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Johnny Dodds

BAND RANKINGS:

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All Time

of 150,043

419
Decades
- 1920s
  
  of 19
  
  9
- 1990s
  
  of 7,254
  
  0
- 2000s
  
  of 10,572
  
  0
Genres
- Jazz
  
  of 1,947
  
  96
- Pop
  
  of 13,671
  
  860

CAREER SPAN:

Decade

Album Score

# Albums

1920s

2.6550

1990s

0.0000

2000s

0.0000

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.

Overall Band Score: Johnny Dodds is ranked overall as 2.8137 out of 4 stars

2.8137

Johnny Dodds Biography

Formed:

April 1892

Disbanded:

August 1940

Genres:

Blues, Jazz, Pop

Labels:

Allegro Corporation, Asv Living Era, Best Of Jazz/city Hall, Black Swan (bsw), Classics, Classics French, Frog U.k., Louisiana Red Hot, Mca Dist Corp, Neatwork (nea), Quadromania/wave Imports, Timeless (tml), Wheezy Multimedia

History:

One of the all-time great clarinetists and arguably the most significant of the 1920s, Johnny Dodds (whose younger brother Baby Dodds was among the first important drummers) had a memorable tone in both the lower and upper registers, was a superb blues player, and held his own with Louis Armstrong (no mean feat) on his classic Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings. He did not start on clarinet until he was 17 but caught on fast, being mostly self-taught. Dodds was with Kid Ory's band during most of ...more

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