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The song was introduced by the George Morrison Jazz Orchestra in 1920 and popularized by the 1921 recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and Mamie Smith. [109] Smith's recording with her Jazz Hounds has been called the earliest genuine jazz recording by a black ensemble. [110] Bix Beiderbecke recorded an influential version in 1927. [109]
Henry Ragas. The Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917. Their "Livery Stable Blues" became the first jazz record ever issued. The group composed and recorded many jazz standards, the most famous being "Tiger Rag". In late 1917, the spelling of the band's name was changed ...
Original Dixieland Jass Band. Dominic James " Nick " LaRocca[1] (April 11, 1889 – February 22, 1961), was an American early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band, who is credited by some as being "the father of modern jazz". [2] He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time ...
The first recordings of New Orleans/Dixieland jazz came out in the 1920s, nearly two decades after the "hot" New Orleans sound and style had first been developed. By the time musicians of color like Freddie Keppard were recording, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, an all-white band, had already made the first jazz recordings and had dominated ...
In 1919, Kid Ory's Original Creole Jazz Band of musicians from New Orleans began playing in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where in 1922 they became the first black jazz band of New Orleans origin to make recordings. [118] [119] During the same year, Bessie Smith made her first recordings. [120]
Armstrong was the first jazz musician to appear on the cover of Time magazine on February 21, 1949. He and his All-Stars were featured at the ninth Cavalcade of Jazz concert also at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. held on June 7, 1953, along with Shorty Rogers , Roy Brown , Don Tosti and His Mexican Jazzmen, Earl ...