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Oliver, King [Joseph]

composer, cornet, lyricist, bandleader, trumpet


born: 11 May 1885 New Orleans, Louisiana / state, USA Source: 1  

born: 19 Dec 1885 Abent, Louisiana / state, USA Source: 2  
born: ------------ New Orleans, Louisiana / state, USA Source: 3  
born: - Abend, Louisiana / state, USA Source: 4  
born: - Louisiana / state, USA Source: 5  

died: 10 Apr 1938 Source: 6  
died: 08 Apr 1938 Savannah, Georgia / state, USA Source: 1  
died: 08 Apr 1938 Savannah, Georgia / state, USA Source: 2  
died: 10 Apr 1938 Source: 7,8,9  
died: 08 Apr 1938 Source: 6  
died: 10 Apr 1938 Source: 5  

The Music Sack has 187 items with information about King [Joseph] Oliver
The first 100 are listed below (to view all 187 items click here)


 1999

Artist Index

p. 237-258 In:
MacKenzie, Harry
The directory of the Armed Forces Radio services series
Compiled by Harry Mackenzie
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999

Number of People : 1,855


 1998

Index

The above item is part of :
Larkin, Colin
The encyclopedia of popular music
Third edition
New York: Macmillan, 1998, 8 v.

Number of People : 43,747


 1996

[Index of Names]

The above item is part of :
Bloom, Ken
American song
The complete musical theater companion: 1877-1995. Volume 2: T-Z and indexes
Second edition
New York: Schirmer Books, 1996, 2093 p.

Number of People : 24,881


 1996

Mancuso, Chuck
Popular music and the underground
Foundations of jazz, blues, country, and rock, 1900-1950
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996, 626 p.

Number of People : 288


 1996

[Artist Index]

The above item is part of :
Ruppli, Michel
The Decca labels. A discography. Volume 6
Record numerical listings & general artist index
Compiled by Michel Ruppli
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996, 958 p.

Number of People : 10,351


 1996

Contemporary musicians volume 15
Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1996, 313p.

Number of People : 60


 1994

Anderson, Gene
The Genesis of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
American Music, 12-3, 1994, p. 283-303

Number of People : 1


 1994

Anderson, G.
The genesis of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
American Music 12:283+ N3 1994
       il notes ports
       Note: includes appendix

Number of People : 1


 1994

Balen, Noel
L'odyssee du jazz
Paris: Liana Levi, 1994, 767 p.

Number of People : 93


 1994

The Coastal Jazz Hall of Fame

p. 114 In:
Horstein, Julius
Sites and sounds of Savannah jazz
By Julius Horstein
Savannah: Gaston Street Press, 1994, 114 p.

Number of People : 24


 1994

Horstein, Julius
Sites and sounds of Savannah jazz
By Julius Horstein
Savannah: Gaston Street Press, 1994, 114 p.

Number of People : 15

More Details : (1 Section)


 1993

Record reviews Sugar Foot Stomp.
Jazz Journal International 46:20-21 Jan 1993

Number of People : 1


 1993

Lombardi, Giorgio
New Orleans, Chicago, New York
Retrospettiva sul jazz tradizionale alla ricerca di un patrimonio da salvare
Anzco: De Rubeis, 1993, 375 p.

Number of People : 64


 1993

Record reviews The Complete Joseph "King" Oliver Volume 6.
Jazz Journal International 46:36 Nov 1993

Number of People : 1


 1993

Record reviews King Oliver : Vol. 1 1929-1930; Vol. 2 1929-1930
New Orleans Music 4:29-30 N3 1993

Number of People : 1


 1993

Record reviews The Complete Joseph "King" Oliver Volume 5.
Jazz Journal International 46:36 Nov 1993

Number of People : 1


 1993

Yanow, S.
Syncopation jazz quiz
Jazztimes: 23:80 N2 1993
       port

Number of People : 1


 1993

Record reviews The Complete Joseph "King" Oliver Volume 3.
Jazz Journal International 46:36 Nov 1993

Number of People : 1


 1993

Megill, Donald D.
Demory, Richard S.
Introduction to jazz history
3rd edition
By Donald D. Megill and Richard S. Demory
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1993, 337 p.

