00:00The original Dixieland Jazz Band was originally an offshoot of Stein's Dixieland Jazz Band,
00:08and started out under the leadership of cornetist Nick LaRocca.
00:13By 1917, the band had moved from Chicago to New York,
00:18where in February of that year, they would make the first ever jazz recording,
00:23livery-stable blues.
00:26Dixie Jazz Band One-Step, for the Victor label.
00:31The recording was a huge commercial success,
00:35and it introduced jazz to a nationwide audience.
00:38The huge sales of that first recording motivated other record labels to record jazz,
00:44and thus sparked the spread of the music.
00:48The initial incarnation of the original Dixieland Jazz Band
00:53recorded several other excellent sides, including the following,
00:59Darktown Strutter's Ball,
01:01Ostrich Walk,
01:03and Tiger Rag.
01:05Their music was typical early Dixieland jazz,
01:08but the ODJB had some of the finest musicians in jazz music at the time,
01:16including LaRocca on cornet,
01:18Daddy Edwards on trombone,
01:21Henry Ragus on piano,
01:24and Larry Shields on clarinet.
01:27The ODJB was a white band,
01:31and LaRocca was a proud member of the white race,
01:35who always maintained that it was not African Americans who had created jazz,
01:41but white musicians.
01:44LaRocca's overt racism has probably hurt the reputation of the ODJB,
01:49and encouraged many observers to write them off
01:52as simply a bunch of second-rate, white musicians,
01:56who only had the opportunity to make the first jazz recording
02:01due to the institutionalized racism of the time.
02:05However, this is clearly not the case.
02:09Freddie Keppert,
02:11an African American cornetist,
02:13turned down the opportunity
02:14to make the first jazz recording in 1916.
02:18The original Dixieland Jazz Band
02:21reunited several times in the 1930s
02:24and toured Europe.
02:27Drummer Tony Sparrow
02:28was the only original member
02:31of the band
02:33to appear on all the band's recordings
02:35between 1917
02:38and 1938.
02:42Several compilations of the ODJB's early sides
02:45can be found,
02:46including the following.
02:48The complete, original Dixieland Jazz Band
02:521917-1938
02:55from 1995.
02:58The ODJB also appears on
03:00several compilations of early,
03:03classic,
03:04recorded jazz.
03:05The ODJB.
03:06Tapinta to the ODJB.
03:09Thank you,
03:10Mr Gracieland.
03:10See you soon,
03:16we'll see you soon.
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03:24and you may almost
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03:26and accented
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03:28and the lowį»
03:31the ODJB.
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