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Victor # 18457-A Original Dixieland jazz band -one-step - undated

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Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Darktown Strutters Ball 1918	1.23 MB	1.28 MB	1.06 MB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Good-Bye Alexander 1918	1.37 MB	1.43 MB	1.15 MB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Hold That Tiger1917	771 KB	1.55 MB	397 KB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - King Tut Strut	240 KB	289 KB	224 KB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Margie	1.44 MB	1.49 MB	961 KB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Ringtail Blues	1.31 MB	2.67 MB	800 KB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Sensation Rag 1918	1.36 MB	927 KB	842 KB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Slide Kelly Slide 1919	1.32 MB	1.37 MB	675 KB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - That's Got 'Em 1919	1.38 MB	1.43 MB	1.07 MB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - (Back Home Again In) Indiana	1.56 MB	1.61 MB	1.40 MB

“The first great jazz orchestra was formed in New Orleans by a cornet player named Dominick James LaRocca. They were the hottest five pieces that had ever been known before. They all came to be famous players and the Dixieland Band has gone down now in musical history.”
- Louis Armstrong, Swing That Music, 1936

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Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Georgia Swing	1.14 MB	2.05 MB	1.14 MB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Indiana	1.52 MB	1.57 MB	1.40 MB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Jazz Me Blues	1.38 MB	2.46 MB	757 KB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - LIVERY STABLE BLUES 1917 (the FIRST Recording of Jass !)	1.43 MB	3.15 MB	1.66 MB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Look at 'Em Doing It	1.70 MB	2.17 MB	1.50 MB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Mammy O' Mine 1920	1.68 MB	3.00 MB	1.09 MB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Medley	3.37 MB	4.22 MB	3.37 MB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - One-Step	1.20 MB	1.01 MB	760 KB
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Ostrich Walk	1.46 MB	1.87 MB	1.09 MB
original dixieland jazz band - Sphinx 1920	1.40 MB	2.51 MB	1.17 MB

Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Medley

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The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, who billed themselves "The Creators of Jazz", have long been been dismissed as the White guys who copied African-American music, and called it their own. There is a lot of truth to that statement, but on the other hand, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's recordings still hold their own unique charm, over 80 years after their initial release. However unfair and indicative of the racism of the era, the record "Livery Stable Blues", coupled with"Dixie Jass Band One Step" became the first Jazz record ever released on February 26, 1917 for the Victor Talking Machine Company. It was wildly successful. Its release signaled the beginning of the Jazz age and helped define the wild, exuberent era we call the "Roaring Twenties". The Original Dixieland Jazz Band had recorded for Columbia in January 1917, but the session was unsuccessful and the band had to come back and re-record the songs, thus the release of the Columbia sides did not come about until after the amazing success of the Victor records. The group had formed in New Orleans, all of the musicians had played in Papa Jack Laine's Reliance Brass Band at one time or another. In 1916 the band moved from New Orleans to Chicago, just like so many of the African-American and Creole musicians from that city. In Chicago, they played a season at the Booster Club under the name of Stein's Dixie Jass Band. At the beginning of the following year the band ditched Stein and moved to New York where, on the recommendation of Al Jolson, they landed a gig at Reisenweber's Café on Columbus Circle and 58th Street, a fashionable restaurant and night-spot. The band created quite a stir and Columbia rushed to record the band only two weeks after they had arrived in the city. The band was an immediate success, with their wacky stage antics, like wearing top hats that spelled out "Dixie", playing the trombone's slide with the foot, and so on. The band's slogan was "Untuneful Harmonists Playing Peppery Melodies", and their leader Nick La Rocca and cornet player delighted in stirring up the press, describing themselves as musical anarchists and coining fun statements like "Jazz is the assassination of the melody, it's the slaying of syncopation". After the Reisenweber's Café engagement end the band played at the Alamo Cafe (148th Street) and the College Inn at Coney Island. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band went on to record and play in London, producing 20 tracks for Columbia, including another big hit, Soudan. They returned to America in July of 1920. They signed a new record contract with Okeh, but the public began to tire of them and they never regained the sales or popularity of their initial success. The group broke up in 1925 after La Roccasuffered a nervous breakdown. The surviving members briefly re-formed in 1936 and recorded some sides for Victor. In 1940 the band re-formed yet again, but this time without La Rocca and recorded six sides for Bluebird and played up until 1940. Eddie Edwards formed a version of the band that recorded a V-Disc during World War II and for Commodore Records in 1945 and 1946. Tony Sbarbaro was the only other original member to perform on those sessions.

Thanks to Verne Buland and James Gallup for their help with the recordings on this page.

