" Written by Matt Wagner, it was described as " playing the ' 30s with a ' 90s feel ... haunting, film noir-ish ...," and starring original Sandman Wesley Dodds in a title whose " sensibilities echo crime genre fiction.

Louis Armstrong and the drummer Baby Dodds claimed to have met Beiderbecke when their New Orleans-based excursion boat stopped in Davenport.

He had one of the best-known bands in New Orleans in the 1910s, hiring many of the great jazz musicians of the city, including, cornetists Joe " King " Oliver, Mutt Carey, and Louis Armstrong ; and clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone.

Adolphe Paul Barbarin ( May 5, 1899 – February 17, 1969 ) was a New Orleans jazz drummer, usually regarded ( along with Baby Dodds ) as one of the very best of the pre-Big Band era jazz drummers.

Johnny Dodds ( April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940 ) was an American New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe " King " Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong.

Warren " Baby " Dodds ( December 24, 1898 – February 14, 1959 ) was a jazz drummer born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Although Dodds had several paid teachers during his early years as a drummer, various jazz drummers around New Orleans also influenced him.

The band played in various venues around New Orleans, and Dodds recalls hearing many musicians along the way, including Buddy Bolden, John Robichaux, and Jelly Roll Morton.

Dodds describes this experience in his autobiography: “ The jazz played after New Orleans funerals didn ’ t show any lack of respect for the person being buried.

Dodds gained reputation as a top young drummer in New Orleans.

Dodds, having remained a New Orleans style drummer untouched by the influence of swing, found himself playing a role in the New Orleans jazz revival.

Dodds ended up playing with Johnson's band in New York.

Dodds returned to Chicago after the European tour and while taking a trip to New York in April 1949, he suffered a stroke.

Dodds was most well known, however, for what he called his “ shimmy beat ,” which he first used in 1918 at Jack Sheehan ’ s in New Orleans.

They heard great jazz drummer Warren " Baby " Dodds playing inventive solos while in New York City with Bunk Johnson's band.

After two years in the United States Army, returned to playing in Chicago mostly with New Orleans bands, joining Carroll Dickerson's Orchestra ( recording with it in 1927 ) and later with the groups of King Oliver, Jimmie Noone, Tiny Parham, Johnny Dodds.

The original Hot Five were, other than Armstrong's wife Lil Hardin Armstrong on piano, all New Orleans musicians who Armstrong had worked with in that city in the 1910s: Kid Ory on trombone, Johnny Dodds on clarinet, and Johnny St. Cyr on guitar and banjo.

* The Sandman ( Wesley Dodds ) in New York World's Fair # 1 created by Gardner Fox and Bert Christman, published by National Periodical Publications

Vivian B. Mann, Thomas F. Glick, and Jerrilynn D. Dodds, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1992.

: The first issue featured an essay by Jean-Paul Sartre and an interview with the great New Orleans jazz drummer Baby Dodds.

Recognized mainly for a personal brand of " contemporary early-jazz ,” he strives to extend the legacy of the unique clarinet style anchored in the musical vocabulary created by early New Orleans clarinetists such as Lorenzo Tio Jr., Sidney Bechet, Omer Simeon, Barney Bigard, and Johnny Dodds.

3, # 9, which takes place at a point during the 70 years of the first issue, as does Sandman Midnight Theatre, a 1995 Gaiman-penned prestige format one-shot in which Dream and Wesley Dodds meet in person after the events in the storyline, " The Python ," which ended with Dodds's lover, Dian Belmont, going to England, which eventually brings both her and Dodds to Roderick Burgess's mansion.

It was published between issues # 71 and # 72 ( but took place during the span of issue # 1 ), the latter of which showed Dodds out of costume.

Of his brother, Baby Dodds said the following: “ There just couldn ’ t be another Johnny Dodds or anyone to take his place.

* Falcon Ridge Folk Festival takes place every July on Dodds Farm, 4. 5 miles north of the Route 22 & 23 intersection.

Dodds is an unincorporated place in eastern Clearcreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States, formerly on the Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway.

In 1925, Ory moved to Chicago, where he was very active, working and recording with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Joe " King " Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and many others.

It has one seat in the European Parliament, where its MEP, Diane Dodds, sits as a Non-Inscrit.

He became a regular at Nick's in Manhattan, where he played with Pee Wee Russell, Baby Dodds, and others.

Adding fuel to the fire we're comments made in an interview with Dan Dodds ( aka Soul Jones ) earlier in the year where Riley suggested that there we're only elements, not fully produced songs from his work with Michael Jackson still left in the can.

He then moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he worked with such bands as that of Erskine Tate through the 1920s and with such jazz notables as Louis Armstrong and Johnny Dodds and impressed the young Earl Hines.

* 1892 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist ( d. 1940 )

* 1898 – Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer ( d. 1959 )

* February 14 – Baby Dodds, American jazz musician ( b. 1898 )

* August 8 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist ( b. 1892 )

* December 24 – Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer ( d. 1959 )

* April 12 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinettist ( d. 1940 )

He therefore consulted jazz historian Bill Russell, who helped Gara check Dodds ’ interviews for details that historical findings did not support.

Although some details may be exaggerated, The Baby Dodds Story serves as a depiction of early jazz and its many influences as seen through Dodds ’ eyes.

Dodds is perhaps the first jazz drummer to record unaccompanied: in 1945 he recorded two solos for Circle Records, and the next year recorded a series of solos and reminiscences for Folkways Records.

Most of his contemporaries would play a short buzz or press roll on the back beats ( the 2nd and 4th beats ), but Dodds would play a long roll that lasted till the following beat, which created a smoother time feel that he later developed into the jazz ride pattern most commonly used ever since.

* Johnny Dodds, jazz clarinetist

Noone is generally regarded as one of the greatest of the second generation of jazz clarinetists, along with Johnny Dodds and Sidney Bechet.

* December 24-Baby Dodds, jazz drummer

In 1952, Steiner leased reissue rights to a newly-formed jazz label, Riverside Records, which reissued a substantial number of 10 " and then 12 " LPs by many of the blues singers in the Paramount catalog, as well as instrumental jazz by such Chicago-based notables as Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band ( which included a very young Louis Armstrong ), Johnny Dodds, Muggsy Spanier, and Meade Lux Lewis.