Warren "Baby" Dodds
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Warren "Baby" Dodds
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Spüg
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Nat Townsley
Butch Trucks
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Billy Ward
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Derico Watson
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Jeff "Tain" Watts
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George Wettling
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Meg White
Steve White
Ron Wikso
Brad Wilk
Tony Williams
Matt Wilson
Shadow Wilson
Kenny Wollesen
Sam Woodyard
Dony Wynn
Pete York
Adrian Young
Mark Zonder
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Thanks Michael Gimino for choosing the music!








Warren "Baby" Dodds...

Though Baby Dodds' main body of work took place in the 1920s with Louis Armstrong and other New Orleans groups, he remains one of the most influential drummers who ever lived. He was a favorite and an inspiration to generations of percussionists, from Gene Krupa to Max Roach. - Dr. Bruce H. Klauber

Baby Dodds was one of first great drummers of Jazz and the brother of Johnny Dodds. Baby got his start playing in parades in New Orleans, occasionally with Frankie Dusen's Eagle Band. He played briefly with his brother in Kid Ory's Band, but was embarrassed when all the musicians walked off stage because of his poor playing. This incident spurred him on to become a better musician. He played in several other bands in New Orleans before joining Fate Marable's riverboat band in 1918. While working on the riverboat he played with Louis Armstrong, Johnny St. Cyr, Pops Foster, among others. He stayed in Marable's band until King Oliver asked him to join his band in San Francisco in 1921. Dodds followed Oliver to Chicago and was the drummer in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. After the breakup of that band Dodds worked with Honore Dutrey at the Dreamland in Chicago and with several other bands in the city.

From 1927 to 1929 Baby Dodds played in his brothers' band at Kelly's Stables along with Freddie Keppard. He was the drummer on many of the classic Chicago Jazz recordings of Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers and Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven. Throughout the Depression, Baby played in many of the small groups led by his brother Johnny Dodds and helped run a taxi cab company in Chicago. When his brother died in 1940, he went on to play with Jimmy Noone, and with Bunk Johnson. After 1949 Dodds had a series of strokes that left him partially paralyzed, but still managed to play from time to time up until his death.
Source: redhotjazz.com



BABY DODDS:
Despite his continuing importance and influence, Dodds' discography just isn't that long, if only because his most important work came so early in the history of recorded jazz. Thankfully, Dodds' famed "talking and drum solos" recordings originally done for the Folkways label in 1951 have been issued on CD on "Baby Dodds" (American Music label), fleshed out by a session he recorded with Bunk Johnson in the mid-1940s. Dodds first recordings were made in 1923 with King Oliver in Chicago, where Dodds remained for the next 20 years. Some of those tracks can be heard on "King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band 1923-1924" (a two-CD set on the Retrieval label).

His pioneering work with Louis Armstrong, though Dodds is not on every track, is out on Armstrong's 1925 to 1928 "Hot Fives and Hot Sevens, Volumes One-Three" (Columbia label). Dodds is also on some cuts with Jelly Roll Morton, with whom he played in 1927, on "The Jelly Roll Morton Centennial: His Complete Victor Recordings" (a five-CD set on the RCA label). Collectors may find some under-the-counter Dodds stuff on the market from various radio broadcasts from 1947 with a number of traditional groups, and/or airshots from a Europeon tour he made with Mezz Mezzrow in 1948.









performed with:

Louis Armstrong
Joe Oliver Band
Jelly Roll Morton
Red Hot Peppers
Mezz Mezrow
Fate Marable
Willy Hightower's American Star Band
Hot Seven
Johnny Dodds
Sidney Bechet
Bud Scott
Johnny St. Cyr
Kid Ory
Wellman Braud
Albert Nicholas
John Lindsay
Earl Hines
Barney Bigard
Stump Evans
Quinn Wilson
Omer Simeon
King Oliver
Darnell Howard
Pops Foster
Zutty Singleton
Jimmie Noon
Sister Ernestine

...and many more




















Classic Jazz Drummers - Swing and Beyond
Highlights include films of the legendary Sid Catlett with Louis Armstrong, Ray Bauduc with Jack Teagarden, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich with their own orchestras, Gus Johnson with the rarely-heard Count Basie small group, Joe Harris with the pioneering Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, Panama Francis with Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, never-before-seen solo footage of Philly Joe Jones, Stan Levey with a small group, the groundbreaking bop of Kenny Clarke and many others.

A certifiable find: The only existing film of that influential New Orleans pioneer, the one and only Warren “Baby” Dodds.
Classic Jazz Drummers presents six decades of legendary drummers soloing and battling.

Special DVD Features: Four bonus clips featuring Sonny Payne, Shelly Manne, Lionel Hampton and Philly Joe Jones as well as an exclusive photo gallery of these early jazz drummers.

Running Time: 70 minutes

$29.95 plus shipping






















Baby Dodds, Honoré Dutrey, Bil Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds,
Lil Hardin-Armstrong. Sitting in the foreground: King Oliver








Baby Dodds
...jamming with Jimmy Noone and Roy Eldridge at the 3 Deuces Chicago 1940










King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
- Honore Dutrey - Baby Dodds - King Oliver - Louis Armstrong -
- Lil Hardin-Armstrong - Bill Johnson - Johnny Dodds




Baby Dodds with Marty Marsala and Bunty Pendelton