Number of People : 37


 1993

Record reviews The Complete Joseph "King" Oliver Volume 4.
Jazz Journal International 46:36 Nov 1993

Number of People : 1


 1992

Record reviews 1928-1930.
Jazz Journal International 45:44 May 1992

Number of People : 1


 1992

Schallplattenbesprechungen Volume One 1923 to 1929.
Jazz Podium 41:98 Jul-Aug 1992

Number of People : 1


 1992

Record reviews Volume One 1929-30.
Jazz Journal International 45:44 Nov 1992

Number of People : 1


 1992

Record reviews Complete Vocalion/Brunswick Recordings 1926-1931.
Jazz Journal International 45:29 Aug 1992

Number of People : 1


 1992

Record reviews 1930-1931.
Jazz Journal International 45:30 Aug 1992

Number of People : 1


 1992

Dorough, Prince
Popular-music culture in America
New York: Ardsley House Publishers Inc., c1992, 352 p.

Number of People : 96


 1992

Mandel, Howard
Bedrock beauties
Down Beat 59:50-51 Aug 1992

Number of People : 1


 1992

Record reviews 1926-1928.
Jazz Journal International 45:29-30 Aug 1992

Number of People : 1


 1992 Source: 9

Larkin, Colin
The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music
Edited by Colin Larkin
Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Publishing, 1992, 4V p.

Number of People : 5,680

More Details : (1 Section)


 1992

Record reviews Volume Two 1929-30.
Jazz Journal International 45:44 Nov 1992

Number of People : 1


 1992

Schallplattenbesprechungen Volume Two 1927 to 1930.
Jazz Podium 41:98 Jul-Aug 1992

Number of People : 1


 1992

Reissues Sugar Foot Stomp (CD)
Cadence 18:32-3 Dec 1992

Number of People : 1


 1992

Big band reviews : Sugar Foot Stomp.
Jazztimes: 22:71-2 N10 1992

Number of People : 1


 1992

Record reviews 1923-1926.
Jazz Journal International 45:31-2 Sep 1992

Number of People : 1


 1991

Arnaud, Gerald
Chesnel, Jacques
Masters of Jazz
Gerald arnaud and Jacques Chesnel
Chambers, 1991, 248 p.

Number of People : 81


 1991

Lagne, Horst H.
Als der Jazz begann 1916-1923 : Von der "Original Dixieland Jazz Band"
Bis zu King Olivers "Creole Jazz Band"
Berlin: Colloquium Verlag, 1991, 128 p.

Number of People : 17


 1991

Record reviews King Oliver, Vol 1: 1923-1929 : King Oliver, Vol 2: 1927-1930.
New Orleans Music 3:35-8 N1 1991

Number of People : 1


 1991

Knock it off.
Second Line: 43:29 Summer 1991

Number of People : 1


 1991

Record reviews Volume Two : 1927 to 1930.
Jazz Journal International 44:37-8 Dec 1991

Number of People : 1


 1991

Record reviews Volume One : 1923 to 1929.
Jazz Journal International 44:37-8 Dec 1991

Number of People : 1


 1991

Record reviews The New York Sessions (1929-1930)
New Orleans Music 2:38 N3 1991

Number of People : 1


 1991

Billard, Francois
Jazz anthology (1918-1939)
Paris: EPM, 1991, 391 p.

Number of People : 385


 1990

Michel, D.
Louis, Dizzy, Miles et les autres, par Jon Faddis
Jazz Magazine (France) N395:48-9 Jul-Aug 1990
       port
       Note: interview

Number of People : 1


 1990

Reissues The New York Sessions (CD)
Cadence 16:62 Mar 1990

Number of People : 1


 1990

Reeditions The Complete King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, 1923
Jazz Magazine (France) N395:58+ Jul-Aug 1990
       port

Number of People : 1


 1989 Source: 8

Clarke, Donald
The Penguin encyclopedia of popular music
Edited by Donald Clarke
London: Viking, 1989, 1378 p.

Number of People : 4,498


 1989

Perlo, Don
Lyons, Len
Jazz portraits
The lives and music of the jazz masters
By Len Lyons and Don Perlo
New York: William Morrow, 1989, 610 p.

Number of People : 217


 1989

Malson, Lucien
Les maitres du jazz d'Oliver a Coltrane
Neuvieme edition mise a jour
Presses Universitaires de France, 1989
      (Series: Que sais-je?)

