Dippermouth Blues Music Analysis

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Dippermouth Blues" is a song first recorded by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band for Gennett Records in April 1923. The song is a strong example of the influence of the blues on early jazz. There is a twelve-bar blues harmonic progression, with frequent bent notes and slides into notes. Personnel’s are King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, cornets Honore Dutrey, trombone Johnny Dodds, clarinet Lil Hardin Armstrong, piano Bill Johnson, banjo Baby Dodds, drums. The ensemble it starts it rolling in New Orleans Collective improvisation. All the player play their parts and play together both the trumpet and the trombone are muted, and the rhythm is carried by the banjo, with the clarinet in the registers. The second chorus also collective improvisation both

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