New Orleans jazz

Style · c. 1900-1920s · New Orleans · Origins (1890-1930)

Collective improvisation in three voices (cornet, clarinet, trombone): Buddy Bolden, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers (Victor, Chicago, 1926), Sidney Bechet.

What is still debated

Buddy Bolden left no surviving recordings.

Where it comes from

• Blues, spirituals, work songs
• Afro-diasporic roots
• Ragtime
• New Orleans

What it gave rise to or influenced

• Dixieland (ODJB, 1917)
• Chicago
• Traditional revival
• Antillean jazz (biguine, gwoka)

Artists

• Jelly Roll Morton (1890–1941, piano)
• Sidney Bechet (1897–1959, clarinet, soprano saxophone)
• King Oliver (1881–1938, cornet)
• Kid Ory (1886–1973, trombone)

Tracks to start with

• King Porter Stomp — Jelly Roll Morton (1923)
• Black Bottom Stomp — Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers (1926)
• Petite Fleur — Sidney Bechet (1952)
• Les oignons — Sidney Bechet (1949)

Sources

• EN : Music of New Orleans

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