Number of People : 9


 1989

Williams, Martin
Jazz in its time
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, 272 p.

Number of People : 24


 1989

Arnaud, Gerald
Nougaro, Claude
Chesnel, Jacques
Les grands createurs de jazz
By Gerald Arnaud et Jacques Chesnel
Preface de Claude Nougaro
Bordas, 1989, 256 p.

Number of People : 66


 1989

Clark, D.
Educated cat stole my mute idea : Joe Oliver
Down Beat 56:36 Sep 1989
       reprint

Number of People : 1


 1989

Walker, Leo
The big band almanac
New York: Da Capo Paperback, 1989

Number of People : 268


 1988

Record reviews LPs : King Oliver.
Jazz Journal International 41:43 Dec 1988

Number of People : 1


 1988 Source: 6

Kernfeld, Barry Dean
The new Grove dictionary of jazz
Edited by Barry Kernfeld
London: Macmillan Press, 1988

Number of People : 3,377


 1988

Record reviews Vols. 1-5.
Jazz Journal International 41:26 Jan 1988

Number of People : 1


 1988

Giddins, Gary
Jazz special The working man blues
Village Voice: 33:15-8 Jun 21 1988
       bibliog biog discog ports

Number of People : 1


 1988

Havens, D.
Oh, play that thing!
Jazz Research Papers (Naje) 8:67-79 1988
       bibliog
       Note: the transition from New Orleans jazz to swing

Number of People : 1


 1987

Reissues Sweet Like This.
Cadence 13:33-4 Apr 1987

Number of People : 1


 1987

Record reviews Hometown Blues.
Footnote 18:23-4 N3 1987

Number of People : 1


 1987

Floyd, Samuel A. Jr.
Black music biography : an annotated bibliography
White Plains, New York: Kraus International Publications, 1987

Number of People : 87


 1986

Kington, Miles
Weef,
Gelly, Dave
The giants of jazz
Introduction by Miles Kington
Drawings by Weef
New York: Schirmer Books, 1986

Number of People : 79


 1986

Sadie, Stanley
Hitchcock, H. Wiley
The new Grove dictionary of American music
edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie
New York, N.Y. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. 4 v.

Number of People : 3,993


 1986

Norris, J.
Music in the tradition
Coda Magazine: N208:10-12 Jun 1 1986

Number of People : 1


 1986

Balliett, Whitney
American musicians : fifty-six portraits in jazz
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986

Number of People : 52


 1986

Whitburn, Joel
Joel Whitburn's Pop memories 1890-1954
The history of American popular music compiled form America's popular music charts 1890-1954
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc., 1986, 657 p.

Number of People : 1,376


 1985

Schafer, William J.
King Joe : thoughts on the King Oliver centenary
Footnote 16:4-11 N4 1985
       biog

Number of People : 1


 1985 Source: 5

Chilton, John
Simmen, John
Who's who of jazz : Storyville to Swing Street
Foreword by John Simmen
London: Macmillan, 1985, 175 p.

Number of People : 1,172


 1985

Record reviews The Okeh Sessions 1923.
Jazz Journal International 38:36 Nov 1985

Number of People : 1


 1985

Record reviews King Oliver and His Dixie Syncopators, Vols. 1-3.
Jazz Journal International 38:32-4 Jul 1985

Number of People : 1


 1983

Polillo, Arrigo
Jazz : la vicenda e i protagonisti della musica afro-americana
Milan: Amoldo Mondadori Editore, 1983, 789 p.

Number of People : 34


 1983

Tucker, M.
Louis Armstrong and King Oliver, 1923-1926
Sonneck Society For American Music Bulletin: 9:18 Spring 1983
       Note: abstract

Number of People : 1


 1982

Konow, Albrekt von
King Oliver : mastaren fraan New Orleans
Oj--Orkester Journalen 50:20-21 Dec 1982
       biog ports

Number of People : 1


 1982

Bernhardt, C.
Talking about King Oliver
An oral history excerpt
Annual Review of Jazz Studies 1:32-8 1982
       Note: from seminar on "The Legacy of King Oliver", Rutgers University, June, 1978

Number of People : 1


 1982

Leonard, N.
Some religious implications of the legacy of King Oliver
Annual Review of Jazz Studies 1:21-31 1982
       biog
       Note: based on paper delivered at seminar on "The Legacy of King Oliver", Rutgers University, June, 1978

Number of People : 1


 1982

Ewing, A.
Royal Family U.S.A. (poem)
Annual Review of Jazz Studies 1:13 1982

Number of People : 1


 1982

Bernhardt, Clyde
Talking about King Oliver
An oral history excerpt.
Annual Review of Jazz Studies. 1 (1982), S. 32-38.

