rag and no-frills hot jazz — all while delving into the deep cuts of King Oliver’s Creole Orchestra, Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, 1920s dance ...

where he had a job waiting for him in the band led by his longtime mentor, Joseph “King” Oliver. Between April and December of the following year, they would record 37 tracks together—among ...

That's Johnny Dodds on clarinet. (SOUNDBITE OF KING OLIVER'S "CANAL STREET BLUES") WHITEHEAD: In another band, two top players of the same horn would battle for supremacy. But Louis Armstrong ...