Original dixieland jass band biography
Original dixieland jass band biography
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The Original Dixieland Jass Band, (ODJB), was a New Orleans, Dixieland-based jazz band that recorded the first jazz recordings in 1917. Their “Livery Stable Blues”, which was their first jazz single, was released in 1917.
They recorded many jazz standards including “Tiger Rag”, which was the group’s most well-known composition. The band’s name was changed from Original Dixieland Jazz Band to late 1917.
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Five musicians were members of the Papa Jack Laine band, which was a diverse, racially-integrated group of musicians that played for New Orleans parades, dances and advertising. ODJB was called the Creators of Jazz because it was the first to record jazz commercially, and the first to make recordings in this new genre.
Nick LaRocca, the band leader and trumpeter, argued that ODJB deserved to be recognized as the first group to record jazz commercially as well as the first to establish jazz music as a musical idiom. A promoter from Chicago approached