Title	Director	Year
The Good For Nothing	Carlyle Blackwell	1917

Title	Recording Date	Recording Location	Company
Alice Blue Gown (Joseph McCarthy / Harry Tierney)	5-14-1920	London, England	Columbia 824
At The Jass Band Ball (Larry Shields /Nick LaRocca)	9-3-1917	New York, New York	Aeolian Vocalion A 1205
At The Jazz Band Ball (Larry Shields /Nick LaRocca)	3-18-1918	New York, New York	Victor 18457-A
At The Jazz Band Ball (Larry Shields /Nick LaRocca)	4-16-1919	London, England	Columbia 735
Barnyard Blues (Original Dixieland Jass Band)	8-17-1917	New York, New York	Aeolian Vocalion B 1205
Barnyard Blues (Nick LaRocca)	4-16-1919	London, England	Columbia 735
Barnyard Blues (Original Dixieland Jazz Band)	4-20-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 4841
Barnyard Blues (Nick LaRocca)	10-9-1936	New York, New York	Victor 25502
Barnyard Blues (A-1) (Nick LaRocca)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore C-610
Barnyard Blues (A-2) (Nick LaRocca)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore (G)6.26170
Barnyard Blues (B-1) (Nick LaRocca)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore C-610
Barnyard Blues (B-2) (Nick LaRocca)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore (G)6.26170
Bluin' The Blues (Henry Ragas)	12-30-1920	New York, New York	Victor 18483-A
Bluin' The Blues featuring Larry Shields on clarinet (Henry Ragas)	9-2-1936	New York, New York	Victor 25403-B
Bluin' The Blues (Henry Ragas)	10-9-1936	New York, New York	Victor 25525-A
Bow Wow Blues (My Mama Treats Me Like A Dog) (Cliff Friend / Nate Osbourne)	12-1-1921	New York, New York	Victor 18850-A
Broadway Rose Introducing "Dolly (I Love You)" (Eugene West / Martin Fried / Otis Spencer) (Wheeler Wadsworth / Victor Arden)	2-25-1918	New York, New York	Victor 18722-A
Clarinet Marmalade Blues (Larry Shields / Eddie Edwards / Tony Sparbaro / Nick LaRocca)	7-17-1918	New York, New York	Victor 18513-B
Clarinet Marmalade Blues Featuring Nick LaRocca on Trumpet and Larry Shields on Clarinet (Larry Shields / Eddie Edwards / Tony Sparbaro / Nick LaRocca)	10-9-1936	New York, New York	Victor 25525-B
Crazy Blues (Introducing "It's Right Here For You") (If You Don't Get It - Tain't No Fault O' Mine) (Perry Bradford / Alex Belledna)	1-28-1921	New York, New York	Victor 18729-B
Darktown Strutters Ball (3) (Shelton Brooks)	5-31-1917	New York, New York	Columbia A2297
Darktown Strutters Ball (4) (Shelton Brooks)	5-31-1917	New York, New York	Columbia A2297
Dangerous Blues Vocal Chorus - Al Bernard (Anna Welker Brown / Billie Brown)	1-28-1921	New York, New York	Victor 18798-A
Did You Mean It? Featuring Nick La Rocca on the Trumpet Vocal refrain by Chris Fletcher (Mort Dixon / Jesse Greer)	9-25-1936	New York, New York	Victor 25420-B
Dixie Jass Band One Step Introducing "That Teasin' Rag" (J. Russel Robinson / Nick LaRocca / Joe Jordan)	2-26-1917	New York, New York	Victor 18255-A
Drop A Nickel In The Slot (Fred E. Ahlert / Joe Young)	1938	New York, New York	Bluebird B-7454
Fidgety Feet (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca)	2-25-1918	New York, New York	Victor 18564-A
Fidgety Feet (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca)	9-25-1936	New York, New York	Victor 25668
Good-Night, Sweet Dreams, Good-night Vocal refrain by Lola Bard (Teddy Powell / Leonard Whitcup)	1938	New York, New York	Bluebird B-7444-A
Home Again Blues (Introducing "Lindy") (Irving Berlin / Harry Akst)	1-28-1921	New York, New York	Victor 18729-A
I Live For Love	10-9-1935	New York, New York	Vocalion 3084
I'm Sittin' High On A Hill-Top	10-9-1935	New York, New York	Vocalion 3084
Indiana (2) (James F. Hanley)	5-31-1917	New York, New York	Columbia A2297
Indiana (3) (James F. Hanley)	5-31-1917	New York, New York	Columbia A2297
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (Kenbrovin / Kellette)	1-8-1920	London, England	Columbia 805
In My Little Red Book (Stillman / Bloch / Simon)	1938	New York, New York	Bluebird B-7444-B
I've Got My Captain Working For Me Now (Irving Berlin)	1-8-1920	London, England	Columbia 815
I've Lost My Heart In Dixieland (Irving Berlin)	12-1-1920	London, England	Victor 815
Jazz Me Blues (Tom Delaney)	5-3-1921	New York, New York	Victor 18772-B
Jezebel (Mercer / Warren)	1938	New York, New York	Bluebird B-7454
'Lasses Candy (Nick LaRocca)	8-19-1919	London, England	Columbia 759
Lazy Daddy (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca / Henry Ragas)	7-17-1918	New York, New York	Victor 18564-B
Lazy Daddy (1) (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca / Henry Ragas)	10-20-1945	New York, New York	Commodore (G)6.26170
Lazy Daddy (2) (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca / Henry Ragas)	10-20-1945	New York, New York	Commodore unissued
Lazy Daddy (3) (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca / Henry Ragas)	10-20-1945	New York, New York	Commodore unissued
Lazy Daddy (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca / Henry Ragas)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore C-612
Livery Stable Blues (Ray Lopez / Yellow Nuńez )	2-26-1917	New York, New York	Victor 18255-B
