Talk:King Oliver

message: As Wikipedia now has the capability to have quote marks in titles, I see someone moved the article from Joe King Oliver to Joe "King" Oliver. That seems fine... but the links and redirects were not changed with the move.
Should things be changed to go to Joe "King" Oliver? Or perhaps the simpler King Oliver (I don't believe there was anyone else commony refered to that way, and many pages already link to that name. -- Infrogmation 17:24, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but wasn't there more than one "King"?  I thought Buddy Bolden was a King first.  Nonetheless,  King Oliver just doesn't sound right.  Seems to me you could just let the situation drift until one of those botmeisters comes along to solve it by replacing all the Joe King Olivers with Joe "King" Olivers.  Ortolan88 17:47, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: ::User:Koavf has changed the title of this article to just "Joe Oliver."  This seems wrong.  After all, this was a famous musician known commonly as King Oliver.  How many people interested in Jazz history are going to come to Wikipedia looking for Joe Oliver?  He should be known by his most common name convention, which was King Oliver, or if one wants the full name, Joe "King" Oliver. StudierMalMarburg 22:27, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, it should go back to "Joe "King" Oliver" (or a close variation thereof). Yes, some people who remembered him called him "Joe Oliver", but no one called him "Joe Oliver (musician)"; his common nickname disambiguates him well. Unless a good reason why this change should be prefered is offered, I will move the article back. -- Infrogmation 22:32, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I moved it back. -- Infrogmation 00:01, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Title Episode 2: November 2006

message: For the time being I moved this "Discography" section below to talk. It lists only the two sides issued by Autograph (good stuff, but some of the most obscure of his dozens of sides before the modern reissues). The external link gives a better idea of his recording career than this does. -- Infrogmation 23:48, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discography

message: We need to cover the fact that his gravestone says he died 8 April, but we say he died 10 April.  Why is there a discrepancy?  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 10:59, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing out this discrepancy, Jack. Please see the footnote I added to the Death section of Oliver's page. I believe the death certificate should be the final authority as to somebody's date of death. Maybe somebody can obtain King Oliver's from that Georgia courthouse, scan it and link it to his page? The dates which are "carved in stone" on people's grave markers can be wrong. Some of my own ancestors and relatives have wrong info on their graves; their family members couldn't afford to pay the stonecutters to correct the errors! -- DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 14:54, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

text: Belated thanks, Dutchman.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 00:13, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of death

message: Can anyone provide the paragraph which states that Max Roach was in attendance at King's burial? Max would only have been 14 at the time...
I have found a link to the full text of "KING OF JAZZ" which I believe is the same source cited, at it states:
"By 1935, Oliver could no longer play, but the 
touring, such as it was, continued. In 1936, his 
headquarters were in Savannah. He had not 
enough clothes, he was ill. Again, there was still 
some touring, but in his last year, he ran a fruit 
stand and later worked fifteen hours a day as 
janitor in a pool hall. 
On Friday, 8 April 1938, Joseph 4 King' 
Oliver died of cerebral haemorrhage. His sister 
spent her rent money to have his body brought 
to New York. On 12th April Louis Armstrong, 
Clarence Williams and a loyal group of musician 
friends saw him buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, 
the Bronx, New York. There was no headstone 
on his grave. "''
I don't know where the idea that any of the musicians listed in the article attended the funeral came from.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.83.178.144 (talk) 02:33, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Funeral 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: In August 2016 there were a series of edits that changed Oliver's birthday as follows:
* from 11 May 1885 to 17 December 1881
* from 17 to 19 December 1881
* from 19 December 1881 to 19 December 1885
* back to 19 December 1881, where it's remained ever since.
None of these edits was sourced. How can we know whether any of these edits was correct, or whether the original date of 11 May 1885 should be reinstated? --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 05:25, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of birth edits

message: I’ve added the missing citations Wis2fan (talk) 16:11, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: You cannot used wikipedia as a reference. I've replaced your link to the Dutch wikipedia with one to the publisher of a new edition of that book/manual, which is also not ideal, but I haven't found any proper bibliographical reference. --Wrongfilter (talk) 16:22, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed