| LC control no. | n 85031479 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Oliver, King, 1885-1938 |
| Variant(s) | Oliver, Joe, 1885-1938 Oliver, Joseph, 1885-1938 |
| See also | Corporate body: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band Corporate body: King Oliver's Jazz Band Corporate body: King Oliver's Orchestra Corporate body: Dixie Syncopators |
| Located | New Orleans (La.) Chicago (Ill.) |
| Birth date | [1881-12-19,1884-12-19,1885-05-11,1885-12-19] |
| Death date | [1938-04-08,1938-04-10] |
| Place of birth | Aben (La.) |
| Place of death | Savannah (Ga.) |
| Field of activity | Jazz |
| Profession or occupation | Trumpet players Cornet players Band directors Jazz musicians Composers |
| Found in | His King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators [SR] p1984: label (King Oliver, trumpet, cornet, band leader) container (Joe Oliver) New Grove (Oliver, King (Joe) b. 5/11/1885 in or near New Oreleans, d. 4/8/38 in Savannah) LC manual cat. (hdg.: Oliver, Joseph, 1885-1938) Oxford music online, February 1, 2017: New Grove dictionary of jazz, 2nd edition (Oliver, King (Joe); born May 11, 1885, New Orleans(?); died April 8/10, 1938, Savannah, GA; American jazz cornettist and bandleader) Encyclopedia of popular music (Oliver, King; born May 11, 1885, Abend [sic], Louisiana; died April 10, 1938, Savannah, Georgia; cornettist and bandleader) Wikipedia, February 1, 2017 (King Oliver; Joseph Nathan Oliver; born December 19, 1881, Aben, Louisiana; died April 10, 1938, Savannah, Georgia; better known as King Oliver or Joe Oliver; American jazz cornet player and bandleader; also a notable composer) Hanley, Peter. Portraits from Jelly Roll's New Orleans, WWW site, viewed February 1, 2017 (King Oliver; Joseph Nathan Oliver; probably born on Salsburg Plantation, near Aben, about 50 miles from New Orleans, December 19, 1884; birth date given as December 1885 in 1900 U.S. Census, as December 19, 1881 on World War I draft card; age given as 30 years in 1910 census and as 35 in 1920 census; age given as 26 on marriage certificate (July 13, 1911) and as 52 on death certificate (April 10, 1938)) <http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/portnewor.html#koliver> KnowLA, WWW site, February 1, 2017 (King Oliver; Joseph "King" Oliver; Joseph Nathan Oliver; born in Edgard [Louisiana]; exact date is in dispute, but current evidence indicates that he was born December 19, 1885; died April 10, 1938, in Savannah; buried in New York City) <http://www.knowla.org/entry/837/> Feather, Leonard. Biographical encyclopedia of jazz, 1999 (Oliver, King (Joe); cornet, leader; born on plantation near Abend [sic], LA, May 11, 1885; died Savannah, GA, April 8, 1938) Find-a-grave WWW site, February 1, 2017 (Joseph "King" Oliver; dates on gravestone: born May 11, 1885; died April 8, 1938; jazz musician; born on a plantation in Louisiana; moved to New Orleans in his teen years and formed the "Creole Jazz Band" in 1915; in 1923 he moved the band to Chicago) |
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