Look At 'Em Doing It Now (Larry Shields)	11-21-1917	New York, New York	Aeolian Vocalion 1242
Mammy O'Mine (Maceo Pinkard)	12-1-1920	London, England	Columbia 804
Margie (Intro. "Singin' The Blues") (Con Conrad / J. Russel Robinson)	12-1-1920	New York, New York	Victor 18717-A
Mornin' Blues (Tony Sbarbaro)	7-17-1918	New York, New York	Victor 18513-A
Mournin' Blues (1) (Tony Sbarbaro)	10-20-1945	New York, New York	Commodore (G)6.26170
Mournin' Blues (2) (Tony Sbarbaro)	10-20-1945	New York, New York	Commodore unissued
Mournin' Blues (Tony Sbarbaro)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore C-611
Mournin' Blues) (Tony Sbarbaro)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore unissued
My Babies Arms (Joseph McCarthy / Harry Tierney)	1-8-1920	London, England	Columbia 805
Old Joe Blade	9-25-1936	New York, New York	Victor 26039
Original Dixieland One-Step (Nick LaRocca)	10-9-1936	New York, New York	Victor 25502
oooOO-OH Boom! (Mike Riley)	1938	New York, New York	Bluebird B-7442-A
Oriental Rag (Dinwitty)	11-24-1917	New York, New York	Aeolian Vocalion 12097
Ostrich Walk (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca)	2-26-1917	New York, New York	Victor 18457-B
Ostrich Walk (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca)	11-24-1917	New York, New York	Aeolian Vocalion A 1206
Ostrich Walk (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca)	5-12-1919	London, England	Columbia 736
Ostrich Walk Featuring Larry Shields on clarinet (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca)	9-25-1936	New York, New York	Victor 25460-A
Ostrich Walk (B-1) (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore C-612
Ostrich Walk (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca)	10-20-1945	New York, New York	Commodore (G)6.26170
Ostrich Walk (B-TK1) (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore (G)6.26170
Palestreena (Con Conrad / J. Russel Robinson)	12-4-1920	New York, New York	Victor 18717-B
Please Be Kind (Sammy Cahn / Saul Chaplin)	1938	New York, New York	Bluebird B-7442-B
Reisenweber Rag (Original Dixieland Jass Band)	11-24-1917	New York, New York	Aeolian Vocalion 1242
Royal Garden Blues (Clarence Williams / Spencer Williams)	5-25-1921	New York, New York	Victor 18798-B
Satanic Blues (Larry Shields / Emile Christian)	8-13-1919	London, England	Columbia 759
Satanic Blues (Larry Shields / Emile Christian)	2-9-1936	New York, New York	Victor unissued
Sensation Rag (Eddie Edwards)	2-25-1918	New York, New York	Victor 18483-B
Sensation Rag (Eddie Edwards)	5-12-1919	London, England	Columbia 736
Shake It And Break It (Friscoe / Clark)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore C-613
Shake It And Break It (Friscoe / Clark)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore (G)6.26170
Skeleton Jangle (Nick LaRocca)	2-25-1918	New York, New York	Victor 18472-A
Skeleton Jangle (Nick LaRocca)	10-9-1936	New York, New York	Victor 25524
Skeleton Jangle (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore C-611
Skeleton Jangle (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore (G)6.26170
Skeleton Jangle (Larry Shields / Nick LaRocca)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore unissued
Slipping Through My Fingers (Lou Singer / Milton Leeds / Irving Mills)	10-9-1935	New York, New York	Vocalion 3099
Some Of These Days (Shelton Brooks)	1-3-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 4738-A
Soudan (Sebek)	5-14-1920	London, England	Columbia 829
Sphinx (B. Barbour)	5-14-1920	London, England	Columbia 824
St. Louis Blues Vocal Chorus - Al Bernard (W.C. Handy)	5-25-1921	New York, New York	Victor 18772-A
Sweet Mama (Papas Getting Mad) Introducing "Strut, Miss Lizzie (Rose / Little / Frost / Creamer / Layton)	12-30-1920	New York, New York	Victor 18722-B
Tell Me (Max Kortlander)	1-8-1920	London, England	Columbia 804
Tiger Rag (Nick LaRocca)	8-17-1917	New York, New York	Aeolian Vocalion B 1206
Tiger Rag (Nick LaRocca)	2-25-1918	New York, New York	Victor 18472-B
Tiger Rag (Nick LaRocca)	5-19-1919	London, England	Columbia 748
Tiger Rag (Nick LaRocca)	4-20-1923	New York, New York	Okeh 4841
Tiger Rag featuring Larry Shields on clarinet (Nick LaRocca)	10-9-1936	New York, New York	Victor 25524-A
Tiger Rag (Nick LaRocca)	9-2-1936	New York, New York	Victor unissued
Tiger Rag (Nick LaRocca)	12-30-1943	New York, New York	V-Disc 214
Tiger Rag (1) (Nick LaRocca)	10-20-1945	New York, New York	Commodore (G)6.26170
Tiger Rag (2) (Nick LaRocca)	10-20-1945	New York, New York	Commodore unissued
Tiger Rag (Nick LaRocca)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore C-610
Toddlin' Blues (Nick LaRocca)	11-23-1922	New York, New York	Okeh 4738-B
Toddlin' Blues (Nick LaRocca)	9-25-1936	New York, New York	Victor 25460-B
When You And I Were Young Maggie (J.A. Butterfield)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore C-613
When You And I Were Young Maggie (J.A. Butterfield)	4-6-1946	New York, New York	Commodore (G)6.26170
Who Loves You? Featuring Nick La Rocca on the Trumpet Vocal refrain by Chris Fletcher (B. Davis / J. Fred Coots)	9-25-1936	New York, New York	Victor 25420-A
You Stayed Away Too Long	10-9-1935	New York, New York	Vocalion 3099

