Johnny Dodds

[Lazaro Vega]

Back to work tonight on Blue Lake Public Radio and looking forward to featuring the music of the great New Orleans clarinetist Johnny Dodds. Understanding the role in music of the early jazz greats is the most critical step in appreciating the entire genre. Dodds, who passed away before the "New Orleans Revival" was underway in the 1940's, helped define small band jazz of the 1920's, and did so next to the pioneering leaders in the music: King Oliver, Jelly Morton and Louis Armstrong. Not only that, recordings sessions under his own name capture on record many otherwise undocumented south side Chicago players from the 1920's. Johnny "Dots" in the first 20 minutes of each hour, 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. edt tonight via http://www.bluelake.org/radio.html

Jelly ROLL Morton