King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: The Complete Set

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: The Complete Set Artist: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
Label: Challenge
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 608917900712
EAN: 0608917900712
ASIN: B000005R5L


Release Date: 1997-05-27

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Tracks:

  1. Just Gone
  2. Canal Street Blues
  3. Mandy Lee Blues
  4. I'm Going Away To Wear You Off My Mind
  5. Chimes Blues
  6. Weather Bird Rag
  7. Dipper Mouth Blues
  8. Froggie Moore
  9. Snake Rag
  10. Snake Rag
  11. Sweet Lovin' Man
  12. High Society Rag
  13. Sobbin' Blues
  14. Where Did You Stay Last Night?
  15. Dipper Mouth Blues
  16. Jazzin' Baby Blues
  17. Alligator Hop
  18. Zulu's Ball
  19. Working Man Blues
  20. Krooked Blues

Tracks:

  1. Chattanooga Stomp
  2. London Cafe Blues
  3. Camp Meeting Blues
  4. New Orleans Stomp
  5. Buddy's Habits
  6. Tears
  7. I Ain't Gonna Tell Nobody
  8. Room Rent Blues
  9. Riverside Blues
  10. Sweet Baby Doll
  11. Workin' Man Blues
  12. Mabel's Dream
  13. Mabel's Dream
  14. Mabel's Dream
  15. The Southern Stomps
  16. The Southern Stomps
  17. Riverside Blues
  18. Kiss Me Sweet
  19. Construction Gang
  20. King Porter Stomp
  21. Tom Cat

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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Same old same old..........2006-02-27

There's really nothing much here that hasn't been reissued previously again and again and again. All these Oliver sets sound like they're derived from the same sources and just recycled by different labels. These are dull, bland sounding transfers. The only thing this set has going for it is that it's "complete". Otherwise, it doesn't make for very satisfying listening.

3 out of 5 stars King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: The Complete Set.......2006-02-02

The rhythm banjo drowns out the horns during the first 28 cuts. Cuts 29 thru 41 are much better in that regard. Cuts 40 and 41 are especially good in that we are able to hear King Oliver solo. Louis Armstrong shows us that he can be an ensemble player. He also shows us that he can play a slide whistle too. This CD is a compendium of some of the classic jazz tunes of the era. If one is an arranger, this disc could serve as a foundation illustrating how these tunes sound when played straight.

5 out of 5 stars King Oliver's best cd........2005-09-06

Music in this double cd is the best in King Oliver's career.
He plays with young Louis Armstrong and there are some great numbers specially on disc 1. Sound on this 2Cd is great. I love real sound like this without sound reflection which appears on Great original performances.
It is essential music for all fans of early jazz .

3 out of 5 stars The best collection so far BUT............2005-04-08

Before this release, we were stuck with the Milestone reissue on CD, which is left over from the early days of digital remastering. The noise is gone, but so is half of the music. Not good. Luckily, this collection came out a few years later. Certainly better than the Milestones, but still not a satisfying collection. This 2 disc set of all of the Oliver sides (including the extremely rare Autograph sessions with Jelly Roll Morton AND the one-of-a-kind "Zulus Ball" on Gennett) is a very exciting collection to own if you are interested in "having" them all. For listening pleasure, however, the set is rather inconsistent in its sound quality and in some cases downright painful to listen to. I am a fan of the work of Mr. Davies (the remastering engineer here) but in this case I think he missed the boat. Sometimes the EQ is overly boosted in the bottom end, causing lots of resonance and wolf tones. Meanwhile, the high midrange (where the cornets are) is also overly boosted and creates a painful 'stabbing the eardrums' sensation. I've heard a few of these originals coming straight off of 78 RPM, and they sound nothing like this set. In the attempt to emphasize various sections of the band, I think overall clarity has been sacrificed. The Columbia and Paramount sides are excessively tinny; there is much more sound on these records. There are also variations in pitch, sometimes even in the middle of songs; apparently from making a composite from two transfers. Volume from song to song also varies.

I understand that acoustically recorded sides generally need some help to shine, but here they have been strangely equalized and sound very unnatural. The whole project is put together rather sloppily as well. The track listing doesn't allow for the fact that this is a 2 CD set; Disc 2 starts with "track 21.." ??Even the discographical information is hard to comprehend; to find personnel on any given song, you have to go back to the first session and add and subtract members through each subsequent session.

My favorite reissue (if you can find it) is still the 1974 Herwin LP with all of the Gennett sides "untouched". An A-B comparison between the Herwin and Retrieval versions of the Gennett sides shows an instant and remarkable difference.

I hope one day someone will put out a complete set of the Creole Jazz Band sides with natural sounding transfers. I'd welcome a little noise if it would allow the glory of these recordings to be heard more fully.

5 out of 5 stars Rediscovering A Legend.......2001-12-18

This superlative set allows us the pleasure of actually hearing Jazz take its early steps;while not to fault Louis Armstrong's own greatness That came later on not in 1923;King Oliver has been one of the most criminally neglected artists in jazz history,and this marvelous release will no doubt force the jazz writers to reconsider,-whether 'Zulu's Ball' or 'High Society Rag',Oliver's capacity for collective improvisation drove these wonderful records.And now with the wonder of CD Technology,we can preserve Oliver's artistry in the new millenium,...so let us not make the mistake of ignoring Oliver like we did last century! Oliver is HERE so deal with it,skeptics and jazz lovers - REJOICE!

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