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  • Enigmatic '20s blues singer Elizabeth Johnson is best known for her collaboration with jazz impresario King Oliver.

    Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-Two 2009

  • He chose a piece composed by his mentor, King Oliver, called "West End Blues" -- a work named for a resort outside of New Orleans, the city from which both Armstrong and Oliver had come.

    Louis Armstrong's Revolution 2008

  • CONAN: ... is it a-- you know, when you grow up with that kind of legacy, you know, Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, all of the greats, you know ...

    Tribute to the Music of New Orleans 2005

  • The music of Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Sidney Bechet, and Bix Beiderbecke, much of it recorded before the war, had inspired countless British admirers and imitators, among them George Melly, Humphrey Lyttelton, and Chris Barber.

    Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

  • Chicago with King Oliver as the band's second trumpeter, he was immediately recognized as a jazz trumpet virtuoso, and his playing sent an electric shock through the jazz world.

    The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs

  • Enthused by the 1920s New Orleans jazz style epitomised by Louis Armstrong and King Oliver, he formed a band in 1942 and set about replicating the music captured on their recordings, this apparently innocuous activity appearing radical at a time when swing music was all the rage.

    Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk Peter Vacher 2010

  • It is dedicated to my instrument and its major jazz players over a period of 85 years, from King Oliver to Louis Armstrong to Wynton Marsalis.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • The band will also lead a New Orleans-style parade through downtown Wooster (place your that'll-be-a-short-parade joke here) at 1: 45 p.m., filling the streets with the sounds of early jazz masters, including Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver and of course, Louis Armstrong.

    unknown title 2009

  • “My memory of yesterday is gone,” Lou said with a sigh, “but ask me who played bass with King Oliver in ’02 and I’ll tell you his shoe size and how he liked his okra cooked for supper.

    Dancing in the Dark Kaminsky, Stuart 1996

  • Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard, Harry Belafonte, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, King Oliver and Pete Seeger pay homage to the icon.

    Expecting Rain 2008

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