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Joseph Nathan Oliver was born in Aben, Louisiana, near Donaldsonville in Ascension Parish, to Nathan Oliver and Virginia "Jinnie" Jones.He claimed 1881 as his year of birth in his draft registration in September 1918 (two months before the end of World War I) but that year is open to debate, with some census records and other sources suggesting 1884 or 1885 as his true year of birth.
Snake Rag is a 1923 Dixieland jazz standard composed by Joseph "King" Oliver of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.It features Oliver and Louis Armstrong on cornet, Honoré Dutrey on trombone, Johnny Dodds on clarinet, Lil Hardin on piano, Baby Dodds on drums, and William Manuel Johnson on banjo.
"Snag-it" is a song written by Joe "King" Oliver.Oliver recorded the song with his Dixie Syncopators in Chicago for Vocalion/Brunswick on September 17, 1926. [1] Since then it has been recorded by numerous others, notably Louis Armstrong, Terry Lightfoot, Bunk Johnson, Humphrey Lyttelton, Ken Colyer's Jazzmen and contemporary artists such as Jeff Healey among many others.
Joe "King" Oliver wrote "West End Blues", and was the first to record it on June 11, 1928, with his band The Dixie Syncopators. [1] This recording established the basic form of the song that Armstrong's later recording followed. [2] On January 16, 1929, Oliver recorded the song again, borrowing from the Hot Five arrangement, though at a quicker ...
"Dippermouth Blues" is a song first recorded by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band for Gennett Records in April 1923 and for Okeh Records in June of that same year. It is most often attributed to Joe "King" Oliver, though some have argued that Louis Armstrong was in fact the composer. [1]
As the U.S. comes together to celebrate his life and legacy on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, TIME has compiled a number of lesser-known facts about the man whose ...
Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden (September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931) was an American cornetist who was regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or "jass", which later came to be known as jazz.
Joe Oliver (politician) (born 1940), Canadian politician and Minister of Finance Joe Oliver (rugby league) (fl. 1920–1940), English rugby league footballer of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s King Oliver (Joseph Nathan Oliver, 1885–1938), American bandleader and jazz musician