Group · 1916–1925 · New Orleans [29.98, -90.08]
Original Dixieland Jass Band
A five-piece of white New Orleans musicians led by cornetist Nick LaRocca, the Original Dixieland Jass Band formed around 1916 and carried the city's new dance music to Chicago and then New York. In 1917 they made the recording long cited as the first jazz record, opening the music to a mass audience for the first time. Their brisk, novelty-tinged sides made 'jass' a national craze, even as the deeper roots of the idiom lay with the Black musicians they had heard at home.
Evidence2
- MusicBrainz: Original Dixieland Jazz BandMusicBrainz
musicbrainz.org/artist/6e3d6e70-2f11-4732-a789-4a9d608ef24a
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www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q933710
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Connections2
collaborates with → Livery Stable Blues
The Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded 'Livery Stable Blues' in 1917, the side most often named as the first jazz record. The performance, full of imitative horn effects, put the band and the new word 'jazz' before a national audience for the first time.
collaborates with → At the Jazz Band Ball (single)