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Jazz; performed by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Production notes: Originally recorded Feb. 26, 1917-July 17, 1918, in New York. Dixie Jass Band one-step --Livery stable blues --Skeleton jangle ...

One hundred years ago this week, five New Orleans musicians made the first recording of a new genre of music unknown to most of the nation. “Livery Stable Blues,” the first studio number scratched ...

“Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation . . . We are musical anarchists.” Thus Cornetist Nick LaRocca defined the new music he and other members of the Original Dixieland ...

CHILLICOTHE― Ohio's first and third capital is home to one of the oldest Dixieland jazz bands in the country, The Goosetown Astonishers― a band that is historic and unique, much like Chillicothe. The ...