Johnny Dodds

Johnny Dodds ( born April 12, 1892 in Waveland, Mississippi; † August 8, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American jazz clarinetist of the New Orleans style.

Life and work

Dodds pulled her even as a child to New Orleans, where he received from Lorenzo Tio clarinet lessons and from 1912 to 1919 played in Kid Ory's band, then with Fate Marable on his paddle steamer Orchestra and 1920 with King Oliver, with whom he was in California in 1921 and 1923 went to Chicago (recordings with his Creole Jazz Band and with King Oliver's Jazz Band ). Later he replaced Alcide Nunez as a clarinetist in the house band of Kelly 's Stables, where he was also a leader ( in the band played, inter alia, Freddie Keppard and his brother Baby Dodds ). Between 1925 and 1927 he played in the Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings by Louis Armstrong on ( Hot Fives & Sevens ). He made more recordings with Lil Hardin Armstrong et al ( Lill 's Hot Shots ) and Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers. With his Black Bottom Stompers, which included Armstrong, Roy Palmer, Barney Bigard, Earl Hines, Bud Scott and Baby Dodds, him his only chart success "Blues Wild Man " came with the Brunswick, in October 1927, the Billboard Top 30 reached.

Unlike many other Chicago musicians he moved in the 1930s not to New York. He led his own bands (often with his friend, the trumpeter Natty Dominique and his brother ), with whom he recorded too, and had a taxi company during the Depression with his brother. Because of his poor health, there are few recordings from the 1930s ( until 1938, when he was already quite ill ). In contrast, approximately at the same time acting Jimmie Noone he had an emotional, blues - charged style that came good in collaboration with Armstrong to advantage. He played as many of the early jazz clarinetist a clarinet with German fingering system.