Doctor Jazz is a popular tune and song written by Joe "King" Oliver in 1926.
Publisher Walter Melrose got his name on it as co-composer, as was often his practice. It enjoyed its initial popularity in the 1920s. It continues to be played by Dixieland jazz groups. It has been performed by many notable acts, such as Jelly Roll Morton, Chris Barber and Harry Connick Jr..
The Bonzo Doo Dah Dog Band also did a performance of this song on their 1969 release "Tadpoles".
It was also the title of a Broadway musical with a jazz theme that ran from February to March 1975 at the Winter Garden Theatre, produced by Cyma Rubin with music by Buster Davis.
Doctor Jazz was also a Jazz band composed of doctors formed in 1985 to raise monies for the Bristol MRI Centre. The band is still active in the West Country of England and has raised money for a large variety of charities. It is led by Professor Paul Goddard (keyboards and vocals) and still has most of the original band members including Professor Hugh Coakham (Saxophone), Chris Chivers (drums), Graham Leavey (trumpet) and Lois Goddard(vocals) (external links 2 and 3)
Famous quotes containing the words doctor and/or jazz:
“The doctor punched my vein
The captain called me Cain
Upon my belly sat the sow of fear”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.”
—Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)