Russell Davies presents a history of jazz, from its earliest stirrings to the end of the millennium.
6: King Oliver and the Shape of Swing to Come. It was not until 1922, when Kid Ory went into a studio in Los Angeles, that a black band was first able to record. A more substantial body of black jazz was put down a bit later by the cornetist
King Oliver, whose latest band recruit was a young man called Louis Armstrong.
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