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 ...

This is the first in a series of programs that will play representative music from 100 years of jazz history. We will explore the broad sweep of that narrative; its representative and its ...

Fortnight ago in the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans two oldtime jazzists, one with a trumpet, the other with a clarinet, stepped into the spotlight, played with such authentic abandon, such valid ...

New Orleans trumpet player and composer Jimmy LaRocca died over the weekend. Jimmy‘s father, also a trumpet player, Nick LaRocca, was the leader of The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first recorded ...

The single “Original Dixieland One-Step,” from Firecracker Jazz Band’s new album, Return to the Twenties, was filmed at Echo Mountain Recording while tracking that project. The song, first recorded by ...

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 ...