King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band

King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band Joe “King” Oliver (near Abend, Louisiana, May 11, 1885; Savannah, Georgia, April 8, 1938) assembled the first of the great black jazz bands in Chicago. He came from New Orleans, where he had played in Kid Ory’s band. He left New Orleans permanently in 1918 and became popular with the Chicago public. He assembled his Creole Jazz Band in mid-1922 for a job at Lincoln Gardens on the South Side. He brought Louis Armstrong to Chicago, and the band made its first…