Wild Man Blues

Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers · 1927 · with Louis Armstrong

Context

Credited to Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong, this slow blues was cut in Chicago on April 22, 1927, for Brunswick by a septet assembled by clarinetist Johnny Dodds. Dodds, a mainstay of the Oliver and Armstrong bands, displays the expressive playing that left its mark on Benny Goodman.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Chicago, New Orleans jazz. Among the origins and influences of Chicago: New Orleans jazz, Dixieland (ODJB, 1917).

Sources

• adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu
• syncopatedtimes.com
• EN: Johnny Dodds

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