Artist	Instrument
Lola Bard	Vocals
Al Bernadi	Vocals
Clifford Cairns	Vocals
Bob Casey	Bass
Emile Christian	Trombone
Eddie Conson	Guitar
Wild Bill Davidson	Trumpet
Eddie Edwards	Trombone
Brad Gowans	Clarinet
Bobby Hackett	Cornet
Billy Jones	Piano
Max Kaminsky	Trumpet
Eddie King	Vocals
Benny Krueger	Alto Saxophone
Nick La Rocca	Cornet
Jack Lesberg	Bass
Yellow Nuńez	Clarinet
Don Parker	Saprano Saxophone
Henry Ragas	Piano
J. Russel Robinson	Piano
Teddy Roy	Piano
Tony Sbarbaro (a.k.a. Tony Spargo)	Drums, Kazoo
Gene Schroeder	Piano
Artie Seaberg	Clarinet
Larry Shields	Clarinet
Frank Signorelli	Piano
Henry Vanicelli	Piano

First New York ad for the Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Original Dixieland Jass Band

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Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a New Orleans, Dixieland Jazz band that made the first jazz recordings early in 1917, their "Livery Stable Blues" became the first issued Jazz single.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Original Dixieland Jazz Band
A 1918 promotional postcard showing (from left), drummer Tony Sbarbaro (aka Tony Spargo), trombonist Edwin "Daddy" Edwards, cornetist Dominick James "Nick" LaRocca , clarinetist Larry Shields and pianist Henry Ragas.
Background information
Origin	New Orleans, Louisiana
Genres	Jazz
Years active	1916–1925, 1936

The group composed and made the first recordings of many jazz standards, the most famous being "Tiger Rag". In late 1917 it changed the name to "Jazz."

The band consisted of five musicians who had previously played in the Papa Jack Lainebands, a diverse and racially integrated collection of musicians who played for parades,dances, and advertising in New Orleans.

The ODJB were frequently billed as the "Creators of Jazz", because they were the first band to record jazz commercially and to have hit recordings in the new genre. The appellation is accurate in that they were the first band to create successful and popular recordings of jazz. Band leader and trumpeter Nick LaRocca argued that the ODJB deserved recognition as the first band to record jazz commercially and the first band to establish jazz as a musical idiom or genre.