The first jazz recording

1917: Number 4 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicJazz had been evolving for almost a decade before it was recorded – and a white New Orleans band called the Original Dixieland Jazz Band beat all the superior Southland black bands to it. The ODJB were a raucous but lively five-piece influenced by the sound of Louis Armstrong mentor King Oliver's New Orleans groups. In 1917, following a successful New York run, the band cut tracks in the Victor studios that sold mas...

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