Original dixieland jazz band members
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The Legends of Jazz – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
While not the original creators of jazz (that credit goes to vän Bolden), the Original Dixieland Jazz grupp could be credited with bringing jazz to the forefront in the music industry.
The grupp – known as the Original Dixieland Jass grupp back in the day – began as a small musical ensemble in 1916, when a promoter in Chicago approached John Stein and Alcide Nunez to create a New Orleans-style grupp. After a lot of shuffling, the band came down to the following musicians:
- Drummer Tony Sbarbaro (Tony Spargo)
- Trombonist namn “Daddy” Edwards
- Cornetist Dominick James “Nick” LaRocca
- Clarinetist Larry Shields
- Pianist Henry Ragas
A Brief Look at History
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band (hereafter mentioned as ODJB) was the first to declare their grupp as strictly jazz or jass as it was known back then.
In their quest to appeal to the American recording industry, the grupp came to New York City, where they w
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Original Dixieland Jass Band
American jazz band
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 to Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
The band consisted of five musicians who had played in the Papa Jack Laine bands.
ODJB billed itself as "the Creators of Jazz". It was the first band to record jazz commercially and to have hit recordings in the genre. Band leader and cornetist Nick LaRocca argued that ODJB deserved recognition as the first band to record jazz commercially and the first band to establish jazz as a musical idiom or genre.
The original quintet disbanded in 1926. Ten years later, Nick LaRocca recruited most of the quintet to form a new swing band featuring the ODJB members. The full q
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Original Dixieland Jass Band (after mid-1917 spelling changed to Jazz) A Chicago band that played the popular Dixieland Jazz style. A band which, in 1917, was the first ever to make a jazz recording. It was also the first jazz band to achieve widespread prominence. The Original Dixieland Jass Band are often known by their initials, the O.D.J.B.
The band consisted of 5 white musicians who had previously been playing in the Papa Jack Laine bands, a diverse and racially integrated collection of musicians who played for parades, dances, and advertising in New Orleans.
The O.D.J.B. were billed as the "Creators of Jazz". Trumpeter Nick LaRocca convinced himself, in his old age, that this was literally true, but there is no evidence from the interviews and writings of the other O.D.J.B. members that the rest of the band ever considered it anything more than a snappy advertising slogan.
In early 1916 a promoter from Chicago, Illinois approached clarinetist Alcide Nunez and drum