when he held out for more money; young Duke Ellington took the job and subsequently catapulted to fame. The Great Depression brought hardship to Oliver. He lost his life savings to a collapsed bank in Chicago, and he struggled to keep his band together through a series of hand-to-mouth gigs until the group broke up. Oliver also had health problems, such as pyorrhea, a gum disease that was partly caused by his love of sugar sandwiches and it made it very difficult for him to play and he soon began delegating solos to younger players, but by 1935, he could no longer play the trumpet at all. Oliver was stranded in Savannah, Georgia, where he pawned his trumpet and finest suits and briefly ran a fruit stall, then he worked as a janitor at Wimberly's Recreation Hall (526-528 West Broad Street). Oliver died in poverty "of arteriosclerosis, too broke to afford treatment" in a Savannah rooming house on April 8 or 10, 1938. His sister spent her rent money to have his body brought to New York, where he was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. Armstrong and other loyal musician friends were in attendance. Honors and awards Oliver was inducted as a charter member of the Gennett Records Walk of Fame in Richmond, Indiana in 2007. Selected compilation discography Papa Joe: King Oliver and His Dixie Syncopators 1926–1928 (Decca, 1969) Louis Armstrong and King Oliver (Milestone, 1974) The New York Sessions (Bluebird, 1989) Sugar Foot Stomp The Original Decca Recordings (GRP, 1992) Dippermouth Blues (ASV Living Era, 1996) Great Original Performances 1923–1930 (Louisiana Red Hot, 1998) Sugar Foot Stomp Vocalion & Brunswick Recordings Vol. 1 (Frog, 2000) The Best of King Oliver (Blues Forever, 2001) The Complete Set: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (Retrieval, 2004) The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings (Off the Record, 2006) King Joe Oliver by Walter C. Allen and Brian A. L. Rust, Jazz Monographs No. 1, February 1956, published by Walter C. Allen Beleville, N.J. (This is the second printing; Jazz Monographs No. 1. October 1955 was the first printing of this biography and discography.) See also "Snag it" References External links King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators, Red Hot Jazz Archive, syncopatedtimes.com King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band @ Red Hot Jazz Archive Joe "King" Oliver (1885-1938), syncopatedtimes.com King Oliver's WWI Draft Registration Card and Essay, doctorjazz.co.uk Joseph Oliver, findagrave.com King Oliver recordings at the