Johnny Dodds

About the artist

Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940) was an American jazz clarinetist, and older brother of drummer Baby Dodds. Born in Waveland, Mississippi, he moved to New Orleans in his youth, and studied clarinet with Lorenzo Tio. He played with the bands of Frankie Duson, Kid Ory, and King Oliver. Dodds went to Chicago, played with Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, with which he first recorded in 1923. After break up of Oliver's band in 1924, Dodds replaced Alcide Nunez as the house clarinetist and bandleader of Kelly's Stables.

Top songs

  1. Melancholy
  2. Wild Man Blues
  3. Come On and Stomp Stomp Stomp
  4. Melancholy - 21/01/1938
  5. Clarinet Wobble
  6. Potato Head Blues
  7. Perdido Street Blues
  8. Come on and Stomp, Stomp, Stomp
  9. I'm Goin' Huntin'
  10. Bucktown Stomp
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  1. Too tight
  2. Wild man blues - Remastered
  3. Indigo Stomp - 10/06/1931
  4. New Orleans Stomp
  5. Memphis Shake
  6. Bull Fiddle Blues
  7. Drop That Sack
  8. If You Want to Be My Sugar Papa
  9. Little Bits
  10. Blue Piano Stomp
  11. Flat Foot
  12. I Can't Say
  13. Come On and Stomp, Stomp, Stomp - Original
  14. Indigo Stomp
  15. Gatemouth
  16. San
  17. Oriental Man
  18. Piggly Wiggly
  19. Weary City
  20. After You've Gone
  21. Mad Dog
  22. Joe Turner Blues
  23. High Society Rag
  24. 47th Street Stomp
  25. Blue Clarinet Stomp
  26. Billy Goat Stomp
  27. Lonesome Blues
  28. Come on and Stomp, Stomp, Stom
  29. Weary Way Blues
  30. Red Onion Blues
  31. Idle Hour Special
  32. Someday, Sweetheart
  33. Wild Man Blues (Alternate Take)
  34. Weary Blues
  35. Ballin' the Jack
  36. Grandma's Ball
  37. My Baby
  38. Stomp Time Blues
  39. Lady Love
  40. Forty and Tight
  41. Come On And Stomp, Stomp, Stomp - Remastered
  42. Mad Dog (07-14-26)
  43. Carpet Alley-Breakdown
  44. Melancholy - Remastered
  45. Pencil Papa
  46. Gravier Street Stomp
  47. Loveless Love (Apr-27)
  48. Oh Daddy (Mar-27)
  49. Wild Man Blues (01-21-38)
  50. Papa Dip
  51. San (4/21/1927)
  52. Gravier Street Blues
  53. Gate Mouth
  54. Blue Washboard Stomp
  55. Wolverine Blues
  56. 19th Street Blues (Apr-27)
  57. South Bound Rag
  58. East Coast Trot
  59. Chicago Buzz
  60. Mixed Salad
  61. Get 'Em Again Blues
  62. When Erastus Plays His Old Kazoo
  63. Someday Sweeetheart
  64. Salty Dog
  65. Flat Foot (Armstrong)
  66. Sun
  67. Perdido Stree Blues (Armstrong)
  68. Loveless Love
  69. Perdido Street Blues (07-13-26)
  70. Hen Party Blues
  71. New Orleans Stomp (Dodds)
  72. New St Louis Blues
  73. To Tight (Armstrong)
  74. Bohunkus Blues
  75. Oh Lizzie (4/21/1927)
  76. Hot Stuff
  77. Lady Love (Dominique)
  78. Stomp Time Blues (01-?-27)
  79. The Blues Stampede
  80. Weary Way Blues (Minor - Blythe)
  81. Buddy Burton's Jazz
  82. Adams Apple
  83. Goober Dance
  84. My Baby (Robinson)
  85. Pencil Papa (Hardin)
  86. Carpet Alley-Breakdown (Smith-Cliffort)
  87. 29th and Dearborn
  88. Ballin' The Jack (Clark)
  89. Ape Man
  90. Heah Me Talkin'

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