Baby Dodds
Warren "Baby" Dodds grew up in a musical New Orleans family, learned drums in the city's street parades, and by the early 1920s was anchoring King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band alongside a young Louis Armstrong. He went on to record with Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven and with Jelly Roll Morton, pioneering the jazz ride pattern and becoming, in the 1940s, one of the first drummers ever recorded playing unaccompanied solos.
the sound in question
1946
Spooky Drums No. 1Baby Dodds
we haven’t charted Baby Dodds yet
this stretch of the river isn’t mapped. we trace the watershed one artist at a time — and we’re always heading further upstream.