New Orleans Jazz Migrates NorthTo Chicago

Louis Armstrong (1901-71) Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941)trumpet piano

Joe “King” Oliver (1885-1938) and his Creole Jazz

Band

Dippermouth Blues, rec. 1923

New Orleans Jazz (12-bar blues form)

Left to right: Baby Dodds, drums; Honore Dutrey, trombone;

Joe “King”Oliver, first cornet; Louis Armstrong, second cornet;

Bill Johnson, bass/banjo; Johnny Dodds, clarinet; Lil Harden, piano

Intro – 4 bars

Chorus 1 – main melody and collective improvisation

Chorus 2 – collective improvisation

Chorus 3 – CLARINET solo (Johnny Dodds)

with band in stop time (1st and 3rd beats played

only)

Chorus 4 – CLARINET solo cont’d

Chorus 5 – collective improvisation

Chorus 6 – CORNET I solo (King Oliver)

Chorus 7 - CORNET I solo cont’d

Chorus 8 - CORNET I solo cont’d w/ break before final chorus

Chorus 9 – collective improvisation

Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five“Heebie Jeebies” (rec. 1926; written by Boyd Atkins)

see Tick p. 412 on scat

Louis Armstrong, trumpet

Johnny St. Cyr, guitar/banjo

Johnny Dodds, clarinet

Kid Ory, trombone

Lil Harden-Armstrong, piano

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) and his Hot Five (with Earl Hines, piano)

West End Blues, rec. 1928

New Orleans Jazz (12-bar blues form in each Chorus)

INTRO – high register

Chorus 1

Chorus 2

Chorus 3 – Armstrong, scat

Chorus 4 – Hines, ragtime virtuosity

Chorus 5

Duke Ellington, Old Man Blues, 1928

Duke Ellington, Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue, 1937Excerpt of Chorus 7 of 22

Lester Young, Lester Leaps In, 1939Young’s solo, tenor sax