King Oliver’s Dixie Syncopators Archives - Paul – and some of that Jazz

From the Record Shelves #154 – Showboat Shuffle – About twenty years ago, I had the chance to go to Chicago and play with my band. In one of the places where we played, a rather unpretentious concert, I was told at the intermission that the band of King Oliver (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #132 – Farewell Blues. There are many similarities between this 1923 recording and the one that King Oliver’s Dixie Syncopators made a couple of years later, especially in the attitude of the hot final choruses. Isham Jones played tenor sax (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #77 – Through Train Blues. Tampa Red had a sound, one of the best within the early jazz and blues idiom. It was based on his National guitar, on his open “E” (Vestapol) tuning and his glass bottle slide. But the control over these elements and (…) read more and listenread more and listen