Number of People : 1


 1982

Leonard, Neil
Some religious implications of the legacy of King Oliver.
Annual Review of Jazz Studies. 1 (1982), S. 21-31.

Number of People : 1


 1981

Waxing on Dixie Syncopators.
Down Beat 48:46-7 Jun 1981

Number of People : 1


 1981

Horricks, Raymond
Gammond, Peter
Big bands
Edited by Peter Gammond and Raymond Horricks
Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1981, 183 p.
      (Series: Music on record; 2)

Number of People : 106


 1981

Record reviews Louis Armstrong and King Oliver.
Jazz Journal International 34:29 Jan 1981

Number of People : 1


 1981

Gleason, Harold
Early American music : music in America from 1620 to 1920
Bloomington, Indiana: Frangipani Press, 1981
      (Series: Music Literature Outlines: Series III)

Number of People : 129


 1981 Source: 4

Southern, Eileen
Biographical dictionary of Afro-American and African musicians
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981, 478 p.

Number of People : 1,184


 1980

Rich, Alan
The Simon and Schuster listener's guides
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980

Number of People : 39


 1980

Harris, Rex
The story of jazz
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980

Number of People : 46


 1980 Source: 1

Sadie, Stanley
The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians
London: Macmillan, 1980

Number of People : 20,506


 1980

Reda, Jacques
L'esperance de King Oliver
Jazz Magazine (France) N285:20-23+ Apr 1980
       biog ports

Number of People : 1


 1979

Fossati, Furio
Mannucci, Michele
I grandi della musica jazz
Milan: Longanesi & C., 1979

Number of People : 99


 1979

Shore, Dinah
Simon, George Thomas
The best of the music makers. From Acuff to Ellington to Presley to Sinatra to Zappa and 279 more of the most popular performers of the last fifty years
By George T. Simon and friends
Foreword by Dinah Shore
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1979, 635 p.

Number of People : 256


 1979

Robijns, Jozef
Zijlstra, Miep
Algemene muziek enciclopedie
hoofdred., J. Robijns en Miep Zijlstra
Haarlem: De Haan, [1979]-1984

Number of People : 16,262


 1979

Tallmadge, William H.
Equipment failure and audio distortion in the acoustical recording and remastering of early jazz
Journal of Jazz Studies 5:60-66 N2 1979
       bibliog table
       Reprint of paper presented at the meeting of the Sonneck Society, February 9-11 1979, New Orleans

Number of People : 1


 1979

Lyttelton, Humphrey
The best of jazz; Basin Street to Harlem; jazz masters and masterpieces, 1917-1930
New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1979

Number of People : 13


 1978

Erskine, G.M.
The Question of King Oliver's Birth Date.
Second Line, vol. 30, Winter 1978. p. 49-51

Number of People : 1


 1978

Green, Stanley
Kings of jazz
South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1978

Number of People : 11


 1978

Williams, Martin
King Oliver.
Kings of jazz. South Brunswick; London 1978. S. 241-272.
       Mit Abb.

Number of People : 1


 1978

Artists' Index

p. 1754-1845 In:
Rust, Brian
Jazz records 1897-1942
4th revised and enlarged edition
Vol. 2: Abe Lyman to Bob Zurke
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1978, 1996 p.

Number of People : 9,605


 1977

Record reviews King Oliver and His Dixie Syncopators.
Footnote 8:22-3 N6 1977

Number of People : 1


 1977

Balliett, Whitney
Jazz
New Yorker, vol. 53, April 25, 1977. p. 94-98

Number of People : 1


 1977

Wiggs, J.
Wiggs : Sell-Explained.
Second Line, vol. 30, Spring 1977. p. 4

Number of People : 1


 1977

Record reviews : King Oliver's Jazz Band 1923.
Coda, no. 156, July-August 1977. p. 21-22

Number of People : 1


 1977

Record reviews : King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
Jazz Journal International, vol. 30, October 1977. p. 48

Number of People : 1


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