Oliver and his band returned to Chicago in 1922, where they started playing in the Royal Gardens cabaret as King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band (later renamed the Lincoln Gardens). In addition to Oliver on cornet, the personnel included his protégé Louis Armstrong on second cornet, Baby Dodds on drums, Johnny Dodds on clarinet, Lil Hardin (later Armstrong's wife) on piano, Honoré Dutrey on trombone, and Bill Johnson on double bass. Recordings made by this group in 1923 for Gennett, Okeh, Paramount, and Columbia demonstrated the New Orleans style of collective improvisation, also known as Dixieland, and brought it to a larger audience. Armstrong notably had to stand in the corner of the room, away from the horn, because of his powerful playing. In addition, white musicians would visit Lincoln Gardens in order to learn from Oliver and his band. A prospective tour in the midwestern states ultimately broke up the band in 1924.