King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and his genius

King Oliver, whose real name is Joseph Oliver, is the famous American jazz cornet. He started learning music as a trombone artist, and since 1907 he is playing various brasses and dance bands, and also participated in small groups of black bars and cabarets of New Orleans.

"King" Joe Oliver was still in New Orleans, speaking in the orchestra trombonist "Kid" Ory. Oliver After leaving Chicago Oliver replaced young and talented cornet, Louis Armstrong, and in 1922 Louis Armstrong at the invitation of Oliver started working in "Creole Jazz Band" second cornet. With a celebrity of New Orleans band of clarinetist Johnny Dodds, his younger brother, drummer "Baby" Dodds, the Chicago young and educated pianist Lil Hardin, played a magnificent example of improvisational New Orleans jazz. The local Chicago musicians were absolutely fascinated by a new style with an entirely new rhythm, and have impacted on students a good impression. Stylistic changes are appeared with playing of this kind of bands In Chicago.

With the arrival of the new band brass bass gradually replaced by bass, banjo replaced by guitar, and the pipeline, as more expressive tool replaces a cornet. That’s why the rest of the Chicago jazz band simply could not compete with Oliver’s band. Oliver Orchestra every evening crowds of admirers in Chicago Cafe “Dreamland”. Without a doubt, there could be heard the best original New Orleans jazz, and orchestra performance of Oliver was extremely temperamental and varied.
In 1923, the band began recording a series of records, which leaved a significant mark in the jazz history.  The music of Orchestra was polyphonic and remarkably coherent. Every musician adhered to the role that Oliver, as an experienced director, thought up for them to implement their own plan.

Like many New Orleans jazz cornet of that period, Oliver played in a melodic style, mainly in the square rhythm. It is possible to meet various effects borrowed from blues vocals in the game of Oliver. He often used the mute different forms, changing the timbre of his instrument.

In 1925, the Creole Jazz Band has successfully played in Chicago, but soon after the end of the contract (1927) is collapsed. Oliver remained in New York for next three years, where was the last concert of the orchestra. In 1930-1936 he toured the U.S. with various small orchestras, but since 1931 he not recorded. The last years of his life Oliver held in the city of Savannah.
Oliver played with his team almost exclusively and doing a great job with the responsibilities of leadership. The success of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in many ways to ensure strict discipline, which Oliver demanded musicians. Oliver took notes which help to revive Chicago style after the death of a musician.