The older brother of drummer Baby Dodds was always in the top ranks of clarinetists. Twenty-seven tracks on this collection. You’ll hear why,along with Buster Bailey, he had a huge influence on Benny Goodman.
Highlights include: “Gate Mouth” w/New Orleans Wanderers, “House Rent Rag” w/Dixieland Jug Blowers, “Willie The Weeper” w/Louis Armstrong’s Hot Seven and “When Erastus Played His Old Kazoo” w/Johnny Dodd’s Black Bottom Stompers.
Dodds is also heard with: King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five, Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals, King Oliver’s Dixie Syncopators, Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Wizards, The Johnny Dodds Trio, Jimmy Blythe’s Washboard Wizards, Blind Blake, Johnny Dodds’ Washboard Wizards, Johnny Dodds’ Hot Six, Sippie Wallace, Paramount Pickers, Johnny Dodds & His Chicago Boys and Johnny Dodds & His Orchestra.
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