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Dodds, Baby, 1898-1959

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Personal name headingDodds, Baby, 1898-1959
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Variant(s)Dodds, Warren, 1894-1959
Dodds, Warren, 1898-1959
See alsoCorporate body: Baby Dodds' Jazz Four
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1898-12-24
Death date1959-02-14
Place of birthNew Orleans (La.)
Place of deathChicago (Ill.)
AffiliationHot Seven
Profession or occupationDrummers (Musicians) Jazz musicians Percussionists
Found inHis The Baby Dodds story, 1959.
Oxford music online, August 1, 2013: New Grove dictionary of American music, 2nd ed. (Dodds, Baby (Warren); born December 24, 1898, New Orleans, LA, died February 14, 1959, Chicago, IL; American drummer, brother of Johnny Dodds; jazz musician)
Morton, J.R. Winin' boy blues [SR] 1946: label (Baby Dodds' Jazz Four)
African American National Biography, accessed December 16, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: ( Dodds, Baby; Warren Dodds; jazz musician, percussionist; born 24 December 1898 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States; got jobs on riverboats plying the Mississippi; played with Louis Armstrong in a group called the Jaz-E-Saz Band; played in the Hugh Swift Band at the Evergreen Golf Club (1926); the first of the influential drum stylists, he revolutionized the drumming of his time; high point in his career occurred when Louis Armstrong formed his Hot Seven Band (1927) with him playing the drums; died 14 February 1959 in Chicago, Illinois, United States)