Joseph King Oliver - Know Louisiana

Pioneering jazz trumpet and cornet player and band leader "King"; Oliver played an instrumental role in popularizing jazz outside of New Orleans and was an important mentor in the life of Louis Armstrong.

The man whom Louis Armstrong called 'the finest trumpeter' in New Orleans, 300 for 300

WBSS Media-King Oliver

King Oliver and Louis Armstrong – Two of the Most Influential Jazz Musicians in History

King Oliver and Louis Armstrong

Centennial Tribute To King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band

New Orleans Jazz Museum - Happy Birthday to legendary cornetist, bandleader, composer, and Louis Armstrong mentor, Joseph King Oliver, born on the Salsburg Plantation near Aben, Louisiana in 1885. (Some sources list

When Jazz Moved to Chicago The National Endowment for the Humanities

Listening to King Oliver's and Louis Armstrong's 1923 Recordings, Part 1

Louis Armstrong First Documented Performance in Baton Rouge - Country Roads Magazine

Joseph King Oliver: Profiles in Jazz - The Syncopated Times

Joseph King Oliver (U.S. National Park Service)

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