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About Johnny Dodds
Hometown
Waveland, MS, United States
Born
April 12, 1892
Genre
Jazz
One of the all-time great clarinetists and arguably the most significant of the 1920s, Johnny Dodds had a memorable tone in both the lower and upper registers, was a superb blues player, and held his own with Louis Armstrong (no mean feat) on his classic Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings. He didn't start on clarinet until he was 17 but caught on fast, being mostly self-taught. Dodds was with Kid Ory's band on and off between 1912 and 1919, played on river boats with Fate Marable in 1917, and joined King Oliver in Chicago in 1921. During the next decade, he recorded with Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and on his own heated sessions. He worked regularly in Chicago during the 1920s and '30s, but also spent time running a cab company. Dodds led recording sessions in 1938 and 1940, but died just before the New Orleans revival movement began.
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